§ The result
Maki People leads Mercer | Mettl on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 20 points clear of Mercer | Mettl inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 42 (F). Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Mercer | Mettl leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Maki People 80, Mercer | Mettl 42, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Mercer | Mettl
Mercer | Mettl is an online talent assessment and remote-proctoring platform offering psychometric, aptitude, coding, and skills tests plus AI-assisted exam proctoring and scoring for hiring, certification, and L&D.
§ The record
Maki People and Mercer | Mettl are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Maki People | Mercer | Mettl |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | IN |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Mercer | Mettl 42
6.8 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · Mercer | Mettl 38
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · Mercer | Mettl 28
4.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · Mercer | Mettl 38
1.7 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · Mercer | Mettl 52
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 62 · Mercer | Mettl 55
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 50 · Mercer | Mettl 45
0.6 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Mercer | Mettl.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Mercer | Mettl | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 38 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 42 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 28 | +29 | +4.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 42 (F) | +20 | +20.8 |
§ 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 | Maki People | Mercer | Mettl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Maki People has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Mercer | Mettl has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Mercer | Mettl, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercer | Mettl last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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