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Gust Equity Management

5Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Gust Equity Management was named 2 times in Cap table management, where Carta led with 44%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business7 of 33

under the label threshold

Mid-market10 of 41

under the label threshold

Enterprise36 of 39

under the label threshold

In cap table management · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Gust Equity Management 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
Cap table management	Equity and corporate	2%	10 of 41	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Carta at 44%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Gust Equity Management 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 Gust Equity Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Gust Equity Management is the budget-friendly option for very early-stage companies and first-time founders, offering a free tier” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cap table management · budget prompt · first choice

“Pre-seed / <25 stakeholders | Gust Equities (free tier)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cap table management · negative 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 Gust Equity Management, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gust Equity Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Carta4 of 50Not in the top three

Pulley3 of 51Not in the top three

Cake Equity3 of 50Not in the top three

Eqvista3 of 50Not in the top three

Ledgy2 of 50Not in the top three

Mantle2 of 50Not in the top three

Microsoft Excel2 of 50Not in the top three

Shareworks2 of 50Not in the top three

Certent Equity Management1 of 51Not in the top three

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions1 of 51Not 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 Gust Equity Management. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Gust Equity Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cakeequity.com4

eqvista.com4

blog.withmantle.com3

story.law3

valueaddvc.com3

waveup.com3

aifundingtracker.com2

capterra.com2

cheqly.com2

guideflow.com2

Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Gust Equity Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cakeequity.com/guides/best-cap-table-software4

eqvista.com/cap-table-management-software-startups3

story.law/blog/best-cap-table-management-software-20263

waveup.com/blog/best-cap-table-management-software3

aifundingtracker.com/best-cap-table-management-software2

blog.withmantle.com/best-cap-table-management-software-for-startups2

capterra.com/p/220278/Carta/reviews2

cheqly.com/best-cap-table-software-startups2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Gust Equity Management

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

Gust Equities 1Gust Equity Management (GEM) 1

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