§ The result
Phenom leads Arya by Leoforce on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Both filed under Sourcing, Phenom and Arya by Leoforce come out 52 and 38 under rubric v1.0, 14 points in favour of Phenom. Arya by Leoforce is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Phenom takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is Human Oversight Design, Arya by Leoforce 54 to Phenom 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 40, Phenom 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Phenom 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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce and Phenom are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Phenom 75
6.3 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Phenom 55
5.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Phenom 60
1.8 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Phenom 60
0.7 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Phenom 55
0.7 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 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 Phenom.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 75 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -0.7 |
| 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 | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 2 | 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; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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