§ The result
Maki People leads Bullhorn by 8 points.
Maki People scores 62 (D) and Bullhorn 54 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Maki People leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Bullhorn leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bullhorn 58, Maki People 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bullhorn
Bullhorn is a cloud-based applicant tracking system and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, with AI features (Bullhorn Copilot/Amplify, automation, and Textkernel-powered search and match) that source, screen, and rank candidates against jobs.
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
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
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 | Bullhorn | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 1999 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Maki People 80
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Maki People 57
2.9 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Maki People 52
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Maki People 50
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bullhorn 60 · Maki People 70
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Maki People 62
0.3 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 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 -8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 80 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 57 | -19 | -2.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 52 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 62 (D) | -8 | -8.8 |
§ 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 | Bullhorn | 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 domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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