§ The result
Maki People leads Zoho Recruit on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Maki People finishes 20 points clear of Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 42 (F) — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Maki People leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Maki People leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Maki People 62 to Zoho Recruit 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Maki People 80, Zoho Recruit 24 — 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Maki People is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit 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, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Maki People | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | FR | IN |
| Founded | 2021 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Maki People 80 · Zoho Recruit 24
10.1 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Maki People 57 · Zoho Recruit 30
4.0 weighted points to Maki People
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Maki People 62 · Zoho Recruit 45
3.4 weighted points to Maki People
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Maki People 52 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.4 weighted points to Maki People
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Maki People 62 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.1 weighted points to Maki People
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Maki People 70 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.8 weighted points to Maki People
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +20.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Maki People minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Maki People | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 24 | +56 | +10.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 57 | 30 | +27 | +4.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 42 (F) | +20 | +20.8 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 10 | 7 | 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Maki People, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Maki People last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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