§ The result
3 points separate Retorio and eSkill.
Retorio holds a 3-point edge over eSkill under rubric v1.0, 44 to 41, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to eSkill and Retorio, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Retorio holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — eSkill 25, Retorio 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 70% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
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
eSkill and Retorio are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | eSkill | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2003 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Retorio 40
2.7 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Retorio 52
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Retorio 52
0.6 weighted points to eSkill
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Retorio 50
0.5 weighted points to eSkill
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Retorio 50
0.4 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Retorio 33
0.4 weighted points to eSkill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 52 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 33 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 44 (F) | -3 | -2.4 |
§ 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 | eSkill | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | 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 |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 eSkill and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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