§ The result
Maki People leads UKG by 18 points.
Maki People finishes 18 points clear of UKG under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 44 (F) — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while UKG leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Maki People holds across the 6 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, UKG under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
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 | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · UKG 30
9.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · UKG 35
3.3 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · UKG 48
2.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · UKG 38
1.7 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · UKG 55
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 62 · UKG 56
0.9 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 50 · UKG 52
0.2 weighted points to UKG
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.1 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 +18.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 30 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 35 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 44 (F) | +18 | +18.6 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Maki People has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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