§ The result
Maki People leads Testlify on all 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 22 points clear of Testlify inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 67 (D) against 45 (F). Maki People leads every one of the 7 criteria, Testlify none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Maki People 64 to Testlify 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, Testlify 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 7 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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
Maki People and Testlify are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening 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 | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Testlify 30
9.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Testlify 33
4.3 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Testlify 52
2.4 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Testlify 42
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Testlify 55
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Testlify 55
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Testlify 60
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +21.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 52 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 30 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 33 | +29 | +4.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 60 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 45 (F) | +22 | +21.1 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 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 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; Testlify 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 Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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