Arya by Leoforce
HireAIScore rates Arya by Leoforce 38 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed September 25, 2026. Arya by Leoforce ranks 68 of 86 vendors rated in Candidate sourcing AI, against a category average of 46. That score is drawn from 31 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Arya by Leoforce — 26 with a cited source, 5 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
Arya by Leoforce, criterion by criterion
Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20% · category avg 48
30
+6.0
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18% · category avg 40
40
+7.2
FRIA Support
Weight 15% · category avg 31
25
+3.8
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15% · category avg 53
48
+7.2
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12% · category avg 56
54
+6.5
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12% · category avg 40
30
+3.6
Customer Documentation
Weight 8% · category avg 57
46
+3.7
Total weighted score
37.9(rounded to 38 for display)
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 86 Candidate sourcing AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
Strongest criterion
Human Oversight Design
54raw / 100
Contributes 6.5 to the total. 54 against a 56 category average.
Weakest criterion
FRIA Support
25raw / 100
Contributes 3.8 to the total. 25 against a 31 category average.
Cited evidence
The evidence behind the score
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 31
- Documentation
- 17
- Audit report
- 1
- Public statement
- 8
- Absence
- 5
- With a source URL
- 26 of 31
- Source hostnames
- 2
- Fewest items
- 2
- FRIA Support
These figures measure how thoroughly Arya by Leoforce was reviewed, not how Arya by Leoforce performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
3 items30
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A May 2025 marketing guide says Leoforce scores and ranks candidates on '300+ parameters and seven multi-dimensional data points' using a model trained on 'the largest dataset in the industry' with a corrective feedback loop, but it does not describe the model, its validation or its limitations.
https://leoforce.com/guides/ai-resume-screening-guide-to-tool-process-algorithm/
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
An October 2023 press release lists the dimensions Arya's candidate scores draw on (skills, experience, industry, role, company, occupation and education), which is the most specific public account of how scoring works.
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No model or system card, technical documentation, AI policy, explainability statement or ISO/IEC 42001 certification was found across the roughly 300 pages in leoforce.com's sitemaps, and the URL of Leoforce's former whitepaper on bias in machine-learning recruiting now redirects to the whitepaper index.
Bias Audit Transparency
4 items40
- Audit reportCaptured Sep 25, 2026
DNV Business Assurance India's one-page 'Statement of Assessment' (issued June 30, 2026, covering June 2025 to May 2026) finds the platform 'Adequately Compliant' with LL 144 on the basis of simulated screening tests with bias-related inputs; it reports no selection rates, impact ratios or sample sizes and states it is 'not intended in any way to provide certification'.
https://leoforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Leoforce-US-NYC-144-Assessment-Letter-2026.pdf
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce's 'Bias Audit Certification' page says an unnamed independent auditor found the candidate-list output 'unbiased and compliant' with LL 144, and its download form delivers the DNV letter rather than a results summary.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A December 2023 post says BDO performed an earlier LL 144 bias audit in which Leoforce 'was found compliant', but no BDO audit summary is publicly available.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
An October 2025 post says the audit gives customers 'bias-free sourcing at scale' and confidence in compliance 'across multiple jurisdictions', and it claims 'monthly A/B testing' for fairness; the published letter substantiates none of this.
https://leoforce.com/blog/does-your-sourcing-software-have-diversity-built-in/
FRIA Support
2 items25
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No EU AI Act material, Article 27 fundamental rights impact assessment template or deployer-obligation guidance appears on leoforce.com; a scan of every sitemap page found no mention of the AI Act, deployers or impact assessments.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The terms (updated August 4, 2022) make the client solely responsible for knowing recruiting and anti-discrimination law but give no guidance on AI Act, impact-assessment or candidate-notice duties.
Data Governance Disclosure
6 items48
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The privacy policy (last updated January 1, 2023) says candidate profile data comes from 'social media platforms, job boards, and third-party partners' and contact details from 'contact providers', and that profiles are stored in a database provided to prospective customers.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce states it never uses protected attributes such as age, race, gender or ethnicity 'in training or decision-making'.
https://leoforce.com/blog/does-your-sourcing-software-have-diversity-built-in/
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce reports a DNV-certified ISO/IEC 27001:2022 information security management system and a DNV privacy-management assessment against GDPR, CCPA and ISO/IEC 29100 (December 2023).
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The Integrations & Security page shows ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR, NYC Bias Audit and SOC 2 Type II badges but offers no SOC 2 report access, auditor names, dates, subprocessor list or DPA.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The privacy policy's 'Has Leoforce indexed your publicly available professional profile?' link and the footer's 'Right to be forgotten' link both lead to this page, which now only redirects to the homepage, so there is no working self-service lookup or deletion tool.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce's EU/UK/Swiss data-transfer policy, last updated September 1, 2022, still claims compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which the EU Court of Justice invalidated in 2020, and does not mention the Data Privacy Framework.
Human Oversight Design
7 items54
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Score Details in Arya's Candidate 360 gives recruiters 'a detailed explanation of how a candidate's score was calculated' to support 'shortlisting or rejection decisions' (October 2023).
