§ The result
Retorio leads RecruitBot by 7 points.
Retorio scores 44 and RecruitBot 37 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Retorio leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while RecruitBot leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation, at 20%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Retorio (RecruitBot 33, Retorio 50), 43% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Bias Audit Transparency, RecruitBot 22 to Retorio 40.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Retorio under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Retorio is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RecruitBot | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Retorio 50
3.4 weighted points to Retorio
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Retorio 40
3.2 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RecruitBot 40 · Retorio 33
0.8 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Retorio 52
0.6 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Retorio 30
0.4 weighted points to Retorio
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · Retorio 50
0.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · Retorio 52
0.2 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 50 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 40 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 44 (F) | -7 | -6.7 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 25 | 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 |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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 RecruitBot and Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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