Every category where a model named Ashby 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
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	7%	5 of 84	21%	14	accepted challenger
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	7%	5 of 50	0%	26	accepted challenger
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	2%	11 of 88	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	2%	12 of 77	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
Interview scheduling	Talent acquisition	2%	11 of 72	0%	15	accepted challenger
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	0%	26 of 81	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
Job advertising and distribution	Talent acquisition	0%	38 of 109	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	3	0	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	5	3	3	0	11
Perplexity Sonar	0	5	0	1	6
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	6	2	1	9
Mistral Small	2	3	2	0	7
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	6	1	0	7
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	6	0	0	7
Kimi K2	1	4	3	1	9
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1

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

Direct36 labels5

Paraphrase33 labels6

Comparative29 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained19 labelsNone

Negative15 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative136 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 14 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.

“I'd usually recommend Ashby if you want the best balance of recruiting coordination, ATS workflow, and scalability” GPT-5.4 mini · Interview scheduling · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Ideal for startups and mid-market companies needing a unified system for ATS, CRM, scheduling, and analytics.” Mistral Small · AI recruiting assistants · direct prompt · first choice

“The Best All-in-One Platform: Ashby ... highly popular among mid-market B2B and VC-backed tech companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruiting CRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend Ashby if you need a full ATS replacement, or Spark Hire if you already have an ATS” Kimi K2 · AI recruiting assistants · paraphrase 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.

“Potentially Greenhouse, Lever (by Employ), Ashby (FCRA investigations for AI screening/interviews)” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

“Has a learning curve; avoid if your team wants simplicity” Kimi K2 · AI recruiting assistants · direct prompt · soft negative

“less "AI recruiter" and more ATS/workflow platforms” Perplexity Sonar · AI recruiting assistants · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ashby, over the 136 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ashby was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Greenhouse93 of 13624Not in the top three

Lever76 of 1364Not in the top three

Workable61 of 13610Not in the top three

Gem37 of 1367Not in the top three

hireEZ28 of 1361Not in the top three

Workday Recruiting26 of 1360Not in the top three

Breezy HR23 of 1366Not in the top three

iCIMS23 of 1363Not in the top three

GoodTime21 of 1366Not in the top three

Eightfold AI21 of 1361Not 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 Ashby. 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 100 of the 136 answers that named Ashby and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com42

greenhouse.com41

g2.com36

pin.com36

hiretruffle.com31

metaview.ai26

learn.g2.com24

peoplemanagingpeople.com22

lever.co21

noon.ai21

300 of the 300 domain citations in answers naming Ashby came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/applicant-tracking-systems22

greenhouse.com/blog/best-ai-recruiting-software15

pinpointhq.com/insights/best-applicant-tracking-system15

metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms14

pin.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems14

ventureharbour.com/applicant-tracking-systems13

learn.g2.com/best-talent-intelligence-software12

100hires.com/best-ats-for-mid-market-companies.html11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Ashby'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 Ashby, 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 ashbyhq.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.