§ The result
Maki People leads RippleMatch on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 21 points clear of RippleMatch under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Maki People takes all 7 criteria and RippleMatch none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Maki People 66 to RippleMatch 57. Even FRIA Support, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Maki People 62, RippleMatch 27, 15% weight), is only 26% of the weighted advantage Maki People builds 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
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Scheduling and 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 | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 26% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · RippleMatch 27
5.3 weighted points to Maki People
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · RippleMatch 53
4.9 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · RippleMatch 46
3.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · RippleMatch 37
2.2 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · RippleMatch 50
2.1 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · RippleMatch 60
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · RippleMatch 57
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +20.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 46 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 53 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 27 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 57 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 37 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 60 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 46 (F) | +21 | +20.2 |
§ 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 | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 35 | 7 | 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; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next