§ The result
Arya by Leoforce leads Cognisess by 8 points.
Arya by Leoforce scores 38 and Cognisess 30 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Arya by Leoforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cognisess leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 40, Cognisess 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Arya by Leoforce 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
Cognisess
UK talent-analytics platform that scores candidates and employees with 50+ game-based and questionnaire assessments and weighted job-fit 'profilers', can auto-pass or auto-reject applicants against score thresholds, and runs recorded video interviews with optional DeepLearn video analytics.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Cognisess 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 Cognisess is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Cognisess 20
3.6 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Cognisess 42
1.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Cognisess 25
1.0 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Cognisess 42
0.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Cognisess 20
0.8 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Cognisess 40
0.5 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Cognisess 32
0.2 weighted points to Cognisess
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 30 (F) | +8 | +7.9 |
§ 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 | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 5 | 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; Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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