§ The result
Checkr leads Arya by Leoforce by 16 points.
Checkr finishes 16 points clear of Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 38 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Checkr leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Arya by Leoforce leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Checkr 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Checkr 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
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Checkr 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.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Checkr |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Checkr 70
8.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Checkr 50
2.4 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Checkr 62
2.1 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Checkr 68
1.8 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Checkr 66
1.4 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Checkr 32
1.1 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Checkr 35
0.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Checkr.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Checkr | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 66 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 68 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 54 (F) | -16 | -15.8 |
§ 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 | Checkr | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 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; Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next