§ The result
Maki People leads Brainner on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 21 points clear of Brainner under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Brainner wins none, and the narrowest lead Maki People holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Brainner 45 to Maki People 55. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brainner 42, Maki People 80, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
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
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Brainner | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Maki People 80
6.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Maki People 62
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Maki People 64
2.4 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Maki People 66
1.9 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Maki People 64
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Maki People 74
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Maki People 55
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 80 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 62 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 64 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 66 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 74 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 67 (D) | -21 | -20.1 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 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 Brainner and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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