§ The result
Maki People leads Emmersion on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Maki People opens a 23-point lead on Emmersion, 67 (D) to 44 (F), with both scored in the Assessment cohort. Of the 7 criteria Emmersion wins none, and the narrowest lead Maki People holds is on Article 11 Technical Documentation, Emmersion 57 to Maki People 64. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Emmersion 28, Maki People 80) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
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
Emmersion 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 | Emmersion | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2015 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Maki People 80
9.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Maki People 62
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Maki People 64
2.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Maki People 55
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Maki People 66
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Maki People 64
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · Maki People 74
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -22.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 80 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 62 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 66 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 74 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 67 (D) | -23 | -22.4 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | 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 |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 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 Emmersion and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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