§ The result
Retorio leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Assessment entries Retorio and Cognisess at 44 and 30, a gap of 14 points. Retorio takes all 7 criteria and Cognisess none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, Cognisess 32 to Retorio 33. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Cognisess 25, Retorio 50, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cognisess
UK talent-analytics platform that scores candidates and employees with 50+ game-based and questionnaire assessments and weighted job-fit 'profilers', can auto-pass or auto-reject applicants against score thresholds, and runs recorded video interviews with optional DeepLearn video analytics.
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
Cognisess and Retorio are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cognisess | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | DE |
| Founded | 2011 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cognisess 25 · Retorio 50
5.0 weighted points to Retorio
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cognisess 20 · Retorio 40
3.6 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cognisess 20 · Retorio 30
1.5 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cognisess 42 · Retorio 52
1.5 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cognisess 42 · Retorio 52
1.2 weighted points to Retorio
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cognisess 40 · Retorio 50
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cognisess 32 · Retorio 33
0.1 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cognisess minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Cognisess | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -13.7 |
§ 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 | Cognisess | 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 | — | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | 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 |
Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 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 Cognisess and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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