§ The result
Brainner leads Arya by Leoforce by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Brainner, filed under Screening, finishes on 46 and Arya by Leoforce, filed under Sourcing, on 38, 8 points apart. Brainner leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Arya by Leoforce leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 30, Brainner 52 — and at a 20% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Brainner under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Brainner |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Brainner 52
4.4 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Brainner 45
1.8 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Brainner 58
1.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Brainner 30
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Brainner 53
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Brainner 50
0.5 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Brainner 42
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Brainner.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Brainner | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 53 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 46 (F) | -8 | -8.5 |
§ 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 | Brainner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 33 | 4 | 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; Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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