§ The result
Arya by Leoforce and Brazen tie at 38.
Arya by Leoforce (Sourcing) and Brazen (Screening) tie at 38 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Arya by Leoforce leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Brazen 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Brazen 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Brazen holds across the 3 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
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Brazen under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Brazen |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Brazen 40
2.0 weighted points to Brazen
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Brazen 30
1.8 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Brazen 46
1.0 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Brazen 38
1.0 weighted points to Brazen
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Brazen 55
0.7 weighted points to Brazen
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Brazen 45
0.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Brazen.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Brazen | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 46 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 38 (F) | - | -0.5 |
§ 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 | Brazen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 7 | Sources 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; Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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