§ The result
Paylocity takes the total, Manatal takes more of the criteria.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Paylocity edges Manatal by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 43 to 41. Manatal leads more of the criteria than Paylocity — 4 to 3 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which Paylocity leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Paylocity. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Manatal 33, Paylocity 44 — and at a 20% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
§ The record
Manatal and Paylocity are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Manatal | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | TH | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · Paylocity 44
2.2 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · Paylocity 33
2.0 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · Paylocity 50
1.2 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · Paylocity 30
0.4 weighted points to Manatal
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Manatal 62 · Paylocity 58
0.3 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · Paylocity 54
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · Paylocity 42
0.1 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 44 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 33 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 42 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 43 (F) | -2 | -2.4 |
§ 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 | Manatal | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Manatal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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