§ The result
Arya by Leoforce leads Mercor on all 7 criteria.
Arya by Leoforce finishes 15 points clear of Mercor under rubric v1.0 — 38 against 23 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Arya by Leoforce takes all 7 criteria and Mercor none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Arya by Leoforce 25 to Mercor 20. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arya by Leoforce 40, Mercor 10, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Arya by Leoforce 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
Mercor
Mercor is an AI talent platform that runs automated 20-minute AI video interviews and semantic resume/profile matching to vet, score, and place candidates and expert contractors, and offers an enterprise applicant-screening product that scores employers' applicant pools against role rubrics with pass/fail recommendations.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Mercor under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Mercor is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Mercor 10
5.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Mercor 22
3.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Mercor 22
1.6 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Mercor 42
1.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Mercor 20
1.2 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Mercor 20
0.8 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Mercor 40
0.5 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Mercor.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Mercor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 10 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 22 | +26 | +3.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 20 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 23 (F) | +15 | +14.8 |
§ 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 | Mercor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | 8 | 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; Mercor has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Mercor, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Mercor last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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