§ The result
Emmersion leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Emmersion sits 12 points above Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 32 — with Emmersion filed under Assessment and Arena Analytics under Screening. Emmersion takes all 7 criteria and Arena Analytics none of them; the nearest contest is Bias Audit Transparency, Arena Analytics 25 to Emmersion 28. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Arena Analytics 30, Emmersion 57) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds 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
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Emmersion 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 | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Emmersion 57
5.4 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Emmersion 53
1.8 weighted points to Emmersion
8% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Emmersion 60
1.8 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Emmersion 50
1.2 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Emmersion 38
1.2 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Emmersion 30
0.8 weighted points to Emmersion
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Emmersion 28
0.5 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 57 | -27 | -5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 53 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 44 (F) | -12 | -12.7 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 7 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 5 | 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; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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