§ The result
Bryq leads Retorio on all 7 criteria.
Bryq sits 13 points above Retorio under rubric v1.0, 57 against 44, with both filed under Assessment. Bryq leads every one of the 7 criteria, Retorio none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Bryq 54 to Retorio 52. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 70, Retorio 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
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
Bryq and Retorio are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Retorio 40
5.4 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Retorio 33
2.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Retorio 30
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Retorio 52
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Retorio 50
1.3 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Retorio 50
0.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Retorio 52
0.2 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 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 +13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 40 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 44 (F) | +13 | +13.4 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | 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 |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 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 Bryq and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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