§ The result
Retorio takes the total, Recruitly takes more of the criteria.
Retorio (Assessment) edges Recruitly (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 44 to 41. Recruitly leads more of the criteria than Retorio — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Retorio leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Retorio. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruitly 15, Retorio 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 69% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly 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 | Recruitly | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AE | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Retorio 40
4.5 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Retorio 33
1.4 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Retorio 52
1.1 weighted points to Retorio
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · Retorio 50
1.0 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · Retorio 52
1.0 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Retorio 30
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Retorio 50
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 40 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 33 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 44 (F) | -3 | -2.8 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 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 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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