§ The result
Retorio leads Brazen by 6 points.
Retorio scores 44 and Brazen 38 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Retorio leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Brazen leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brazen 40, Retorio 50, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2007 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Retorio 50
2.0 weighted points to Retorio
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Retorio 40
1.8 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Retorio 52
1.1 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Retorio 30
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Retorio 52
0.7 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Retorio 33
0.6 weighted points to Brazen
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Retorio 50
0.4 weighted points to Brazen
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 44 (F) | -6 | -5.3 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 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 Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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