Every category where a model named Calamari 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
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	17 of 89	0%	15	accepted challenger
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	41 of 89	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%

Movement

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

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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative19 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“A favorite for smaller-to-medium businesses wanting powerful custom absence rules without the bloat of an enterprise system.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Leave · comparative prompt · alternative

“European-only team? Absence.io or Calamari are strong, compliant choices.” Kimi K2 · Leave · comparative prompt · alternative

“Calamari if you want a simpler, user-friendly leave tool with strong reviews.” GPT-5.4 mini · Leave · direct prompt · alternative

“both are commonly cited as budget-friendly for small teams” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce planning · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Calamari, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calamari was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Vacation Tracker36 of 4414Not in the top three

BambooHR28 of 443Not in the top three

Timetastic25 of 4411Not in the top three

LeaveBoard24 of 443Not in the top three

Rippling17 of 443Not in the top three

Day Off17 of 441Not in the top three

Connecteam13 of 441Not in the top three

Factorial13 of 440Not in the top three

Gusto11 of 441Not in the top three

Workday10 of 442Not 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 Calamari. 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 41 of the 44 answers that named Calamari and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com29

employsome.com25

peoplemanagingpeople.com24

connecteam.com14

vacationtracker.io14

capterra.com13

g2.com13

firsthr.app12

technologyadvice.com11

actiplans.com10

165 of the 165 domain citations in answers naming Calamari came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-leave-management-systems29

employsome.com/best/leave-management-software25

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-leave-management-software22

technologyadvice.com/blog/human-resources/leave-management-tools11

leapsome.com/blog/absence-management-software9

connecteam.com/leave-management-system8

actiplans.com/blog/free-leave-management-software7

attendancebot.com/blog/8-best-leave-management-software-for-small-businesses-in-20267

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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