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Entity management for enterprise buyers

Asked as “legal entity management software”, and as “corporate governance and entity management tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.

Standing

Diligent Entities

Contested

30% of first choices, contested.

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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

Small business

EntityKeeper25%ContestedStanding →Mid-market

Athennian18%ContestedStanding →Enterprise

Diligent Entities30%ContestedThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.

ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant

Diligent Entities12%40endorsed leader

Athennian8%37accepted challenger

CSC Entity Management18%33accepted challenger

Computershare GEMS21%29accepted challenger

Wolters Kluwer Legisway8%13accepted challenger

EntityKeeper36%14criticized challenger

Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate

CT Corporation Entity Management10%10accepted challenger

MinuteBox9%11accepted challenger

Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Head to head

Athennian vs EntityKeeper Athennian vs Commenda EntityKeeper vs Commenda

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default

Negative label rate →

Accepted challengerEndorsed leader

0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%

Key

Diligent Entities30%

Athennian20%

CSC Entity Management11%

Computershare GEMS2%

Wolters Kluwer Legisway2%

EntityKeeper2%

MinuteBox0%

CT Corporation Entity Management0%

02What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.

CSC Entity Management

18%

6 of 33 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative

“large enterprises should be cautious about or avoid the following types of entity management tools: 1. **Heavy Corporate Services Firms (e.g., CSC Global, Intertrust, Computershare)**” Mistral Small, negative prompt

Computershare GEMS

21%

6 of 29 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative

“**Heavy Corporate Services Firms (e.g., CSC Global, Intertrust, Computershare)** ... overly complex and expensive for most large enterprises” Mistral Small, negative prompt

EntityKeeper

36%

5 of 14 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative

“Legacy/Standalone Entity Databases (e.g., Basic Spreadsheets or Early CRMs like Generic "EntityKeeper" for Scale-Up Beyond Small Portfolios)” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt

Microsoft Excel

100%

4 of 4 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 4 hard negative

“Large enterprises should strongly avoid relying on spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, or manual processes for entity management.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

66 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 947 links across 190 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

worldmetrics.org

33 answers · 81 citations · 9 models

diligent.com

vendor site · Diligent31 answers · 62 citations · 9 models

coverpin.com

vendor site · Coverpin26 answers · 27 citations · 10 models

f6s.com

23 answers · 25 citations · 9 models

gitnux.org

21 answers · 35 citations · 8 models

discern.com

vendor site · Discern20 answers · 26 citations · 10 models

athennian.com

vendor site · Athennian19 answers · 28 citations · 9 models

kurums.com

19 answers · 20 citations · 8 models

anywherer.com

19 answers · 19 citations · 9 models

g2.com

18 answers · 32 citations · 9 models

getapp.com

16 answers · 21 citations · 9 models

blog.9cv9.com

16 answers · 17 citations · 10 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

coverpin.com/resources/top-10-entity-management-tools-compared

25 answers · 9 models

worldmetrics.org/best/entity-management-software

20 answers · 9 models

anywherer.com/best-corporate-entity-management-software

19 answers · 9 models

f6s.com/software/category/legal-entity-management

19 answers · 9 models

kurums.com/best-entity-management-software-2026-comparison

19 answers · 8 models

worldmetrics.org/best/entity-software

16 answers · 9 models

blog.9cv9.com/top-10-entity-management-software-to-use-in-2026

15 answers · 10 models

techbullion.com/the-6-best-entity-management-tools-in-2026

15 answers · 8 models

worldmetrics.org/best/corporate-entity-management-software

15 answers · 8 models

worldmetrics.org/best/legal-entity-management-software

15 answers · 9 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.

ModelDirect“What is the best legal entity management software for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which corporate governance and entity management tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade entity management tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best legal entity management software for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a legal entity management software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which entity management tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”

Claude Haiku 4.5Diligent Entities

One alternative

CT Corporation Entity Management

Diligent, Nasdaq Governance ServicesChanged

Two alternatives

Computershare GEMS, Equinix

Diligent Entities

Three alternatives

Athennian, Commenda, DiliTrust Governance Suite

against: CSC Entity ManagementAthennian, Diligent

One alternative

MinuteBox

no first choiceagainst: Microsoft Excel

GPT-5.4 miniDiligent Entities

Two alternatives

CT Corporation Entity Management, Wolters Kluwer Legisway

DiligentChanged

Two alternatives

Diligent Boards, Diligent Entities

no first choiceWolters Kluwer Legisway

One alternative

Diligent Entities

no first choicenothing named

Gemini 3.5 FlashAthennian

Four alternatives

CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Diligent Entities, MinuteBox

AthennianHeld

Two alternatives

Computershare GEMS, Diligent Entities

against: CSC Entity ManagementDiligent Entities

Five alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, MinuteBox, Wolters Kluwer

CSC Entity Management

Four alternatives

Athennian, EntityKeeper, Filejet, MinuteBox

against: Diligent Entities, salesforce-based legal packagesAthennian

Two alternatives

CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS

against: Diligent Entitiesagainst: Blueprint OneWorld, Computershare GEMS, Diligent Boards, EntityKeeper, Filejet, Microsoft Excel, OnBoard, SharePoint

