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Maki focuses on hiring quality. Phenom spreads across the HR suite.
Focused on hiring quality with science-backed automation, not a broad HR suite that slows implementation.
Overview
Phenom offers a broad HR and talent experience suite spanning career sites, CRM, mobility, and analytics. It’s powerful but heavy, best suited for multi-month enterprise rollouts.
Maki takes a different approach. It focuses on AI recruiting and assessment, delivering end-to-end automation, transparent scoring, and validated science that helps teams hire smarter, faster, and fairer.
Where Phenom predicts fit from résumés and historical data, Maki measures real skills and potential, connecting every interview, assessment, and outcome in a single, learning loop.
Ideal customer
Phenom suits large enterprises seeking a full HR ecosystem across acquisition, engagement, and internal mobility.
Maki is built for teams that prioritize hiring performance, those needing a scalable, AI-native system that’s easy to deploy, deeply scientific, and compliant out of the box.
If Phenom helps you manage everything, Maki helps you hire brilliantly, with measurable quality, speed, and fairness.
Feature comparison
Scope
Broad HR and talent experience suite
AI use
Matching, fit scores, video analytics
Assessments
Limited depth, résumé-based fit
Implementation
Multi-month enterprise rollout
Candidate experience
One-way video & chat
Feedback & transparency
Black-box scoring
Automation
CRM & scheduling workflows
Compliance
GDPR, EEOC
Scope
Specialized AI recruiting & assessment platform
AI use
Multi-agent automation & compound learning
Assessments
300+ validated, job-specific skill assessments
Implementation
Live in weeks or hours, plug-and-play setup
Candidate experience
Immersive, multilingual, branded experiences
Feedback & transparency
Explainable, skill-based, bias-audited feedback
Automation
CRM & scheduling workflows
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, EU AI Act-ready
Why companies choose Maki
Hiring quality you can prove: Phenom leans on résumé matching and opaque fit scores while Maki measures ability directly across 300+ skills, transparent, validated, and bias-audited
Candidate experience that converts: One-way video leads to drop-off, Maki’s interactive assessments keep completion above 90% while collecting richer behavioral data
Faster time-to-value: Phenom projects can take months to configure, Maki’s modular AI agents, native ATS integrations, and enterprise-grade security let teams go live in days, not quarters
Explainable intelligence: Maki delivers human-readable feedback, showing exactly which skills a candidate demonstrated, helping recruiters make confident, fair, and compliant decisions
Proof in performance
3×
faster interview-to-offer cycles
20–30%
lower turnover in the first 6 months
99%
positive candidate sentiment
45%
faster time-to-hire overall
70%
recruiter time saved
In summary
Phenom connects HR systems. Maki connects intelligence.
With science-backed assessments, transparent automation, and compound learning, Maki transforms hiring into a continuously improving system that grows smarter with every decision.
