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1 category · Named, not ranked

Bain

7Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, 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. Bain was named 2 times in Compensation benchmarkin, where Payscale led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market58 of 144

under the label threshold

Enterprise77 of 134

under the label threshold

In compensation benchmarkin · 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 Bain 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
Compensation benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	0%	58 of 144	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
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	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Bain, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bain was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deloitte7 of 70Not in the top three

Computer Economics6 of 70Not in the top three

KPMG6 of 70Not in the top three

Gartner5 of 71Not in the top three

BCG4 of 70Not in the top three

PwC4 of 70Not in the top three

APQC3 of 70Not in the top three

EY3 of 70Not in the top three

McKinsey3 of 70Not in the top three

Accenture2 of 70Not 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 Bain. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Bain and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worldmetrics.org7

zipdo.co7

gitnux.org6

ravio.com3

ftop.ch2

isg-one.com2

library.hbs.edu2

mlcommons.org2

thehackettgroup.com2

wifitalents.com2

Thirty-five of the thirty-five domain citations in answers naming Bain came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

worldmetrics.org/service/it-benchmarking7

zipdo.co/service/it-benchmarking6

gitnux.org/service/corporate-benchmarking5

worldmetrics.org/service/benchmarking4

worldmetrics.org/service/corporate-benchmarking4

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies3

zipdo.co/service/corporate-benchmarking3

ftop.ch/7-pittfalls-avoid-benchmarking2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 bain.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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