§ The result
BambooHR leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
BambooHR, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 11 points above Arena Analytics, filed under Screening: 43 against 32 under rubric v1.0. BambooHR takes all 7 criteria and Arena Analytics none of them; the nearest contest is Bias Audit Transparency, Arena Analytics 25 to BambooHR 28. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Arena Analytics 38, BambooHR 62) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Arena Analytics 30, BambooHR 42), the second being 21% of the weighted advantage BambooHR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arena Analytics
Arena scores job applicants, mainly for healthcare and senior-living employers, on how likely they are to show up and stay in a specific role at a specific location, reroutes and sources candidates it rates likely to be retained, and applies the same outcome models to employee flight risk and internal mobility.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, BambooHR under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | BambooHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · BambooHR 42
2.4 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · BambooHR 56
2.1 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · BambooHR 44
1.9 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · BambooHR 62
1.9 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · BambooHR 50
1.4 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · BambooHR 34
1.3 weighted points to BambooHR
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · BambooHR 28
0.5 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus BambooHR.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | BambooHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 56 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 44 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 43 (F) | -11 | -11.7 |
§ 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 | Arena Analytics | BambooHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics 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: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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