§ The result
Maki People leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 29 points between Maki People (Assessment) and Arya by Leoforce (Sourcing): 67 (D) for Maki People, 38 (F) for Arya by Leoforce. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Arya by Leoforce leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arya by Leoforce 40, Maki People 80, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 25% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arya by Leoforce
Leoforce's AI agents, successors to its long-running Arya matching platform, source candidates from a proprietary talent database, job boards and customers' ATS records, score and rank them for fit, engage them by email and SMS, prescreen career-site visitors and deliver pre-vetted, interview-ready applicants.
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
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Maki People is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2012 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Maki People 80
7.2 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Maki People 64
6.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Maki People 62
5.5 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Maki People 55
3.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Maki People 64
2.4 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Maki People 74
2.2 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Maki People 66
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -28.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -29 beside that -28.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 64 | -34 | -6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 80 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 62 | -37 | -5.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 64 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 66 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 74 | -28 | -2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 67 (D) | -29 | -28.6 |
§ 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 | Arya by Leoforce | 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arya by Leoforce has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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