§ The result
HiringBranch leads Arya by Leoforce by 14 points.
HiringBranch, filed under Assessment, comes out 14 points above Arya by Leoforce, filed under Sourcing: 52 against 38 under rubric v1.0. HiringBranch leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Arya by Leoforce leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 30, HiringBranch 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiringBranch 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 HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · HiringBranch 60
6.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · HiringBranch 60
3.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · HiringBranch 35
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · HiringBranch 64
1.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · HiringBranch 40
1.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · HiringBranch 55
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · HiringBranch 52
0.2 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 64 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 52 (F) | -14 | -14.5 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 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; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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