§ The result
Cangrade leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Cangrade sits 13 points above Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 32 — with Cangrade filed under Assessment and Arena Analytics under Screening. Cangrade leads every one of the 7 criteria, Arena Analytics none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Arena Analytics 28 to Cangrade 32. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Arena Analytics 38, Cangrade 62) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Arena Analytics 30, Cangrade 52), 33% of the weighted advantage Cangrade 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
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Cangrade 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 | Cangrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Cangrade 52
4.4 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Cangrade 56
2.2 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Cangrade 62
1.9 weighted points to Cangrade
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Cangrade 35
1.8 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Cangrade 54
1.8 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Cangrade 30
0.8 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Cangrade 32
0.5 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Cangrade.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Cangrade | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 56 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 45 (F) | -13 | -13.3 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 3 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 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 | 20 | 10 | 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; Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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