§ The result
SEEK leads Manatal by 13 points.
SEEK, filed under Screening, comes out 13 points above Manatal, filed under ATS-integrated: 54 against 41 under rubric v1.0. SEEK leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Manatal leads 1, including FRIA Support. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Manatal 33, SEEK 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage SEEK holds across the 6 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
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Manatal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
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 | Manatal | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | TH | AU |
| Founded | 2019 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · SEEK 70
7.4 weighted points to SEEK
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · SEEK 40
3.2 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · SEEK 60
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · SEEK 50
0.8 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · SEEK 62
0.2 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Manatal 62 · SEEK 64
0.2 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · SEEK 32
0.1 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 70 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 32 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 50 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 54 (F) | -13 | -12.9 |
§ 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 | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Manatal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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