Perplexity SonarDiligent Entities

Two alternatives

Computershare GEMS, Wolters Kluwer Legisway

against: Athennian, CSC Entity Management, Commenda, MinuteBoxDiligent EntitiesHeld

Three alternatives

MetricStream, OneTrust, ServiceNow GRC

no first choiceCSC Entity Management

One alternative

Wolters Kluwer Legisway

no first choiceagainst: EntityKeeper

Grok 4.1 FastAthennian, Diligent Entities

One alternative

Computershare GEMS

Diligent EntitiesChanged

Two alternatives

Computershare GEMS, MetricStream

against: AthennianDiligent Entities

Four alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, EnGlobe

EntityKeeper

One alternative

CSC/CT Corp

against: Athennian, DiligentDiligen

Two alternatives

Klea, Teamed

against: Blueprint OneWorld, CSC Entity Management, CT Corporation Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Diligent Entities, Encompass, EntityKeeper, Sage Intacct

Mistral SmallCommenda

Two alternatives

DiliTrust Governance Suite, LegalX

Diligent EntitiesChanged

One alternative

Computershare GEMS

no first choiceLextreeDiligent Entities

Four alternatives

Conga Compliance Cloud, Covisint, Ontra, PwC's GLIMR

against: CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Intertrust

DeepSeek V4 FlashDiligent Entities

Two alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management

Diligent EntitiesHeld

Two alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management

Diligent Entities

Five alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management, DiliTrust Governance Suite, EntityKeeper, Wolters Kluwer Legisway

against: Computershare GEMSAthennian

Two alternatives

EntityKeeper, NEWTON

against: CSC / CT Corporation, Diligent Entities, XakiaAthennian

Two alternatives

Diligent Entities, MinuteBox

against: CT/CSC, EntityKeeper, Wolters Kluwer Legiswaynothing named

Llama 4 MaverickLegalX

One alternative

GSI

EnGlobeChanged

Two alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management

no first choiceLegalX

Two alternatives

Discern, Wolters Kluwer Legisway

no first choicenothing named

Qwen 3.7 FlashDiscern

Four alternatives

Computershare GEMS, HighQ, Mitratech, OneTrust

Diligent BoardsChanged

Two alternatives

Athennian, Workiva

Diligent One Platform

Two alternatives

Onit, Trustmoor

against: Generic OptionsLextreeagainst: Computershare GEMS, Diligentno first choiceagainst: Commenda, Diligent Entities, Discern, Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel

Kimi K2Diligent Entities

Two alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management

Diligent EntitiesHeld

Three alternatives

CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, MetricStream

Computershare GEMS, EnGlobe

Four alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management, CT Corporation Entity Management, Diligent Entities

CSC Entity Management

One alternative

Diligent Entities

against: EntityFlono first choicenothing named

GLM 4.7 FlashXDiligent Entities

Two alternatives

Atlas, Computershare GEMS

DiligentChanged

Two alternatives

Computershare GEMS, EnGlobe

against: CartaEnGlobe

Eight alternatives

Athennian, CSC Entity Management, Carta, Computershare GEMS, Corporify, DiliTrust Governance Suite, Diligent Entities, EntityKeeper

Athennian, Lextree

Three alternatives

CSC Entity Management, Filejet, MinuteBox

no first choiceagainst: CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Dropbox, Intertrust, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint

MiniMax M2.5Athennian, Diligent EntitiesCSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMSChanged

Two alternatives

Athennian, Carta

CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS

Four alternatives

Athennian, Carta, Diligent Entities, EntityKeeper

CSC Entity Managementagainst: EntityKeeper, Xakiano first choicenothing named

Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record

Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.

