§ The result
Spark Hire leads Arya by Leoforce on all 7 criteria.
Spark Hire finishes 15 points clear of Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 38 — across the Video interview and Sourcing cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Arya by Leoforce wins none, and the narrowest lead Spark Hire holds is on FRIA Support, Arya by Leoforce 25 to Spark Hire 30. The advantage Spark Hire holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arya by Leoforce 30, Spark Hire 58, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 36% of the weighted points Spark Hire gains across the 7 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview 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 Spark Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Spark Hire 58
5.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Spark Hire 62
4.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Spark Hire 60
1.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Spark Hire 64
1.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Spark Hire 62
1.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Spark Hire 38
1.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 64 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 53 (F) | -15 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 16 | 4 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next