§ The result
BrightHire leads Retorio on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire scores 51 and Retorio 44 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. BrightHire is ahead of Retorio on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Article 11 Technical Documentation at BrightHire 52 to Retorio 50. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (BrightHire 62, Retorio 50) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (BrightHire 50, Retorio 40), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire 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 | BrightHire | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Retorio 40
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Retorio 52
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Retorio 33
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Retorio 52
1.0 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Retorio 50
1.0 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Retorio 30
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Retorio 50
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.3 — 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 +7 beside that +7.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 44 (F) | +7 | +7.3 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next