§ The result
Retorio leads Arya by Leoforce by 6 points.
Retorio scores 44 and Arya by Leoforce 38 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Arya by Leoforce takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Retorio, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Retorio 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage Retorio holds across the 5 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
Retorio
Video-based AI that analyses words, voice, and facial expression/body language to infer Big Five (OCEAN) personality and behavioural traits.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Retorio under Assessment 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. Only Retorio is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Retorio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Retorio 50
4.0 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Retorio 30
0.8 weighted points to Retorio
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Retorio 52
0.6 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Retorio 33
0.4 weighted points to Retorio
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Retorio 50
0.3 weighted points to Retorio
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Retorio 52
0.2 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Retorio.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Retorio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 44 (F) | -6 | -5.8 |
§ 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 | Retorio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 6 | 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; Retorio has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Retorio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Retorio, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Retorio last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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