§ The result
Eightfold AI takes the total, Maki People takes more of the criteria.
Eightfold AI (Sourcing) edges Maki People (Assessment) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 64 to 62. Maki People leads more of the criteria than Eightfold AI — 4 to 3 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which Eightfold AI leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Eightfold AI. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Eightfold AI 75, Maki People 62 — and at a 20% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
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
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Maki People is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Eightfold AI | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2016 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Maki People 62
2.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Maki People 57
1.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Maki People 50
1.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Maki People 80
0.9 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Eightfold AI 60 · Maki People 70
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Maki People 62
0.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Maki People 52
0.2 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 62 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 80 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 57 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 62 (D) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | 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 |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 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 Eightfold AI and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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