§ The result
Manatal leads Zappyhire by 7 points.
Manatal scores 41 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Manatal leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Zappyhire leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Manatal 62, Zappyhire 45) and Post-Market Monitoring at 12% (Manatal 43, Zappyhire 28), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage Manatal 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Manatal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Manatal | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | TH | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Manatal 43 · Zappyhire 28
1.8 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Manatal 52 · Zappyhire 42
1.5 weighted points to Manatal
8% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Manatal 62 · Zappyhire 45
1.4 weighted points to Manatal
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Manatal 33 · Zappyhire 25
1.2 weighted points to Manatal
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Manatal 60 · Zappyhire 50
1.2 weighted points to Manatal
18% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Manatal 22 · Zappyhire 28
1.1 weighted points to Zappyhire
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Manatal 33 · Zappyhire 30
0.6 weighted points to Manatal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Manatal minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Manatal | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 25 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 28 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 34 (F) | +7 | +6.6 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Manatal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Manatal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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