§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Manatal by 15 points.
Workday Recruiting AI finishes 15 points clear of Manatal inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 41. Workday Recruiting AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Manatal leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Workday Recruiting AI takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Manatal 33, Workday Recruiting AI 70), which is 47% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, Manatal 22 to Workday Recruiting AI 60.
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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Manatal and Workday Recruiting AI are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Manatal is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Manatal | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | TH | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
7.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
6.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.0 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Manatal 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 70 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 35 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 35 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 56 (F) | -15 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 9 | 2 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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