§ The result
Maki People leads Tenzo AI by 11 points.
Maki People sits 11 points above Tenzo AI under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 56 (F) — with Maki People filed under Assessment and Tenzo AI under Screening. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Maki People: Maki People is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Tenzo AI on Bias Audit Transparency. FRIA Support is the widest raw gap (Maki People 62, Tenzo AI 40) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Maki People 64, Tenzo AI 45), 34% of the weighted advantage Maki People builds across the 6 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
Tenzo AI
Tenzo AI's AI recruiter, Morgan, screens and interviews applicants by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp or video in 40+ languages, scores them against employer-defined rubrics with fraud and identity checks, schedules next rounds, and writes scores, transcripts and recordings back to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Tenzo AI under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Scheduling and Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Maki People | Tenzo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Tenzo AI 45
3.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Tenzo AI 40
3.3 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Tenzo AI 55
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Tenzo AI 45
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Tenzo AI 62
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Tenzo AI 60
0.7 weighted points to Maki People
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Tenzo AI 83
0.5 weighted points to Tenzo AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Tenzo AI.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Tenzo AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 45 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 83 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 62 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 56 (F) | +11 | +10.8 |
§ 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 | Tenzo AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 30 | 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; Tenzo AI has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Tenzo AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 34 for Tenzo AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tenzo AI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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