§ The result
Recruit CRM leads Arena Analytics by 8 points.
Recruit CRM scores 40 and Arena Analytics 32 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Recruit CRM: Recruit CRM is ahead on Human Oversight Design and Arena Analytics on Bias Audit Transparency. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Arena Analytics 38, Recruit CRM 60) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Human Oversight Design at 12% (Arena Analytics 38, Recruit CRM 58), 25% of the weighted advantage Recruit CRM builds across the 6 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Recruit CRM 58
2.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Recruit CRM 54
1.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Recruit CRM 60
1.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Recruit CRM 42
1.7 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Recruit CRM 34
1.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
18% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Recruit CRM 20
0.9 weighted points to Arena Analytics
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Recruit CRM 34
0.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 40 (F) | -8 | -8.9 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 5 | 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 | 30 | 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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