§ The result
Cegid leads Arya by Leoforce by 7 points.
Cegid scores 45 and Arya by Leoforce 38 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Arya by Leoforce takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Cegid, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Cegid 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Cegid holds across the 6 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
Cegid
Cegid's HR suite offers two recruiting lines: Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (ex-DigitalRecruiters), an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, scorecards, automated scoring and an AI conversational agent that pre-qualifies candidates on career sites and WhatsApp, and Cegid Talentsoft (now sold as Cegid HR Suite) recruiting, whose 'Recruiting Match' matches positions to candidates algorithmically.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Cegid under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Cegid |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2012 | 1983 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Cegid 50
4.0 weighted points to Cegid
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Cegid 30
1.8 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
8% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Cegid 62
1.3 weighted points to Cegid
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Cegid 40
1.2 weighted points to Cegid
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Cegid 32
1.1 weighted points to Cegid
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Cegid 55
1.1 weighted points to Cegid
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Cegid 55
0.1 weighted points to Cegid
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 10.5 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 Cegid.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Cegid | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| 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 | Cegid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 33 | 6 | 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; Cegid has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for Cegid, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cegid last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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