Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Emmersion vs Retorio
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
Emmersion and Retorio tie at 44.
Emmersion and Retorio tie at 44 under rubric v1.0 inside the Assessment cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Emmersion leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Retorio 2, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Emmersion 28, Retorio 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 88% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Emmersion4
- Retorio2
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency28 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Emmersion and Retorio are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Emmersion | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight40% of the movement so far
Emmersion28Retorio402.2 weighted points to Retorio
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight66% of the movement so far
Emmersion57Retorio501.4 weighted points to Emmersion
- 3
Customer Documentation
8% weight81% of the movement so far
Emmersion60Retorio500.8 weighted points to Emmersion
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight92% of the movement so far
Emmersion38Retorio330.6 weighted points to Emmersion
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Emmersion50Retorio520.3 weighted points to Retorio
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Emmersion53Retorio520.1 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Retorio, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 44F | 44F | - | +0.5 |
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 | Emmersion | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 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 |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 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 Emmersion and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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