§ The result
SEEK leads Retorio on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SEEK, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above Retorio, filed under Assessment: 54 against 44 under rubric v1.0. Retorio is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: SEEK takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Retorio 30 to SEEK 32. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Retorio 50, SEEK 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage SEEK holds across the 6 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
SEEK
SEEK runs employment marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia (SEEK, Jobstreet and Jobsdb), and its seekAi employer tools label and rank applicants as 'high-fit' using a model trained on millions of past hirer shortlisting decisions, target job ads at predicted high-fit candidates, and run AI voice or text pre-screens, recommended shortlists and reference checks through a feature called Assist.
§ The record
Retorio is filed under Assessment AI, SEEK under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Retorio is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Retorio | SEEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | AU |
| Founded | 2018 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · SEEK 70
4.0 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Retorio 33 · SEEK 50
2.0 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · SEEK 60
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · SEEK 62
1.2 weighted points to SEEK
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · SEEK 64
1.1 weighted points to SEEK
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Retorio 30 · SEEK 32
0.3 weighted points to SEEK
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -9.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 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 -9.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus SEEK.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | SEEK | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 50 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 54 (F) | -10 | -9.9 |
§ 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 | SEEK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; SEEK has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Retorio and SEEK sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for SEEK, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SEEK last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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