§ The result
Maki People leads Vervoe by 16 points.
Maki People finishes 16 points clear of Vervoe inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 46 (F). Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Vervoe leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: FRIA Support (Maki People 57, Vervoe 25) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Maki People 80, Vervoe 52), the second being 28% 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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
§ The record
Maki People and Vervoe 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 | Vervoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | AU |
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Vervoe 52
5.0 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · Vervoe 25
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · Vervoe 45
3.4 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · Vervoe 28
2.9 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 50 · Vervoe 60
1.2 weighted points to Vervoe
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 62 · Vervoe 55
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · Vervoe 58
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Vervoe.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Vervoe | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 52 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 25 | +32 | +4.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 58 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 46 (F) | +16 | +16.9 |
§ 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 | Vervoe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 15 | 5 | 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; Vervoe has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Vervoe, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vervoe last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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