§ The result
Hireology leads Retorio on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Hireology, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Retorio, filed under Assessment: 57 against 44 under rubric v1.0. Retorio is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Hireology takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is FRIA Support, Hireology 35 to Retorio 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Hireology 83, Retorio 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage Hireology holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Hireology
Hireology is an applicant tracking and hiring platform for multi-location auto dealers, healthcare providers and hospitality operators. Its AI features score applicants against employer-defined criteria (AI Match) and run rubric-scored, voice-based first-round screening interviews (AI Interview).
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
Hireology 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 | Hireology | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2010 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Hireology 83 · Retorio 40
7.7 weighted points to Hireology
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Hireology 59 · Retorio 33
3.1 weighted points to Hireology
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hireology 35 · Retorio 30
0.8 weighted points to Hireology
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Hireology 58 · Retorio 50
0.6 weighted points to Hireology
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hireology 57 · Retorio 52
0.6 weighted points to Hireology
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +12.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.8 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 +12.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hireology minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Hireology | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 40 | +43 | +7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 59 | 33 | +26 | +3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 44 (F) | +13 | +12.8 |
§ 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 | Hireology | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 25 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Hireology has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 4 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 Hireology and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Hireology, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hireology last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next