§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter opens a 19-point lead on Arya by Leoforce, 57 to 38, with both scored in the Sourcing cohort. LinkedIn Recruiter leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Arya by Leoforce leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arya by Leoforce 30, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 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
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
7.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
2.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 67 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 66 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 68 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 57 (F) | -19 | -18.8 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | 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; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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