§ The result
Cangrade leads Arya by Leoforce by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Cangrade, filed under Assessment, finishes on 45 and Arya by Leoforce, filed under Sourcing, on 38, 7 points apart. Cangrade leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Arya by Leoforce leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 30, Cangrade 52 — and at a 20% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Cangrade 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
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Cangrade under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Cangrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Cangrade 52
4.4 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Cangrade 62
1.3 weighted points to Cangrade
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Cangrade 35
0.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Cangrade 54
0.9 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Cangrade 30
0.8 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Cangrade 56
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Cangrade 32
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Cangrade.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Cangrade | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 54 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 45 (F) | -7 | -6.9 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 3 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 20 | 10 | 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; Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next