§ The result
Bryq leads Arya by Leoforce on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Bryq finishes 19 points clear of Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 38 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Bryq 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 Bryq leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Arya by Leoforce 48 to Bryq 62. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arya by Leoforce 40, Bryq 70, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 28% of the weighted advantage Bryq 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
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Bryq under Assessment 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. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Bryq 70
5.4 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Bryq 54
4.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Bryq 55
3.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Bryq 40
2.3 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Bryq 62
2.1 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Bryq 66
1.6 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -19.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Bryq.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 54 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 66 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 57 (F) | -19 | -19.1 |
§ 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 | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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