§ The result
Alva Labs leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Alva Labs (Assessment) opens a 23-point lead on Arya by Leoforce (Sourcing), 61 (D) to 38 (F). Arya by Leoforce leads none of the 7 criteria, and Alva Labs is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alva Labs 78, Arya by Leoforce 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Vendor profile
Arya by Leoforce
Leoforce's AI agents, successors to its long-running Arya matching platform, source candidates from a proprietary talent database, job boards and customers' ATS records, score and rank them for fit, engage them by email and SMS, prescreen career-site visitors and deliver pre-vetted, interview-ready applicants.
§ The record
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, Arya by Leoforce under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Alva Labs is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Arya by Leoforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Arya by Leoforce 30
9.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Arya by Leoforce 40
3.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Arya by Leoforce 48
3.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Arya by Leoforce 30
2.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Arya by Leoforce 25
1.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Arya by Leoforce 46
1.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Arya by Leoforce 54
1.1 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +23.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +23 beside that +23.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Arya by Leoforce.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Arya by Leoforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 30 | +48 | +9.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 48 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 54 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 46 | +22 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 38 (F) | +23 | +23.3 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | Arya by Leoforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Arya by Leoforce has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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