§ The result
Retorio leads Emi by 11 points.
Retorio, filed under Assessment, comes out 11 points above Emi, filed under Screening: 44 against 33 under rubric v1.0. Retorio leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Emi leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Retorio holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 28, Retorio 50, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Retorio gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi is filed under Screening AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Emi | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Retorio 50
4.4 weighted points to Retorio
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Retorio 40
4.0 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Retorio 52
1.2 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Retorio 52
1.0 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Retorio 30
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Retorio 33
0.2 weighted points to Emi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Retorio 50
0.2 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 40 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 52 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 52 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 44 (F) | -11 | -11.2 |
§ 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 | Emi | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 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 a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | 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 |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 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 Emi 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 Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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