§ The result
Maki People leads ZipRecruiter on all 7 criteria.
Maki People (Assessment) and ZipRecruiter (Sourcing) are 27 points apart under rubric v1.0, 67 (D) for Maki People against 40 (F) for ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter leads none of the 7 criteria, and Maki People is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Maki People 80, ZipRecruiter 24, 18% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage Maki People builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing 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 | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · ZipRecruiter 24
10.1 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 62 · ZipRecruiter 27
5.3 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 64 · ZipRecruiter 40
4.8 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 64 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.8 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 55 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.8 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 74 · ZipRecruiter 54
1.6 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Maki People 66 · ZipRecruiter 55
1.3 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +26.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +26.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 64 | 40 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 24 | +56 | +10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 62 | 27 | +35 | +5.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 52 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 74 | 54 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 40 (F) | +27 | +26.7 |
§ 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 | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 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 | 28 | 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; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Maki People and ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Maki People, across 5 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- September 8, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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