Prompt	Model	Version string	Time (UTC)	Searched	Sources	Latency
Direct recommendation	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 19:12	yes	9	8 s
Direct recommendation	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 20:48	yes	3	7 s
Direct recommendation	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 21:56	yes	14	58 s
Direct recommendation	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 17:58	yes	20	7 s
Direct recommendation	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 20:25	yes	21	14 s
Direct recommendation	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 20:59	yes	14	15 s
Direct recommendation	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra`	2026-09-17 19:35	yes	26	44 s
Direct recommendation	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 18:42	yes	5	3 s
Direct recommendation	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 20:10	yes	8	33 s
Direct recommendation	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 18:23	yes	13	26 s
Direct recommendation	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 20:04	yes	23	129 s
Direct recommendation	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 19:57	yes	8	29 s
Paraphrase	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 19:47	no	0	5 s
Paraphrase	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 19:08	yes	5	6 s
Paraphrase	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 20:11	yes	23	20 s
Paraphrase	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:46	yes	16	7 s
Paraphrase	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 21:09	yes	38	19 s
Paraphrase	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 19:40	yes	5	4 s
Paraphrase	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 18:10	yes	26	29 s
Paraphrase	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 19:37	yes	5	4 s
Paraphrase	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 20:18	yes	5	30 s
Paraphrase	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 19:39	yes	18	24 s
Paraphrase	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 21:01	yes	28	82 s
Paraphrase	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 20:21	yes	5	25 s
Comparative	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 19:45	yes	15	13 s
Comparative	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 20:45	yes	4	9 s
Comparative	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 17:54	yes	26	31 s
Comparative	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:21	yes	15	9 s
Comparative	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 19:56	yes	30	17 s
Comparative	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 18:37	yes	5	6 s
Comparative	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra`	2026-09-17 19:29	yes	27	59 s
Comparative	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 19:48	yes	5	4 s
Comparative	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 20:35	no	0	29 s
Comparative	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 20:51	yes	28	36 s
Comparative	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 19:09	yes	15	43 s
Comparative	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 20:23	yes	8	21 s
Budget constrained	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 20:29	yes	17	10 s
Budget constrained	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 19:19	yes	2	6 s
Budget constrained	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 20:12	yes	29	28 s
Budget constrained	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 18:49	yes	20	6 s
Budget constrained	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 21:03	yes	36	22 s
Budget constrained	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 19:12	yes	5	3 s
Budget constrained	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 20:52	yes	24	46 s
Budget constrained	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 21:06	yes	5	3 s
Budget constrained	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 19:33	yes	13	80 s
Budget constrained	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 20:18	yes	26	34 s
Budget constrained	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 18:54	yes	21	105 s
Budget constrained	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 18:52	yes	15	35 s
Scale constrained	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 19:19	yes	18	11 s
Scale constrained	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 18:37	no	0	10 s
Scale constrained	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 21:15	yes	13	145 s
Scale constrained	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 19:02	yes	20	14 s
Scale constrained	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 21:03	yes	15	13 s
Scale constrained	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 18:41	no	0	7 s
Scale constrained	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra`	2026-09-17 19:18	yes	29	89 s
Scale constrained	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 18:47	yes	5	4 s
Scale constrained	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 20:08	no	0	50 s
Scale constrained	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 21:01	yes	19	34 s
Scale constrained	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 18:40	yes	19	117 s
Scale constrained	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 18:36	yes	15	34 s
Negative framing	Claude Haiku 4.5	`claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`	2026-09-17 19:17	yes	18	11 s
Negative framing	GPT-5.4 mini	`gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2026-09-17 17:55	no	0	5 s
Negative framing	Gemini 3.5 Flash	`gemini-3.5-flash`	2026-09-17 20:07	yes	13	28 s
Negative framing	Perplexity Sonar	`sonar`	2026-09-17 20:34	yes	20	8 s
Negative framing	Grok 4.1 Fast	`spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex`	2026-09-17 18:07	yes	22	16 s
Negative framing	Mistral Small	`mistral/mistral-small via mistral`	2026-09-17 19:55	yes	5	7 s
Negative framing	DeepSeek V4 Flash	`deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks`	2026-09-17 21:06	yes	28	31 s
Negative framing	Llama 4 Maverick	`meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock`	2026-09-17 20:57	yes	5	4 s
Negative framing	Qwen 3.7 Flash	`alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba`	2026-09-17 20:52	yes	24	84 s
Negative framing	Kimi K2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita`	2026-09-17 21:03	yes	20	34 s
Negative framing	GLM 4.7 FlashX	`zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai`	2026-09-17 19:33	yes	19	128 s
Negative framing	MiniMax M2.5	`minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax`	2026-09-17 18:07	yes	9	44 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings

CSC read as CSC Entity Management

CSC (Corporate Service Corporation) read as CSC Entity Management

CSC (Corporation Service Company) read as CSC Entity Management

CT Corporation read as CT Corporation Entity Management

CT Corporation (Wolters Kluwer) read as CT Corporation Entity Management

Computershare read as Computershare GEMS

DiliTrust read as DiliTrust Governance Suite

Excel read as Microsoft Excel

Informatica MDM read as Informatica

Microsoft SharePoint read as SharePoint

Unresolved, counted raw

Amperity

Blueprism/UiPath-led customized flows

CSC/CT Corp

CT/CSC

Collibra

Conga Compliance Cloud

Covisint (now part of OpenText)

Diligen (DiliTrust)

EntityFlo

Equinix

GSI

Generic Options (SharePoint/Excel)

HighQ

Hightouch

LexisNexis Entity Management

LiveRamp

Nasdaq Governance Services

Ontra

Oracle MDM

PwC's GLIMR

Salesforce Data 360

Semarchy xDM

ShareFile/Citrix

TMF Group / Vistra

Tamr

Tealium

Teamed

Treasure Data

Trustmoor

Zeotap

salesforce-based legal packages

Discontinued, still offered

No shut-down product was recommended here.

Entity management for enterprise buyers

By buyer segment

01The standing

Recommended versus criticized

02What they warned about

03What they cite

Sites the answers cite

Pages the answers cite

04How they answered

05The record

Normalization in this category

Also in equity and corporate