§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Manatal on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 21 points clear of Manatal inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 41 (F). SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, Manatal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Manatal 62 to SmartRecruiters 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Manatal 22, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Manatal and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | TH | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · SmartRecruiters 70
7.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Manatal 62 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -21.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 70 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 78 | -56 | -10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 48 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 62 (D) | -21 | -21.7 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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