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The May 2025 guide describes candidate identity masking and optional diversity indicators that highlight candidates from underrepresented groups without filtering the list to them, leaving the choice to the recruiter.
https://leoforce.com/guides/ai-resume-screening-guide-to-tool-process-algorithm/
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
For Capture, Leoforce says its 'in-house recruiters personally vet every applicant' after AI sourcing, so a human reviews candidates before delivery, although that reviewer works for the vendor, not the employer.
https://leoforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Leoforce-Capture-Overview.pdf
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Rediscovery's agents automatically engage candidates by email and SMS and pre-vet them for the role, and there is no public description of how recruiters review or override that pre-vetting.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The terms state that 'All hiring decisions are ultimately at the Client's sole discretion', which places final decisions with the customer.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce markets 'fair candidate evaluations without manual intervention', presenting fully automated evaluation as a benefit rather than documenting human review.
https://leoforce.com/blog/does-your-sourcing-software-have-diversity-built-in/
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce says it enforces least-privilege access with audit logs and user-activity tracking on individual AWS Cognito accounts, although multi-factor authentication is opt-in (July 2025).
https://leoforce.com/blog/chatbot-ai-security-breach-the-importance-of-security-for-ai-solutions/
Post-Market Monitoring
5 items30
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No public status page exists: status.leoforce.com and status.goarya.com do not resolve, no Statuspage, Instatus or Better Stack page exists under the Leoforce name, and an 'Arya' page at arya.statuspage.io contains only Statuspage's example components and cannot be tied to Leoforce.
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
leoforce.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, vulnerability-disclosure policy, AI incident channel or model changelog was found anywhere on the site.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
The support page offers support@leoforce.com, a contact form and phone numbers for Raleigh and Hyderabad, but no help center, release notes or status link.
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
A 'Verify a Recruiting Message' page lets candidates check whether MyCareers outreach is genuine through a named Leoforce contact; it guards against impersonation but is not an AI incident channel.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce claims 'monthly A/B testing' guards against unfair outcomes and model drift but publishes no results or monitoring dashboard.
https://leoforce.com/blog/does-your-sourcing-software-have-diversity-built-in/
Customer Documentation
4 items46
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Product pages for Source, Capture, Convert and Rediscovery are supported by a public pricing page listing monthly prices (Rediscovery $5,000 to $15,000; Convert $8,000 to $32,000).
https://leoforce.com/leoforces-outcome-based-recruiting-solution-pricing/
- DocumentationCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Candidate-facing notices date from 2022-2023 (this California notice took effect January 1, 2023), and none mentions automated decision-making or how Leoforce's AI scores candidates.
- Public statementCaptured Sep 25, 2026
Leoforce's only customer-facing overview of AI hiring laws (October 2025) attributes to Illinois an annual bias-audit mandate that is not in force, never mentions Illinois HB 3773, and still describes Colorado's since-replaced SB 24-205.
https://leoforce.com/blog/does-your-sourcing-software-have-diversity-built-in/
- AbsenceCaptured Sep 25, 2026
No deployer or compliance guide, LL 144 notice template, public DPA, subprocessor list or public help center was found on leoforce.com.
Editorial notes
Company overview
Leoforce, LLC is a Raleigh, North Carolina company, with an office in Hyderabad, India, that has sold AI recruiting software since 2012 under founder and CEO Madhu Modugu. Its long-running Arya platform scored and ranked candidates drawn from a proprietary database of publicly available profiles. That technology now sits behind Leoforce-branded agents: Source (AI job-ad targeting), Rediscovery (matching and automated SMS/email outreach inside a customer's ATS), Capture (pre-vetted, interview-ready applicants that Leoforce's own recruiters check before delivery), Convert (a career-site chat agent that prescreens and schedules) and Connect (candidate messaging). goarya.com now redirects to leoforce.com, though customers still log in at app.goarya.com. Unusually for this category, Leoforce publishes list prices: Rediscovery costs $5,000 to $15,000 a month and Convert $8,000 to $32,000 a month.
Regulatory exposure
Leoforce's products line up with the EU AI Act's Annex III point 4 high-risk uses: targeted job ads, filtering applications and evaluating candidates. Any deployment for EU roles would therefore carry high-risk obligations from 2 December 2027, and Leoforce publishes nothing on the Act. Its main market is the US. There, ranked shortlists used to decide who gets interviewed can qualify as automated employment decision tools under NYC Local Law 144. Leoforce markets a 'Bias Audit Certification', but the DNV letter behind it contains none of the selection rates or impact ratios that DCWP requires in a published audit summary. NYC employers and staffing agencies cannot rely on it alone, and DCWP has committed to tougher enforcement since a December 2025 State Comptroller audit. Illinois has required notice of AI use in employment decisions since 1 January 2026 (HB 3773), yet Leoforce's own October 2025 guide to state AI laws leaves that law out. Customers using its scores will also face Colorado's SB 26-189 disclosure rules (from 1 January 2027), California's FEHA automated-decision regulations (in force since 1 October 2025, with four-year record retention) and the CPPA's ADMT rules (from 1 January 2027).
Path to a higher score
Leoforce's quickest gains are in audit transparency. It should publish a full LL 144 results summary for each product that scores or screens candidates (Capture, Rediscovery, Convert). Each summary should give data sources, sample sizes, and selection or scoring rates and impact ratios by sex, race/ethnicity and intersectional group. It should also release the results of the 'monthly A/B' fairness testing it claims, and stop using 'certification' and 'bias-free' language that its auditor's own disclaimer does not support. A model or system card should explain the scoring dimensions, training data, excluded attributes, how diversity indicators are derived, and where recruiters review or override agent decisions. That card should come with deployer guidance for NYC, Illinois, Colorado, California and the EU AI Act. Basic upkeep would lift the remaining categories: restore the broken profile-lookup and deletion tool, update the 2022-2023 privacy documents and the defunct Privacy Shield policy, publish a DPA and subprocessor list, and add a status page, a security.txt and a changelog.
Regulatory frame
What applies to candidate sourcing AI.
Ranking outputs are inside Annex III §4 when they influence hiring decisions. GDPR Article 22 (automated decision-making) and the GDPR rights around profiling apply independently for EU candidates.
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