§ The result
Maki People leads softgarden on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 25 points between Maki People (Assessment) and softgarden (ATS-integrated): 67 (D) for Maki People, 42 (F) for softgarden. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; softgarden leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Maki People 80, softgarden 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 42% 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
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, softgarden 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 | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | DE |
| Founded | 2021 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · softgarden 22
10.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · softgarden 30
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · softgarden 42
4.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · softgarden 54
1.5 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · softgarden 44
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · softgarden 58
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · softgarden 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 +24.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +25 beside that +24.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 42 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 22 | +58 | +10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 30 | +32 | +4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 58 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 42 (F) | +25 | +24.7 |
§ 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 | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Maki People has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 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 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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