§ The result
Criteria leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Criteria finishes 21 points clear of Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 32 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Arena Analytics leads none. The advantage Criteria holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arena Analytics 30, Criteria 68, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 36% of the weighted points Criteria 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
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Criteria 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 | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Criteria 68
7.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Criteria 48
4.1 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Criteria 62
3.0 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Criteria 56
2.2 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Criteria 60
1.8 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Criteria 42
1.7 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Criteria 32
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -21.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 68 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 48 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 62 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 56 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 53 (F) | -21 | -21.4 |
§ 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 | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 14 | 4 | 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; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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