1 category · Named, not rankedAscensus
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401(k) providers | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 75 of 78 | 60% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Human Interest at 20% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Ascensus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
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.
“Ascensus, which handled the Vanguard transfer of 401(k)s so badly that a class action lawsuit may be in the works.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Reddit threads (e.g., r/Bogleheads) label it "the worst company" for administration hassles” Grok 4.1 Fast · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · hard negative
“There are numerous lawsuits against Ascensus.” Muse Glimmer 30B · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ascensus, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ascensus was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 10 answers that named Ascensus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-three of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Ascensus came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,510 | 8 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| News or press | 102 | undated | Benefits administration | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 38 | 0 | 2022-01-13 | ||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-10-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | 0 | 2022-06-02 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2021-12-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17Whoor whatcan inherit an ira blog
- 2026-09-17Things to consider as simple ira deadline looms blog
- 2026-09-17What is the secure 20 long term care provision glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-17What is the consequence of taking a coverdell esa nonqualified distribution glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-17Adopting a safe harbor 401k plan blog
- 2026-07-16Forms 1099 r and 5498 small changes big implications for 2026 reporting blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ascensus.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
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The company
Ascensus is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Retirement Plan and Savings Solutions
- For
- Individuals, advisors, institutions, employers, TPAs, banks, credit unions, financial institutions, and state governments
- Certifications
- member FINRA / SIPCSEC registered RIAFINRASIPCmember FINRA/SIPCSEC
- Customers named
- Control Instruments Corporation
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Ascensus's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: ascensus.com, ascensus.com/security, ascensus.com/solutions/insurance, ascensus.com/who-we-serve/institutional-partners/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of 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 Ascensus'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 Ascensus, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Ascensus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Ascensus 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 Ascensus, 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.