§ The result
Retorio leads HeroHunt.ai by 14 points.
Retorio, filed under Assessment, comes out 14 points above HeroHunt.ai, filed under Sourcing: 44 against 30 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Retorio: Retorio is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and HeroHunt.ai on Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeroHunt.ai 20, Retorio 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
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
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Retorio is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | DE |
| Founded | 2021 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Retorio 50
6.0 weighted points to Retorio
18% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Retorio 40
5.4 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Retorio 52
1.1 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Retorio 33
0.6 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Retorio 30
0.4 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Retorio 52
0.4 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 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 -13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.0 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 -13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 50 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 40 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -13.3 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | 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% | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 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 |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 HeroHunt.ai and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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