§ The result
HiBob leads Manatal by 5 points.
HiBob scores 46 and Manatal 41 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Manatal takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for HiBob, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiBob 55, Manatal 33 — and at a 20% weight it carries 70% of the weighted advantage HiBob holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
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
HiBob and Manatal are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Manatal is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiBob | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | TH |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiBob 55 · Manatal 33
4.4 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiBob 57 · Manatal 52
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiBob 47 · Manatal 43
0.5 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiBob 20 · Manatal 22
0.4 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiBob 63 · Manatal 60
0.4 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiBob 35 · Manatal 33
0.3 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiBob 61 · Manatal 62
0.1 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiBob minus Manatal.
| Category | Weight | HiBob | Manatal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 43 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 62 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 41 (F) | +5 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | HiBob | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains, and 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next