Trust & Security

Enterprise-grade security, ethical AI you can trust

From compliance certifications to bias audits and AI Act readiness, Maki is built on transparency, safety, and fairness.

80+ global enterprises, incl. Fortune 500

Certifications & compliance

ISO 27001

Information security certified. View certificate on our Trust Center.

GDPR & CCPA

Privacy compliance by design. Global data protection standards.

NYC Local Law 144

Independently bias-audited by Holistic AI (Mochi & Shiro, March 2026). View Mochi results · View Shiro results.

EU AI Act alignment

Aligned with the EU AI Act, a legally binding standard for high-risk AI, implemented well ahead of the deadline.

WCAG accessibility

Accessible to every candidate, inclusive by design, WCAG 2.1 AA.

How hiring decisions are made

Maki is decision-support, not decision-making. There is no automatic-rejection feature: Maki scores can never automatically trigger disqualification. No candidate is ever automatically rejected, and any adverse decision requires human review of the full candidate results. A rejection is, in principle, a GDPR Article 22 decision, so it must involve meaningful human intervention by someone with the authority to change it. Every score is traceable to observable behaviour, with a full transcript and rationale.

Secure infrastructure

  • Encryption: End-to-end encryption in transit & at rest.

  • Hosting: Cloud-based, GDPR-compliant data centers.

  • Privacy-first design: Data minimization, purpose limitation.

  • Monitoring: Continuous performance monitoring & alerts.

Bias resistance & fairness

  • Bias audits: Independent bias audits: audited annually by Holistic AI under NYC Local Law 144, across gender and race/ethnicity at standalone and intersectional levels. Mochi results · Shiro results · full signed reports.

  • Science-backed assessments: designed with industrial-organizational psychology principles

  • Candidate fairness: structured, standardized evaluations minimize subjectivity

  • Explainable scoring: clear rationales for outcomes

  • Accessibility & accommodations: WCAG 2.1 AA aligned. Reasonable adjustments, extra time, and written alternatives to spoken tasks are standard, and no candidate is required to take a single experience.

  • Content-only scoring: we evaluate substance, not delivery, pace, or speech patterns. Anchored to behaviourally anchored rating scales (BARS).

Ethical AI standards

  • Transparency: every agent’s decision process documented

  • Human oversight: no automatic rejection. A Maki score never disqualifies a candidate on its own, and a human reviews the full results before any adverse decision.

  • Continuous improvement: feedback loops retrain models safely

  • Accountability: external advisors (Josh Bersin Company, OpenAI, ex-Meta HR, Salesforce) guiding ethics

Candidate experience & accessibility

  • Mobile-first design: agents available on web and phone

  • WCAG compliance: Accessible to candidates with disabilities

  • Multilingual coverage: 25+ languages, accents, cultural contexts

  • Positive impact: up to 99% candidates report improved perception

  • Reasonable adjustments and alternative formats on request

Trust center

Our commitment to security

At Maki, safeguarding your data is our top priority, we embed enterprise-grade IT and AI security into every layer of our platform.