§ The result
Wonderlic leads Arena Analytics by 11 points.
Wonderlic sits 11 points above Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 43 against 32 — with Wonderlic filed under Assessment and Arena Analytics under Screening. Wonderlic leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Arena Analytics leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (Arena Analytics 25, Wonderlic 48) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Arena Analytics 30, Wonderlic 52), 36% of the weighted advantage Wonderlic builds across the 5 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
Wonderlic
Wonderlic Select (formerly WonScore) is a pre-employment assessment that combines cognitive ability, personality, and motivation tests to score and rank candidates for job fit.
§ The record
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Wonderlic 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 | Wonderlic |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1937 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arena Analytics 30 · Wonderlic 52
4.4 weighted points to Wonderlic
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Wonderlic 48
4.1 weighted points to Wonderlic
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Wonderlic 52
1.7 weighted points to Wonderlic
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Wonderlic 55
1.4 weighted points to Wonderlic
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Wonderlic 38
0.6 weighted points to Arena Analytics
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Wonderlic 33
0.6 weighted points to Wonderlic
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Wonderlic.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Wonderlic | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 52 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 48 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 43 (F) | -11 | -11.6 |
§ 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 | Wonderlic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 6 | 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; Wonderlic has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 6 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 15 for Wonderlic, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Wonderlic last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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