§ The result
Rippling leads Retorio on all 7 criteria.
Rippling sits 12 points above Retorio under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 44 — with Rippling filed under ATS-integrated and Retorio under Assessment. Rippling leads every one of the 7 criteria, Retorio none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Bias Audit Transparency, Retorio 40 to Rippling 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Retorio 50, Rippling 73, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Rippling holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
§ The record
Retorio is filed under Assessment AI, Rippling under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Retorio is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Retorio | Rippling |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · Rippling 73
4.6 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Retorio 30 · Rippling 45
2.3 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · Rippling 64
1.8 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Retorio 33 · Rippling 47
1.7 weighted points to Rippling
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · Rippling 64
1.1 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · Rippling 60
1.0 weighted points to Rippling
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Retorio 40 · Rippling 42
0.4 weighted points to Rippling
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 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 -12 beside that -12.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus Rippling.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | Rippling | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 73 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 47 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 56 (F) | -12 | -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 | Retorio | Rippling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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