§ The result
Stepstone takes the total, Manatal takes more of the criteria.
Stepstone scores 49 and Manatal 41 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Manatal leads more of the criteria than Stepstone — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Stepstone leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Stepstone. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Manatal 22, Stepstone 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage Stepstone holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
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
Stepstone
Stepstone is a German job marketplace whose Stepstone Recruit employer platform includes an AI Screening Agent, which rates each application against requirements taken from the job ad, and a Talent Finder, which recommends candidates from a CV database of more than 4 million profiles.
§ The record
Manatal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Stepstone 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 | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | TH | DE |
| Founded | 2019 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · Stepstone 50
5.0 weighted points to Stepstone
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · Stepstone 55
4.4 weighted points to Stepstone
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · Stepstone 38
0.6 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · Stepstone 30
0.4 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · Stepstone 55
0.4 weighted points to Stepstone
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Manatal 62 · Stepstone 58
0.3 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · Stepstone 58
0.2 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 55 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 38 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 49 (F) | -8 | -8.3 |
§ 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 | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 4 | 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; Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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