Every category where a model named Blink 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
Frontline employee apps	Onboarding and employee experience	14%	2 of 97	5%	37	accepted challenger
Internal communications and intranet	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	23 of 80	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Happeo at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Blink 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 Blink 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	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	1	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	2	2	1	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	3	2	0	7
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	1	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	2	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	2	0	2
Kimi K2	0	4	1	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	3	0	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	2	0	3

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

Direct33 labels7

Paraphrase20 labels2

Comparative33 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained24 labels7

Scale-constrained15 labels2

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative134 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 19 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.

“Blink is a highly-rated app that is specifically designed for frontline or deskless workforces... It offers a free plan and paid plans starting at $3.75/user/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · first choice

“Prioritize mobile-first platforms like Blink, Beekeeper, Staffbase... (e.g., Blink for simplicity, Staffbase for enterprise depth)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Frontline employee apps · scale prompt · first choice

“For most mid‑market B2B companies, Blink is the best all‑round choice for a dedicated frontline communication app” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice

“the strongest default choice is Blink if your workforce is primarily frontline or deskless” Perplexity Sonar · Frontline employee apps · direct 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.

“Staffbase or Blink, but these are typically not the best budget choices” GPT-5.4 mini · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · soft negative

“at $3.75/user/month (annual), but only a 14-day trial” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Blink, over the 134 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Blink was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Connecteam103 of 13453Compare →

Staffbase77 of 13410Not in the top three

Beekeeper55 of 1348Compare →

MangoApps39 of 1345Not in the top three

WorkJam39 of 1345Not in the top three

Microsoft Teams30 of 1342Not in the top three

Workvivo30 of 1342Not in the top three

Firstup29 of 1340Not in the top three

Homebase26 of 1341Not in the top three

Deputy22 of 1340Not 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 Blink. 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 123 of the 134 answers that named Blink and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mangoapps.com89

joinblink.com86

guideflow.com65

staffbase.com63

changeengine.com52

redeapp.com46

peoplemanagingpeople.com43

getzelos.com42

crewcheck.io30

g2.com30

546 of the 546 domain citations in answers naming Blink came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

joinblink.com/intelligence/best-employee-communication-apps55

staffbase.com/blog/frontline-communication-tools52

changeengine.com/articles/frontline-communication-tools51

mangoapps.com/articles/frontline-communication-platforms-guide51

redeapp.com/blog/best-employee-communication-apps-frontline-workers46

mangoapps.com/articles/best-frontline-communication-software43

getzelos.com/best-frontline-employee-apps40

crewcheck.io/blog/best-frontline-employee-communication-apps30

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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