§ The result
Maki People leads Stepstone on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 18 points clear of Stepstone under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 49 (F) — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria, Stepstone none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Maki People 66 to Stepstone 58. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap (Maki People 62, Stepstone 30) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Maki People 80, Stepstone 50), 31% 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
Stepstone
Stepstone is a German job marketplace whose Stepstone Recruit employer platform includes an AI Screening Agent, which rates each application against requirements taken from the job ad, and a Talent Finder, which recommends candidates from a CV database of more than 4 million profiles.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Stepstone 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 | Stepstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | DE |
| Founded | 2021 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Stepstone 50
5.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Stepstone 30
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Stepstone 38
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Stepstone 55
1.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Stepstone 55
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Stepstone 58
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Stepstone 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 +17.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Stepstone.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Stepstone | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 50 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 30 | +32 | +4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 58 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 49 (F) | +18 | +17.6 |
§ 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 | Stepstone | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 4 | 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; Stepstone has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Stepstone sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 33 for Stepstone, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Stepstone last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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