§ The result
Maki People leads Test Partnership on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Maki People opens a 17-point lead on Test Partnership, 67 (D) to 50 (F), with both scored in the Assessment cohort. Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Test Partnership leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Maki People 80, Test Partnership 48, 18% weight), is only 35% 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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Maki People and Test Partnership are both filed under Assessment 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 | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Test Partnership 48
5.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Test Partnership 36
3.9 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Test Partnership 33
2.6 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Test Partnership 57
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Test Partnership 57
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Test Partnership 58
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Test Partnership 62
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 48 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 36 | +26 | +3.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 62 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 50 (F) | +17 | +16.7 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 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 | 26 | 6 | Sources 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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