§ The result
Maki People leads Braintrust AIR by 8 points.
Maki People scores 67 (D) and Braintrust AIR 59 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Braintrust AIR leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, FRIA Support, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 35, Maki People 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
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
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 42% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Maki People 62
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Maki People 64
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Maki People 64
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Maki People 80
0.9 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Maki People 74
0.9 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Maki People 55
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Maki People 66
0.5 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 80 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 62 | -27 | -4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 64 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 74 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 67 (D) | -8 | -7.9 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 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 Braintrust AIR and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next