§ The result
Maki People leads SEEK by 13 points.
Maki People, filed under Assessment, comes out 13 points above SEEK, filed under Screening: 67 (D) against 54 (F) under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Maki People: Maki People is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and SEEK on Article 11 Technical Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, SEEK 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 6 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
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | AU |
| Founded | 2021 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · SEEK 40
7.2 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · SEEK 32
4.5 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · SEEK 70
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · SEEK 64
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · SEEK 60
0.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · SEEK 50
0.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · SEEK 62
0.5 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 70 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 40 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 32 | +30 | +4.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 64 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 54 (F) | +13 | +13.0 |
§ 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 | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 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; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and SEEK 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 SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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