§ The result
RippleMatch leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
RippleMatch sits 14 points above Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 32 — with RippleMatch filed under Sourcing and Arena Analytics under Screening. RippleMatch takes all 7 criteria and Arena Analytics none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Arena Analytics 25 to RippleMatch 27. The advantage RippleMatch holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arena Analytics 25, RippleMatch 53, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points RippleMatch 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
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is an early-career recruiting platform that sources students and recent graduates for employers' roles, ranks applicants with a 0-100 Fit Score built from criteria the recruiter configures, and adds verified skill badges, applicant review, interview scheduling and campus-event tools.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, RippleMatch under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | RippleMatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · RippleMatch 53
5.0 weighted points to RippleMatch
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · RippleMatch 46
3.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · RippleMatch 57
2.3 weighted points to RippleMatch
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · RippleMatch 60
1.8 weighted points to RippleMatch
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · RippleMatch 50
1.2 weighted points to RippleMatch
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · RippleMatch 37
1.1 weighted points to RippleMatch
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · RippleMatch 27
0.3 weighted points to RippleMatch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus RippleMatch.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | RippleMatch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 46 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 53 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 57 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 37 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 46 (F) | -14 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | RippleMatch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 35 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; RippleMatch has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and RippleMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 72 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 42 for RippleMatch, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RippleMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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