§ The result
Maki People leads Versant by Pearson on all 7 criteria.
The Assessment cohort pairing of Maki People and Versant by Pearson comes out 67 (D) to 49 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 18-point lead for Maki People. Maki People takes all 7 criteria and Versant by Pearson none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Maki People 64 to Versant by Pearson 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, Versant by Pearson 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% 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
Versant by Pearson
Versant by Pearson is a suite of AI-scored English proficiency tests (plus spoken Spanish, French, Arabic and Dutch) that automatically score candidates' spoken and written responses on Pearson's Global Scale of English within minutes, used by employers such as contact centres and BPOs to screen applicants and benchmark staff through the ScoreKeeper dashboard.
§ The record
Maki People and Versant by Pearson 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 | Versant by Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | GB |
| Founded | 2021 | 1844 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Versant by Pearson 42
6.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Versant by Pearson 30
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Versant by Pearson 53
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Versant by Pearson 43
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Versant by Pearson 56
1.2 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Versant by Pearson 61
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Versant by Pearson 63
0.2 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 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 +17.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Versant by Pearson.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Versant by Pearson | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 63 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 42 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 30 | +32 | +4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 53 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 56 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 43 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 61 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 49 (F) | +18 | +17.2 |
§ 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 | Versant by Pearson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 23 | 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; Versant by Pearson has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Versant by Pearson sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 29 for Versant by Pearson, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Versant by Pearson last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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