Every category where a model named BoardEffect for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Board and investor reporting	Planning and analysis	0%	30 of 97	30%	20	criticized challenger
Entity management	Equity and corporate	0%	33 of 87	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Athennian at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BoardEffect yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated BoardEffect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	3
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	2	2
Kimi K2	1	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	0	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct10 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative12 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained12 labelsNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best for mission-driven or nonprofit-leaning mid-market organizations: BoardEffect or Aprio” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Board · direct prompt · alternative

“a strong option for mid-market boards, especially if you want a more board-governance-oriented product” Perplexity Sonar · Board · direct prompt · alternative

“BoardEffect is excellent for mid-market companies looking for a balance of features and ease of use” Mistral Small · Board · direct prompt · alternative

“Alternative Options to Consider: BoardEffect | Companies wanting collaborative features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Entity management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“I would avoid Diligent, BoardEffect, and Boardvantage if budget is the main constraint” Perplexity Sonar · Board · budget prompt · hard negative

“Strong governance and compliance features, but ensure robust support and consider your tolerance for occasional downtime.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Board · negative prompt · soft negative

“BoardEffect: Platform bugs, unintuitive document uploads, clunky minutes integration, and server downtime” Grok 4.1 Fast · Board · negative prompt · soft negative

“or BoardEffect. These are robust but can be expensive and heavy to implement.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Board · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BoardEffect, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BoardEffect was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

OnBoard34 of 466Not in the top three

Nasdaq Boardvantage28 of 464Not in the top three

Diligent Boards24 of 468Not in the top three

Boardable24 of 465Not in the top three

Diligent15 of 461Not in the top three

AppDeck Board Portal13 of 462Not in the top three

Azeus Convene12 of 460Not in the top three

BoardPro11 of 462Not in the top three

Aprio Board Portal10 of 461Not in the top three

Board Intelligence9 of 460Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named BoardEffect. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 41 of the 46 answers that named BoardEffect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appdeck.com32

worldmetrics.org26

board-room.org24

boardintelligence.com19

clearpointstrategy.com19

fast.io17

g2.com17

getaleph.com15

capterra.com14

diligent.com11

194 of the 194 domain citations in answers naming BoardEffect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

appdeck.com/blog/board-reporting-software-comparison24

worldmetrics.org/best/board-reporting-software21

clearpointstrategy.com/blog/board-reporting-software19

board-room.org/blog/board-reporting-software17

appdeck.com/blog/board-portal-software-comparison-202615

getaleph.com/answers/board-investor-reporting-software15

worldmetrics.org/best/board-report-software12

getfairview.com/best/board-reporting-software11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as BoardEffect

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as BoardEffect; a claim can dispute any of them.

BoardEffect (Diligent brand) 1BoardEffect (Diligent) 1BoardEffect (by Nasdaq) 1

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