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Predictive workforce intelligence. Precise decisions. Systemic impact.

Today’s talent systems are built on hindsight: past experience, past skills, and keyword matches. But the market is moving faster than those signals can track. Arena takes a labor economist’s view of the whole system, combining your workforce outcomes with labor market models to anticipate the talent you’ll need and put people where they’ll thrive.

Arena’s Story

What began as a better way to identify talent is becoming a better way to move it.

Mike Rosenbaum has spent his career questioning whether the traditional signals used to evaluate talent actually predict success. Resumes can reflect someone’s background, education, and access to opportunity, but they do not necessarily reveal who will perform well in a particular job. As an empirical labor economist, Mike believed data could provide a better answer. He first applied that idea through Catalyte, using predictive technology to identify people with the potential to become top-performing software engineers, even when their credentials would have caused traditional hiring systems to overlook them. Catalyte became one of the largest technology apprenticeship platforms in the United States. Arena grew from the same idea applied to a different workforce challenge. After a hospital executive asked whether data could help address high turnover, Mike assembled a team to answer two questions: Could they predict whether someone would stay in a specific job, under a specific manager, on a specific shift, and at a specific location? And could they deliver that insight in a way that helped hiring managers make a different decision? The answer became Arena. What started with Retention Prediction, with a goal of reducing turnover, has continued to evolve significantly. With workforce outcomes from millions of people, Arena can see potential that may not yet be visible to either the employer or the individual. That makes it possible not only to improve hiring decisions, but to move people from shrinking parts of the economy into growing ones, and connect them with work where they can build a successful future. We're unlocking human potential at scale to build a more resilient, dynamic workforce.

Keywords don’t predict outcomes

Hiring has become noisier, not more predictive. Resumes are easier to generate, keywords are easier to match, and AI tools promise faster decisions without improving outcomes. Seeing beyond the resume to predict long-term success is the only reliable way to build a stable workforce. That’s why Arena solves these problems differently.

Regional Demand Evolution

Labor markets are shifting faster than traditional systems can track. Arena identifies overlooked talent and helps move people from shrinking parts of the economy into growing industries, roles, and regional workforces where they are more likely to succeed.

Candidate Ghosting

Traditional hiring pipelines can’t detect commitment. Arena uses predictive analytics to identify behavioral intent before an offer is made. This lets hiring teams prioritize candidates most likely to follow through.

Workforce Foresight

Traditional systems only show where your workforce has been, not where it’s going. Arena gives leaders the clarity to see around corners; allowing you to predict the unpredictable, anticipate market disruptions, and fortify your organization for whatever comes next.

Our vision

The clear path to workforce stability

Arena started with a simple goal: help companies reduce turnover. Today, we blend the real experience and outcomes of millions of workers with local, national, and industry data to build stable teams without human bias. As industries and economies shift, Arena provides the steady data engine leaders need to protect their organizations and maintain workforce strength.

Born in a lab

Arena starts inside Catalyte to find a better, unbiased way to predict turnover.

The healthcare blueprint

A major healthcare launch proves the model can reduce turnover across a wide range of roles.

Multi-industry scale

We expand into hospitality, education, and government workforce boards, proving our data engine fits any sector.

4 million outcomes

Arena reaches a massive data milestone, giving leaders broader visibility into workforce patterns.

Systemic economic routing

Arena evolves into infrastructure that moves talent from shrinking fields into growing industries.

The Arena approach

A better way to hire and keep great teams

Arena pairs individual career outcomes with real-time performance data to predict where people will succeed next. We go beyond what traditional resumes and keywords can reveal. As AI and economic disruption reshape the workforce, Arena helps organizations route talent toward emerging opportunities, strengthening hiring, retention, and long-term workforce resilience.

4.2M+

Workers modeled across the largest outcome-based workforce dataset, capturing real careers across roles, industries, and regions.

3 weeks

Average time-to-hire by finding the right people faster.

21%

Average improvement in first-year retention, driven by prioritizing candidates most likely to succeed in a specific role.

4x

Return on investment in year one, achieved through reduced turnover and improved hiring decisions.

Meet the Team

Arena’s Leadership Team

Board of Directors

“In just the first four months after rollout, 90-day turnover wasreduced by 37%!”

– EVP & COO Regional Health System of 20K+ employees

See how the Arena approach can make an impact at your organization

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