Every category where a model named DFIN Venue 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	Since September 2026
Virtual data rooms	Equity and corporate	0%	21 of 48	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by iDeals at 25%

Movement

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

By model

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Combines a VDR with DFIN's financial-reporting and regulatory-compliance tools.” GPT-6 Luna · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · alternative

“usually appears as an enterprise-capable option for formal deal processes” Perplexity Sonar · Virtual data rooms · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DFIN Venue, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DFIN Venue was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Datasite Diligence15 of 1512Not among the top eight

Firmex11 of 150Not among the top eight

Intralinks10 of 151Not among the top eight

Ansarada10 of 150Not among the top eight

iDeals9 of 151Not among the top eight

DealRoom7 of 150Not among the top eight

SecureDocs5 of 151Not among the top eight

ShareVault4 of 150Not among the top eight

Digify3 of 151Not among the top eight

FirmRoom3 of 150Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 DFIN Venue. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 15 answers that named DFIN Venue and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

papermark.com13

peony.ink13

bignewsnetwork.com11

agilityportal.io8

fast.io8

idealsvdr.com8

ansarada.com6

clinked.com6

v7labs.com6

dataroom-providers.org5

No domain is on file for DFIN Venue, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

bignewsnetwork.com/news/279338211/top-10-data-room-providers-the-ultimate-guide-for-busine11

peony.ink/blog/top-10-virtual-data-room-providers11

agilityportal.io/blog/7-best-virtual-data-rooms-for-m-a-dont-choose-until-you-read-this7

clinked.com/virtual-data-room-providers6

fast.io/resources/virtual-data-room-providers6

idealsvdr.com/blog/virtual-data-room/best-virtual-data-rooms-compared6

digify.com/top-10-best-virtual-data-room-providers-2025-comparison.html5

fast.io/resources/virtual-data-rooms-comparison5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where DFIN Venue stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 320 a month (“dfin venue”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 21 of 48 in virtual data rooms

Segment leader

25%

iDeals

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 15 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Follow DFIN Venue

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DFIN Venue by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DFIN Venue is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name DFIN Venue, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.