§ The result
Test Partnership leads Manatal by 9 points.
Test Partnership scores 50 and Manatal 41 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Test Partnership leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Manatal leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Test Partnership (Manatal 33, Test Partnership 57), 45% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Bias Audit Transparency, Manatal 22 to Test Partnership 48.
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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Manatal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Test Partnership under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Manatal | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | TH | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · Test Partnership 57
4.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · Test Partnership 48
4.7 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · Test Partnership 33
1.2 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · Test Partnership 57
0.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · Test Partnership 36
0.4 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · Test Partnership 58
0.2 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -9.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -9.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 57 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 48 | -26 | -4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 36 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 33 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 50 (F) | -9 | -9.2 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | Sources 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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