§ The result
2 points separate Pillar and Arya by Leoforce.
Pillar (Screening) edges Arya by Leoforce (Sourcing) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 40 to 38. Pillar leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Arya by Leoforce leads 3, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Pillar 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage Pillar holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Pillar 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 Pillar is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Pillar 42
2.4 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Pillar 30
0.8 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Pillar 48
0.7 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Pillar 45
0.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Pillar 38
0.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Pillar 33
0.4 weighted points to Pillar
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Pillar 50
0.3 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 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 -2.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 40 (F) | -2 | -2.3 |
§ 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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 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 | 12 | 7 | 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; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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