§ The result
Maki People leads iMocha by 6 points.
Maki People scores 62 (D) and iMocha 56 (F) under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. Maki People leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while iMocha leads 3, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — iMocha 44, Maki People 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
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
iMocha 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 | iMocha | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | FR |
| Founded | 2015 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Maki People 80
6.5 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Maki People 57
2.9 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Maki People 50
1.7 weighted points to iMocha
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Maki People 62
1.2 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Maki People 62
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Maki People 52
0.5 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Maki People 70
0.3 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 80 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 57 | -19 | -2.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 70 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 62 (D) | -6 | -6.7 |
§ 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 | iMocha | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 21 | 5 | 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 |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 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 iMocha and 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 iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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