§ The result
4 points separate Arya by Leoforce and SeekOut.
Within the Sourcing cohort, Arya by Leoforce edges SeekOut by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 38 to 34. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Arya by Leoforce, with 2 level: Arya by Leoforce is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and SeekOut on Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 48, SeekOut 35) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Arya by Leoforce 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
SeekOut
Sourcing platform aggregating public profile data into a searchable talent index, with AI-assisted candidate matching and outreach.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce and SeekOut are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Arya by Leoforce is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | SeekOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · SeekOut 35
1.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · SeekOut 45
1.1 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · SeekOut 35
1.0 weighted points to SeekOut
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · SeekOut 35
0.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · SeekOut 25
0.6 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus SeekOut.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | SeekOut | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 35 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 34 (F) | +4 | +3.5 |
§ 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 | SeekOut | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 4 | 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; SeekOut has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 5 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for SeekOut, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SeekOut last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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