§ The result
BrightHire leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, BrightHire opens a 19-point lead on Arena Analytics, 51 to 32, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Arena Analytics leads none of the 7 criteria, and BrightHire is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arena Analytics 25, BrightHire 50, 18% weight), is only 23% of the weighted advantage BrightHire builds 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
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
§ The record
Arena Analytics and BrightHire are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Assessment.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · BrightHire 50
4.5 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · BrightHire 52
4.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · BrightHire 60
2.7 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · BrightHire 60
2.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · BrightHire 62
1.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · BrightHire 42
1.7 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · BrightHire 36
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 36 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 51 (F) | -19 | -19.5 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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