§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Retorio on all 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex), filed under Video interview, comes out 13 points above Retorio, filed under Assessment: 57 against 44 under rubric v1.0. Of the 7 criteria Retorio wins none, and the narrowest lead Apriora (Alex) holds is on Article 11 Technical Documentation, Apriora (Alex) 52 to Retorio 50. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, Retorio 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Retorio 40
7.7 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Retorio 33
1.7 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Retorio 30
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Retorio 52
1.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Retorio 50
1.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Retorio 50
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Retorio 52
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 40 | +43 | +7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 44 (F) | +13 | +13.2 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next