§ The result
Maki People leads Equalture on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 18 points clear of Equalture inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 44 (F). Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Equalture is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Maki People leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Equalture 55 to Maki People 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Equalture 40, Maki People 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Equalture
Equalture is a game-based pre-employment assessment platform whose short browser games measure candidates' cognitive abilities and behavioural tendencies and convert them into a Fit Score ranked against an employer-specific "Success Profile" derived from that employer's own top performers.
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
Equalture 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 | Equalture | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | FR |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Equalture 40 · Maki People 80
7.2 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Equalture 30 · Maki People 57
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Equalture 45 · Maki People 62
3.4 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Equalture 38 · Maki People 52
1.7 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Equalture 55 · Maki People 62
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Equalture 60 · Maki People 70
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -18.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Equalture minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Equalture | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 80 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 57 | -27 | -4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 62 (D) | -18 | -18.2 |
§ 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 | Equalture | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Equalture has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Equalture, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Equalture last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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