§ The result
HiPeople leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople finishes 23 points clear of Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 38 (F) — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Arya by Leoforce leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arya by Leoforce 40, HiPeople 84, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage HiPeople builds 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
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiPeople 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 HiPeople is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · HiPeople 84
7.9 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · HiPeople 62
6.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · HiPeople 60
3.6 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · HiPeople 66
1.6 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · HiPeople 35
1.5 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · HiPeople 58
1.5 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · HiPeople 62
1.0 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -23.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -23.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 62 | -32 | -6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 84 | -44 | -7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 66 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 61 (D) | -23 | -23.5 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 8 | 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; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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