§ The result
SHL leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
SHL, filed under Assessment, comes out 13 points above Arya by Leoforce, filed under Sourcing: 51 against 38 under rubric v1.0. SHL takes all 7 criteria and Arya by Leoforce none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Arya by Leoforce 54 to SHL 58. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arya by Leoforce 30, SHL 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 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
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SHL 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 SHL is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · SHL 60
6.0 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · SHL 50
1.8 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · SHL 58
1.5 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · SHL 40
1.2 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · SHL 60
1.1 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · SHL 58
0.5 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 51 (F) | -13 | -12.9 |
§ 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 | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 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; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 4 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 SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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