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1 category · Named, not ranked

Small Improvements

6Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

6 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Small Improvements was named 1 time in Corporate performance ma, where Planful led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business12 of 88

under the label threshold

Mid-market13 of 95

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In corporate performance ma · 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 Small Improvements 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
Corporate performance management	Planning and analysis	2%	13 of 95	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained4 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“Small Improvements is highlighted as the best budget option at just $3/user/month on the entry tier” Mistral Small · Corporate performance ma · budget prompt · first choice

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 Small Improvements, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Small Improvements was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Effy AI3 of 60Not in the top three

Jedox3 of 60Not in the top three

15Five2 of 61Not in the top three

Cube2 of 61Not in the top three

Zoho People2 of 61Not in the top three

Anaplan2 of 60Not in the top three

PerformYard2 of 60Not in the top three

Vena2 of 60Not in the top three

AssessTeam1 of 61Not in the top three

Jirav1 of 61Not 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 Small Improvements. 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 6 of the 6 answers that named Small Improvements and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org5

effy.ai5

gbhackers.com5

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

cybersecuritynews.com4

golimelight.com4

cubesoftware.com3

g2.com3

softwareconnect.com3

softwaresuggest.com3

Forty of the forty domain citations in answers naming Small Improvements came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/epm-tools-by-business-size-35

effy.ai/blog/performance-management-software-for-small-business5

gbhackers.com/best-epm-tools-compared-25

cybersecuritynews.com/best-endpoint-privilege-management-tools/amp4

cubesoftware.com/blog/best-epm-software3

golimelight.com/blog/best-epm-software3

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/epm-software3

softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-epm-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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