§ The result
hackajob takes the total, Manatal takes more of the criteria.
hackajob (Sourcing) edges Manatal (ATS-integrated) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 45 to 41. Manatal leads more of the criteria than hackajob — 5 to 2 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which hackajob leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to hackajob. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 60, Manatal 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 86% of the weighted advantage hackajob holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Vendor profile
Manatal
Cloud-based applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM for agencies and HR teams, featuring an AI engine that scores and ranks candidates against job requirements and an asynchronous AI video Interviewer.
§ The record
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Manatal under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Manatal is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | hackajob | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | TH |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hackajob 60 · Manatal 33
5.4 weighted points to hackajob
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hackajob 58 · Manatal 52
0.9 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hackajob 55 · Manatal 60
0.6 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hackajob 38 · Manatal 43
0.6 weighted points to Manatal
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hackajob 20 · Manatal 22
0.4 weighted points to Manatal
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hackajob 60 · Manatal 62
0.2 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hackajob 32 · Manatal 33
0.1 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Manatal.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Manatal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 43 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 41 (F) | +4 | +4.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | hackajob | Manatal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Manatal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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