§ The result
Sova Assessment leads Arya by Leoforce by 10 points.
Sova Assessment sits 10 points above Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 38 — with Sova Assessment filed under Assessment and Arya by Leoforce under Sourcing. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Sova Assessment: Sova Assessment is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Arya by Leoforce on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arya by Leoforce 30, Sova Assessment 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Sova Assessment holds across the 6 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
Sova Assessment
Sova Assessment is a UK-based enterprise talent assessment platform combining personality questionnaires, cognitive and ability tests, situational judgement, video interviews, virtual assessment centres and AI-led role simulations into a single occupational-psychology-validated candidate scoring workflow.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sova Assessment 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 Sova Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Sova Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Sova Assessment 55
5.0 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Sova Assessment 40
2.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
8% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Sova Assessment 62
1.3 weighted points to Sova Assessment
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Sova Assessment 40
1.2 weighted points to Sova Assessment
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Sova Assessment 52
0.6 weighted points to Sova Assessment
18% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Sova Assessment 38
0.4 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Sova Assessment 55
0.1 weighted points to Sova Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Sova Assessment.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Sova Assessment | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 48 (F) | -10 | -10.1 |
§ 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 | Sova Assessment | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 8 | 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; Sova Assessment has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sova Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Sova Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sova Assessment last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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