§ The result
Bryq leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Bryq (Assessment) and Arena Analytics (Screening) are 25 points apart under rubric v1.0, 57 for Bryq against 32 for Arena Analytics. Arena Analytics leads none of the 7 criteria, and Bryq is ahead on 5 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, Bryq 70, 18% weight), is only 32% of the weighted advantage Bryq 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
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Bryq under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Bryq 70
8.1 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Bryq 54
4.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Bryq 55
3.2 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Bryq 62
3.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Bryq 40
2.3 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Bryq 66
2.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Bryq 54
1.9 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -25.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 25.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -25 beside that -25.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Bryq.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 54 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 70 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 55 | -27 | -3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 66 | -28 | -2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 57 (F) | -25 | -25.5 |
§ 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 | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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