§ The result
Retorio leads HireQuotient by 10 points.
Retorio sits 10 points above HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 34 — with Retorio filed under Assessment and HireQuotient under Sourcing. Retorio leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while HireQuotient leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 18, Retorio 40, 18% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage Retorio builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | DE |
| Founded | 2021 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Retorio 40
4.0 weighted points to Retorio
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Retorio 50
3.0 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Retorio 52
1.8 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Retorio 30
1.2 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Retorio 52
0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Retorio 33
0.4 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -9.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 40 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 44 (F) | -10 | -9.7 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 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 HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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