§ The result
Gem leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Gem opens a 17-point lead on Arya by Leoforce, 55 to 38, with both scored in the Sourcing cohort. Gem leads every one of the 7 criteria, Arya by Leoforce none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Arya by Leoforce 54 to Gem 61. The advantage Gem holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arya by Leoforce 30, Gem 58, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 32% of the weighted points Gem gains across the 7 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
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce and Gem are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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 | Gem |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Gem 58
5.6 weighted points to Gem
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Gem 66
4.7 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Gem 47
2.0 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Gem 35
1.5 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Gem 57
1.3 weighted points to Gem
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Gem 62
1.3 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Gem 61
0.8 weighted points to Gem
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Gem.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Gem | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 66 | -26 | -4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 57 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 61 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 47 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 55 (F) | -17 | -17.3 |
§ 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 | Gem | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 19 | 2 | Audit reportSources 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; Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Gem sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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