§ The result
4 points separate Maki People and Tezi.
Maki People (Assessment) edges Tezi (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) to 58 (F). Maki People leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Tezi leads 3, including Human Oversight Design. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Maki People 70, Tezi 50) and FRIA Support at 15% (Maki People 57, Tezi 38), the second being 38% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 4 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
Tezi
Tezi's product "Max" is an autonomous AI recruiting agent that sources passive candidates, screens and ranks inbound applications via conversational chat, and schedules interviews, integrating with ATS and calendar tools.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Tezi under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
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 | Tezi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · Tezi 38
2.9 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · Tezi 52
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · Tezi 50
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 50 · Tezi 63
1.6 weighted points to Tezi
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 62 · Tezi 55
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · Tezi 58
0.7 weighted points to Tezi
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Tezi 83
0.5 weighted points to Tezi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Tezi.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Tezi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 83 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 38 | +19 | +2.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 58 (F) | +4 | +4.7 |
§ 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 | Tezi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 3 | 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; Tezi has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Tezi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Tezi, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Tezi last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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