§ The result
Maki People leads Recruit CRM on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Maki People (Assessment) and Recruit CRM (ATS-integrated): 67 (D) for Maki People, 40 (F) for Recruit CRM. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Recruit CRM leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Maki People 80, Recruit CRM 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Maki People is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Maki People | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Recruit CRM 20
10.8 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Recruit CRM 34
6.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Recruit CRM 34
4.2 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Recruit CRM 42
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Recruit CRM 54
1.5 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Recruit CRM 60
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Recruit CRM 58
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +26.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.1 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 +26.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 34 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 20 | +60 | +10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 34 | +28 | +4.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 60 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 40 (F) | +27 | +26.1 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 30 | 5 | Sources 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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