§ The result
Dayforce leads Retorio on all 7 criteria.
Dayforce sits 13 points above Retorio under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 44 — with Dayforce filed under ATS-integrated and Retorio under Assessment. Dayforce leads every one of the 7 criteria, Retorio none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Dayforce 42 to Retorio 40. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Dayforce 74, Retorio 50, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and 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
Dayforce 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 | Dayforce | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1992 | 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
Dayforce 74 · Retorio 50
4.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Retorio 52
1.9 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Retorio 33
1.7 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Retorio 52
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Retorio 50
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Retorio 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Retorio 40
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.5 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 +13.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 50 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 52 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 44 (F) | +13 | +13.5 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce 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 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 Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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