§ The result
SHL leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
SHL finishes 19 points clear of Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 32 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. SHL 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. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arena Analytics 30, SHL 60, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage SHL holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
SHL
SHL is a global talent-assessment provider offering AI-scored cognitive ability, personality, behavioral, situational-judgement, coding, and video-interview assessments that score, rank, and recommend candidates for hiring and development decisions.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, SHL 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 | SHL |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · SHL 60
6.0 weighted points to SHL
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · SHL 50
4.5 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · SHL 58
2.4 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · SHL 58
2.4 weighted points to SHL
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · SHL 60
1.8 weighted points to SHL
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · SHL 40
1.4 weighted points to SHL
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · SHL 30
0.8 weighted points to SHL
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus SHL.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | SHL | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 51 (F) | -19 | -19.3 |
§ 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 | SHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 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 | 15 | 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; SHL has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for SHL, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SHL last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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