§ The result
Dayforce leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Dayforce (ATS-integrated) opens a 19-point lead on Arya by Leoforce (Sourcing), 57 to 38. Dayforce takes all 7 criteria and Arya by Leoforce none of them; the nearest contest is Bias Audit Transparency, Arya by Leoforce 40 to Dayforce 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 30, Dayforce 74 — and at a 20% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 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
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Dayforce under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Dayforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 1992 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Dayforce 74
8.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Dayforce 40
2.3 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Dayforce 63
2.3 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Dayforce 47
2.0 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Dayforce 70
1.9 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Dayforce 68
1.7 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Dayforce 42
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 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 -19.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Dayforce.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Dayforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 74 | -44 | -8.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 63 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 68 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 47 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 70 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 57 (F) | -19 | -19.3 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 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; Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next