§ The result
Retorio leads SeekOut on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Retorio sits 10 points above SeekOut under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 34 — with Retorio filed under Assessment and SeekOut under Sourcing. Retorio leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so SeekOut is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Retorio leads is FRIA Support, Retorio 30 to SeekOut 25. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Retorio 52, SeekOut 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Retorio 50, SeekOut 35), the second being 32% of the weighted advantage Retorio 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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Retorio is filed under Assessment AI, SeekOut under Candidate sourcing 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 | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · SeekOut 35
3.0 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · SeekOut 35
2.5 weighted points to Retorio
8% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · SeekOut 35
1.2 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Retorio 33 · SeekOut 25
1.0 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · SeekOut 45
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Retorio 30 · SeekOut 25
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 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 +9.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 25 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 34 (F) | +10 | +9.3 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 5 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 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 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next