§ The result
Maki People leads Bryq by 5 points.
Maki People scores 62 (D) and Bryq 57 (F) under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. Maki People leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Bryq leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 40, Maki People 57 — and at a 15% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq and Maki People are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2017 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 36% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Maki People 57
2.5 weighted points to Maki People
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Maki People 80
1.8 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Maki People 62
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Maki People 50
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Maki People 52
0.4 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Maki People 70
0.3 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 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 -5.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 80 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 57 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 70 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 62 (D) | -5 | -5.4 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | 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 |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 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 Bryq and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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