§ The result
HiringBranch leads Retorio on 6 of the 7 criteria.
HiringBranch scores 52 and Retorio 44 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the Assessment cohort. HiringBranch leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Retorio is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 HiringBranch leads is Data Governance Disclosure, HiringBranch 55 to Retorio 52. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, Retorio 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
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
HiringBranch and Retorio are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | DE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Retorio 40
3.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Retorio 50
2.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Retorio 50
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Retorio 33
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Retorio 30
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Retorio 52
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 44 (F) | +8 | +8.8 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next