§ The result
Avature leads Arya by Leoforce on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Avature sits 10 points above Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 38 — with Avature filed under ATS-integrated and Arya by Leoforce under Sourcing. Avature leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Arya by Leoforce is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Avature leads is Human Oversight Design, Arya by Leoforce 54 to Avature 60. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Avature 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Avature holds across the 6 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
Avature
Avature is an enterprise talent acquisition and talent management platform (recruiting CRM, ATS, onboarding and internal mobility) with built-in AI for semantic search, explainable weighted candidate matching and ranking, candidate fraud detection and configurable recruiting agents.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Avature under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Avature |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Avature 55
5.0 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Avature 58
1.5 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Avature 40
1.2 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Avature 60
1.1 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Avature 32
1.1 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Avature 60
0.7 weighted points to Avature
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 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 -10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Avature.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Avature | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 48 (F) | -10 | -10.6 |
§ 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 | Avature | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arya by Leoforce has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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