§ The result
Maki People leads Xobin on all 7 criteria.
The Assessment cohort pairing of Maki People and Xobin comes out 67 (D) to 50 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 17-point lead for Maki People. Maki People takes all 7 criteria and Xobin none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Maki People 64 to Xobin 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, Xobin 43 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% 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
Xobin
Xobin is a talent-assessment platform that sells skills, coding, communication and psychometric tests alongside generative-AI answer scoring (AI Evaluate), AI-led interviews, AI proctoring and NURA, an AI recruiting agent that parses resumes, interviews candidates and builds shortlists.
§ The record
Maki People and Xobin 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 | Xobin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | FR | IN |
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Xobin 43
6.7 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · Xobin 35
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · Xobin 38
2.0 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · Xobin 60
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · Xobin 57
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · Xobin 58
1.0 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · Xobin 62
0.4 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Xobin.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Xobin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 43 | +37 | +6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 60 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 50 (F) | +17 | +16.3 |
§ 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 | Xobin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 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 | 27 | 5 | 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; Xobin has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and Xobin sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 32 for Xobin, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Xobin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next