§ The result
Employment Hero leads Arya by Leoforce by 10 points.
Employment Hero, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above Arya by Leoforce, filed under Sourcing: 48 against 38 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Employment Hero: Employment Hero is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Arya by Leoforce on Bias Audit Transparency. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arya by Leoforce 30, Employment Hero 50, 20% weight), is only 37% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds 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
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Employment Hero 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. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Employment Hero 50
4.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Employment Hero 50
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Employment Hero 62
1.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Employment Hero 56
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Employment Hero 32
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Employment Hero 62
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Employment Hero 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 -10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 56 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 48 (F) | -10 | -10.0 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | 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 | 31 | 4 | Sources 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; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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