§ The result
Brainner leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Both filed under Screening, Brainner and Arena Analytics come out 46 and 32 under rubric v1.0, 14 points in favour of Brainner. Of the 7 criteria Arena Analytics wins none, and the narrowest lead Brainner holds is on FRIA Support, Arena Analytics 25 to Brainner 30. The advantage Brainner holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arena Analytics 30, Brainner 52, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 29% of the weighted points Brainner gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
§ The record
Arena Analytics and Brainner are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Brainner |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Brainner 52
4.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Brainner 42
3.1 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Brainner 45
2.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Brainner 53
1.6 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Brainner 58
1.6 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Brainner 50
1.4 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Brainner 30
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Brainner.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Brainner | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 53 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 46 (F) | -14 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | Brainner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 6 | 0 | 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 domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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