§ The result
Maki People leads Paycom by 12 points.
Maki People sits 12 points above Paycom under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 50 (F) — with Maki People filed under Assessment and Paycom under ATS-integrated. Maki People leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Paycom leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, Paycom 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 4 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
Paycom
Paycom is a single-database human capital management and payroll platform whose applicant tracking system automates recruiting with resume parsing, keyword/knockout candidate filtering, automated correspondence, generative job-description writing, and a command-driven AI data-query engine (IWant).
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Paycom under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Maki People is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Maki People | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Paycom 38
7.6 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · Paycom 30
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · Paycom 38
1.7 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · Paycom 68
1.2 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · Paycom 60
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 50 · Paycom 55
0.6 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 68 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 38 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 30 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 50 (F) | +12 | +12.3 |
§ 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 | Maki People | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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% | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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