§ The result
Maki People leads Apriora (Alex) by 5 points.
Maki People scores 62 (D) and Apriora (Alex) 57 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Video interview cohorts. Maki People leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Apriora (Alex) leads 2, including Human Oversight Design. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Apriora (Alex) 38, Maki People 57, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 32% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Maki People 57
2.9 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Maki People 62
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Maki People 62
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Maki People 50
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Maki People 70
0.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Maki People 52
0.6 weighted points to Maki People
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Maki People 80
0.5 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 80 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 57 | -19 | -2.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 52 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 70 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 62 (D) | -5 | -5.5 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Maki People has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next