§ The result
Maki People leads Korn Ferry by 16 points.
Maki People finishes 16 points clear of Korn Ferry inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 46 (F). Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Korn Ferry leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Korn Ferry 48, Maki People 80, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
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
Korn Ferry 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 | Korn Ferry | Maki People |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 1969 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Maki People 80
5.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Maki People 57
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Maki People 52
2.3 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Maki People 62
1.5 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Maki People 70
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Maki People 62
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Maki People 50
0.2 weighted points to Korn Ferry
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Maki People.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Maki People | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 80 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 57 | -32 | -4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 52 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 70 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 62 (D) | -16 | -16.3 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | Maki People | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 0 | 1 | — | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next