§ The result
Ashby leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Ashby (ATS-integrated) opens an 18-point lead on Arya by Leoforce (Sourcing), 56 to 38. Of the 7 criteria Arya by Leoforce wins none, and the narrowest lead Ashby holds is on Human Oversight Design, Arya by Leoforce 54 to Ashby 62. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arya by Leoforce 30, Ashby 63, 20% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage Ashby builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Ashby under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Ashby |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Ashby 63
6.6 weighted points to Ashby
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Ashby 62
4.0 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Ashby 42
2.5 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Ashby 58
1.5 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Ashby 42
1.4 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Ashby 63
1.4 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Ashby 62
1.0 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Ashby.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Ashby | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 63 | -33 | -6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 63 | -17 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 56 (F) | -18 | -18.4 |
§ 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 | Arya by Leoforce | Ashby | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Arya by Leoforce has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next