§ The result
Talkpush leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Both filed under Screening, Talkpush and Arena Analytics come out 46 and 32 under rubric v1.0, 14 points in favour of Talkpush. Talkpush leads every one of the 7 criteria, Arena Analytics none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Arena Analytics 25 to Talkpush 27. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arena Analytics 30, Talkpush 52, 20% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage Talkpush builds 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Arena Analytics and Talkpush are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Assessment.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ 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 · Talkpush 52
4.4 weighted points to Talkpush
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Talkpush 42
3.1 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Talkpush 56
2.2 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Talkpush 46
2.2 weighted points to Talkpush
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Talkpush 60
1.8 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Talkpush 27
0.3 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Talkpush 44
0.3 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.1 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 -14.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 56 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 46 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 46 (F) | -14 | -14.1 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 7 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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