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Index Vendors › CharlieHR · September 2026 Edition
1 category · Named, not ranked

CharlieHR

13Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
7 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
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. CharlieHR was named 1 time in Leave, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In leave · 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 CharlieHR 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll0%57 of 890%1under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CharlieHR 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 CharlieHR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative2 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative3 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 3 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 CharlieHR, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CharlieHR was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BambooHR5 of 130Not in the top three
Small Improvements4 of 130Not in the top three
Gusto3 of 132Not in the top three
Effy AI3 of 130Not in the top three
FeedbackPulse3 of 130Not in the top three
Lattice3 of 130Not in the top three
Rippling3 of 130Not in the top three
Teamflect3 of 130Not in the top three
Workday3 of 130Not in the top three
GoCo2 of 131Not 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 CharlieHR. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named CharlieHR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com10
charliehr.comYour site9
betterworks.com5
workhuman.com5
capterra.com4
firsthr.app4
forbes.com4
nanoglobals.com4
effy.ai3
feedbackpulse.com3

Forty-two of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming CharlieHR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CharlieHR

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CharlieHR; a claim can dispute any of them.
Sapling/CharlieHR 1
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 CharlieHR'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 CharlieHR, 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 charliehr.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.

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