Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Arena Analytics vs Pulsifi
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
1 point separates Pulsifi and Arena Analytics.
Pulsifi holds a 1-point edge over Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0, 33 to 32, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 2 each to Arena Analytics and Pulsifi, with 3 level, and the weighted points on the side Pulsifi holds, headed by Human Oversight Design, settle the total. Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arena Analytics 38, Pulsifi 55 — and at a 12% weight it carries 76% of the weighted advantage Pulsifi holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Arena Analytics2
- Pulsifi2
- Level3
- Widest raw gap
- Human Oversight Design38 vs 55
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Human Oversight Design12% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Arena Analytics | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Human Oversight Design
12% weight53% of the movement so far
Arena Analytics38Pulsifi552.0 weighted points to Pulsifi
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight76% of the movement so far
Arena Analytics25Pulsifi200.9 weighted points to Arena Analytics
- 3
Customer Documentation
8% weight92% of the movement so far
Arena Analytics38Pulsifi460.6 weighted points to Pulsifi
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Arena Analytics42Pulsifi400.3 weighted points to Arena Analytics
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Pulsifi, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 46 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 32F | 33F | -1 | -1.5 |
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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 7 | 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 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 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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