§ The result
Retorio leads XOR on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Retorio sits 14 points above XOR under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 30 — with Retorio filed under Assessment and XOR under Screening. Retorio leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so XOR is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Retorio leads is Customer Documentation, Retorio 50 to XOR 48. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Retorio 50, XOR 20 — and at a 20% weight it carries 43% 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Retorio is filed under Assessment AI, XOR 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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Retorio 50 · XOR 20
6.0 weighted points to Retorio
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Retorio 40 · XOR 18
4.0 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Retorio 52 · XOR 42
1.5 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Retorio 52 · XOR 40
1.4 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Retorio 30 · XOR 25
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Retorio 50 · XOR 48
0.2 weighted points to Retorio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Retorio minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Retorio | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 18 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 33 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 30 (F) | +14 | +13.8 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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