§ The result
Avature leads Retorio on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Avature holds a 4-point edge over Retorio under rubric v1.0, 48 to 44, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Retorio is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Avature takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Avature 32 to Retorio 30. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Avature 60, Retorio 50) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Avature 55, Retorio 50), the second being 21% of the weighted advantage Avature holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avature
Avature is an enterprise talent acquisition and talent management platform (recruiting CRM, ATS, onboarding and internal mobility) with built-in AI for semantic search, explainable weighted candidate matching and ranking, candidate fraud detection and configurable recruiting agents.
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
Avature is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Retorio is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avature | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2004 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Retorio 50
1.0 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Retorio 52
1.0 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Retorio 52
0.9 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · Retorio 33
0.8 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Retorio 50
0.8 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · Retorio 30
0.3 weighted points to Avature
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 44 (F) | +4 | +4.8 |
§ 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 | Avature | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 Avature and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next