§ The result
4 points separate Zoho Recruit and Arya by Leoforce.
Zoho Recruit holds a 4-point edge over Arya by Leoforce under rubric v1.0, 42 to 38, across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Zoho Recruit: Zoho Recruit is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Arya by Leoforce on Bias Audit Transparency. Zoho Recruit takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Arya by Leoforce 30, Zoho Recruit 45), which is 42% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, Arya by Leoforce 40 to Zoho Recruit 24.
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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Arya by Leoforce is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated 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 Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arya by Leoforce | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Zoho Recruit 45
3.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arya by Leoforce 40 · Zoho Recruit 24
2.9 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arya by Leoforce 30 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arya by Leoforce 46 · Zoho Recruit 60
1.1 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arya by Leoforce 48 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.1 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arya by Leoforce 25 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arya by Leoforce 54 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.5 weighted points to Arya by Leoforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 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 -3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arya by Leoforce minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Arya by Leoforce | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 24 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 42 (F) | -4 | -3.8 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Arya by Leoforce, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arya by Leoforce last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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