Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Handshake vs Maki People
Handshake
Handshake is an early-career recruiting network whose employer tools use AI to rank applicants against employer-set criteria, find and message matching students and graduates, and target job promotions.
Substantial gaps
Screening
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.
Concerning
Assessment
The result
Maki People leads Handshake on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 17 points clear of Handshake under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 50 (F) — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria, Handshake none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Handshake 57 to Maki People 64. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap (Handshake 30, Maki People 62) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Handshake 52, Maki People 80), 30% of the weighted advantage Maki People builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Handshake0
- Maki People7
- Widest raw gap
- FRIA Support30 vs 62
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Handshake is filed under Screening AI, Maki People under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Maki People is in scope of
| Record | Handshake | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight30% of the movement so far
Handshake52Maki People805.0 weighted points to Maki People
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight58% of the movement so far
Handshake30Maki People624.8 weighted points to Maki People
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight77% of the movement so far
Handshake48Maki People643.2 weighted points to Maki People
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight83% of the movement so far
Handshake60Maki People741.1 weighted points to Maki People
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight89% of the movement so far
Handshake57Maki People641.1 weighted points to Maki People
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Handshake58Maki People661.0 weighted points to Maki People
- 7
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Handshake48Maki People550.8 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Handshake minus Maki People, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Handshake | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 64 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 52 | 80 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 62 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 74 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 50F | 67D | -17 | -17.0 |
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 | Handshake | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Handshake has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 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 Handshake and Maki People sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Handshake, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Handshake last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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