Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
ADP vs Maki People
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Maki People
Maki People is a Paris-based AI hiring platform whose core product is pre-hire assessment and screening of candidate skills, behaviors, and situational judgement at high volume, extended with conversational AI agents for screening, interview support, and scheduling.
Concerning
Assessment
The result
Maki People leads ADP on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 19 points clear of ADP under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 48 (F) — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Of the 7 criteria ADP wins none, and the narrowest lead Maki People holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, ADP 57 to Maki People 64. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (ADP 46, Maki People 80, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- ADP0
- Maki People7
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency46 vs 80
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only Maki People is in scope of
| Record | ADP | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 1949 | 2021 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight33% of the movement so far
ADP46Maki People806.1 weighted points to Maki People
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight61% of the movement so far
ADP28Maki People625.1 weighted points to Maki People
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight73% of the movement so far
ADP53Maki People642.2 weighted points to Maki People
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight81% of the movement so far
ADP55Maki People661.3 weighted points to Maki People
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight88% of the movement so far
ADP58Maki People741.3 weighted points to Maki People
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight94% of the movement so far
ADP45Maki People551.2 weighted points to Maki People
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
ADP57Maki People641.1 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Maki People, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 64 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 80 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 62 | -34 | -5.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 74 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48F | 67D | -19 | -18.3 |
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 | ADP | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Maki People has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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