§ The result
Korn Ferry leads Arya by Leoforce by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Korn Ferry, filed under Assessment, finishes on 46 and Arya by Leoforce, filed under Sourcing, on 38, 8 points apart. Arya by Leoforce takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Korn Ferry, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 30, Korn Ferry 58 — and at a 20% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 5 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
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Korn Ferry 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 Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Korn Ferry 58
5.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
18% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Korn Ferry 48
1.4 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Korn Ferry 52
0.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Korn Ferry 52
0.5 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Korn Ferry 33
0.4 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Korn Ferry 52
0.2 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 46 (F) | -8 | -8.2 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | 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; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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