§ The result
Maki People leads Employment Hero on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 19 points clear of Employment Hero under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 48 (F) — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria, Employment Hero none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Employment Hero 62 to Maki People 66. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, Maki People 80) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
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
Employment Hero 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, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | FR |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Maki People 80
8.1 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Maki People 62
4.5 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Maki People 64
2.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Maki People 64
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Maki People 74
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Maki People 55
0.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 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 -18.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 80 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 62 | -30 | -4.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 64 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 74 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 67 (D) | -19 | -18.6 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 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 Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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