§ The result
Maki People leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
Maki People (Assessment) and Paycor (ATS-integrated) are 27 points apart under rubric v1.0, 67 (D) for Maki People against 40 (F) for Paycor. Paycor leads none of the 7 criteria, and Maki People is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. The advantage Maki People holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Maki People 80, Paycor 25, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Maki People gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
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 | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Paycor 25
9.9 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Paycor 27
5.3 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Paycor 40
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Paycor 50
2.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Paycor 38
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Paycor 55
1.5 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Paycor 55
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +26.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +26.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 40 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 25 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 27 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 55 | +19 | +1.5 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 40 (F) | +27 | +26.9 |
§ 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 | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Maki People has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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