§ The result
BrightHire leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire sits 13 points above Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 38 — with BrightHire filed under Screening and Arya by Leoforce under Sourcing. Of the 7 criteria Arya by Leoforce wins none, and the narrowest lead BrightHire holds is on Human Oversight Design, Arya by Leoforce 54 to BrightHire 60. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arya by Leoforce 30, BrightHire 52, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 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
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, BrightHire 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. Only BrightHire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · BrightHire 52
4.4 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · BrightHire 50
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · BrightHire 60
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · BrightHire 36
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · BrightHire 42
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · BrightHire 62
1.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · BrightHire 60
0.7 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 36 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 51 (F) | -13 | -13.1 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 7 | 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; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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