§ The result
2 points separate ZipRecruiter and Arya by Leoforce.
Within the Sourcing cohort, ZipRecruiter edges Arya by Leoforce by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 40 to 38. Arya by Leoforce takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for ZipRecruiter, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, and Arya by Leoforce holds it (Arya by Leoforce 40, ZipRecruiter 24, 18% weight), worth 100% of the weighted advantage Arya by Leoforce builds across the 1 criterion 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
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce and ZipRecruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · ZipRecruiter 24
2.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · ZipRecruiter 40
2.0 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.2 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · ZipRecruiter 52
0.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.1 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 24 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| 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 | 54 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 40 (F) | -2 | -2.0 |
§ 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 | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources 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; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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