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Maki supports hiring decisions. Paradox supports conversations.
Full-spectrum AI screening and skill evaluation designed to support confident hiring decisions, alongside conversational engagement.
Overview
Paradox introduced large-scale conversational recruiting with Olivia, a mobile-first assistant that helps candidates apply, screen, schedule, and communicate via chat.
Maki extends automation beyond conversation. It combines conversational engagement with structured screening, assessments, and scheduling in one unified system, so teams can manage high volumes while collecting consistent, job-relevant skill data.
Where Paradox focuses primarily on automating interactions and logistics, Maki also focuses on evaluation and decision support, using structured skill assessments and AI workflows to help teams monitor and improve hiring outcomes.
Ideal customer
Maki is designed for fast-scaling organizations managing high candidate volumes that need both efficiency and rigor across roles and geographies.
If Paradox helps you engage and move candidates quickly through conversational flows, Maki helps you both engage and understand them through structured, skill-based evaluation while supporting multilingual hiring at scale.
Feature comparison
Scope
Conversational recruiting for high-volume hiring, focused on apply, screening, scheduling, and communication
Assessments
Conversational screening + selected assessment modules such as visual personality assessments, other evaluations can be added via third parties
Scheduling
Automated interview scheduling and coordination handled by Olivia
Interviewing
Chat and video-based screening and interviews embedded in conversational flows
Candidate experience
Mobile-first text and web chat journeys with quick apply and scheduling
Insights
Dashboards and reports on funnel performance, engagement, and automation impact
AI type
Conversational AI assistant optimized for high-volume candidate engagement and logistics
Security
Enterprise security and compliance, including ISO 27001 and NYC Local Law 144
Scope
End-to-end AI hiring suite covering conversational screening, skill assessment, scheduling, and feedback
Assessments
300+ science-backed skill assessments designed and maintained by an in-house science team
Scheduling
Fully autonomous scheduling with ATS sync, including rules, thresholds, and multi-step flows
Interviewing
Conversational and skill-based AI combining chat, voice, simulations, and structured scoring
Candidate experience
Multilingual, branded journeys combining conversational flows with immersive, skill-based tasks
Insights
Analytics that combine funnel performance with skill intelligence and hiring-quality indicators
AI type
Multi-agent AI that orchestrates screening, assessment, and scheduling while learning from outcomes over time
Security
ISO 27001, encrypted EU hosting, GDPR compliance, and alignment with EU AI Act requirements
Why companies choose Maki
From chat to intelligence: Paradox focuses on automating conversations and logistics. Maki complements this with skill-based agents that screen, assess, and provide structured signals to support hiring decisions.
Science meets scale: Maki offers more than 300 structured, science-backed assessments across hard and soft skills, giving teams standardized, comparable data they can use at global scale.
Global and human: Maki supports 45+ languages and fully branded experiences, helping organizations deliver consistent journeys across markets while maintaining a human, candidate-friendly tone.
Continuous learning: By combining conversational data, assessment results, and hiring outcomes, Maki helps organizations build a growing skill-intelligence layer that can improve decision-making over time.
Proof in performance
45%
faster hiring
70%
less recruiter work
95%
candidate satisfaction
In summary
Paradox helps you reach and support candidates quickly through conversational engagement.
Maki adds structured skill assessment, predictive insights, and multilingual automation across the funnel, helping organizations understand and hire the right candidates while maintaining efficiency and consistency at scale.
