§ The result
2 points separate Personio and Arya by Leoforce.
Personio holds a 2-point edge over Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0, 40 to 38, across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Personio: Personio is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Arya by Leoforce on Bias Audit Transparency. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Arya by Leoforce takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Arya by Leoforce 40 to Personio 25, 79% of the weighted advantage Arya by Leoforce holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Post-Market Monitoring, Arya by Leoforce 30 to Personio 48.
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
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Personio under ATS-integrated 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 | Personio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Personio 25
2.7 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Personio 48
2.2 weighted points to Personio
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Personio 40
2.0 weighted points to Personio
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Personio 30
0.8 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Personio 48
0.7 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Personio 52
0.6 weighted points to Personio
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Personio 50
0.3 weighted points to Personio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Personio.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Personio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 40 (F) | -2 | -2.4 |
§ 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 | Personio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 13 | 8 | Sources 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; Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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