§ The result
2 points separate TalentLens and Retorio.
Within the Assessment cohort, TalentLens edges Retorio by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 44. Retorio takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for TalentLens, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Retorio 50, TalentLens 58) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Retorio 40, TalentLens 45), the second being 35% of the weighted advantage TalentLens holds across the 4 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
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
§ The record
Retorio and TalentLens are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Retorio | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | GB |
| Founded | 2018 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Retorio 40 · TalentLens 45
0.9 weighted points to TalentLens
8% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · TalentLens 58
0.6 weighted points to TalentLens
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · TalentLens 57
0.6 weighted points to TalentLens
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · TalentLens 52
0.4 weighted points to TalentLens
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · TalentLens 50
0.3 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Retorio 33 · TalentLens 32
0.1 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus TalentLens.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 32 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 46 (F) | -2 | -2.1 |
§ 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 | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | 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; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Retorio and TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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