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Watershed

62Judge labels
10First choices
15Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
20% in ESG and carbon reporting for enterprise buyers
Rank 15 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In esg and carbon reporting · 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 Watershed 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
ESG and carbon reportingEquity and corporate0%15 of 7617%18accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Watershed 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 Watershed across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500112
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast02002
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01012
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX11013
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct5 labels2
Paraphrase16 labels8
Comparative22 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 12 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.

“It is the market leader for Scope 3 and supply chain emissions.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative prompt · first choice
“If your goal is to accurately calculate a highly complex carbon footprint across thousands of suppliers, choose Watershed or Sweep.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Watershed if: Your immediate goal is accurate carbon accounting and engaging suppliers to reduce Scope 3.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Persefoni or Watershed if your main job is carbon accounting and decarbonization.” Perplexity Sonar · ESG and carbon reporting · 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.

“Some enterprise platforms like Watershed assume dedicated sustainability staff and full custom pricing with no standard SMB tier or transparent pricing.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ESG and carbon reporting · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“rather than enterprise‑only platforms like Workiva or Watershed” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ESG and carbon reporting · budget prompt · soft negative
“the enterprise cost and complexity won't be justified” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Watershed, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Watershed was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Persefoni46 of 621Not in the top three
Workiva45 of 6220Not in the top three
IBM Envizi39 of 621Not in the top three
Sweep27 of 623Not in the top three
Novisto27 of 620Not in the top three
SAP Sustainability Control Tower22 of 620Not in the top three
Sphera20 of 620Not in the top three
Diligent ESG18 of 620Not in the top three
Salesforce Net Zero Cloud18 of 620Not in the top three
Greenly16 of 626Not 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 Watershed. 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 54 of the 62 answers that named Watershed and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com36
guideflow.com34
coolset.com23
pulsora.com22
esg-one.co19
onestopesg.com18
sopact.com16
g2.com13
horizonesg.global13
knowesg.com13

207 of the 207 domain citations in answers naming Watershed came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Watershed's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Watershed, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at watershed.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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