§ The result
Maki People leads Spark Hire by 9 points.
Maki People scores 62 (D) and Spark Hire 53 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Video interview cohorts. Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Spark Hire leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Maki People 57, Spark Hire 30, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 38% 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Maki People | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 34% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · Spark Hire 30
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Spark Hire 62
3.2 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · Spark Hire 38
1.7 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 50 · Spark Hire 62
1.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · Spark Hire 58
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · Spark Hire 64
0.5 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 62 · Spark Hire 60
0.3 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 62 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 30 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 64 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 53 (F) | +9 | +9.1 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Maki People has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next