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Index Vendors › ClearCompany · September 2026 Edition
5 categories · Ranked

ClearCompany

22Judge labels
1First choices
2Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
5Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Employee onboarding for mid-market buyers
Rank 24 of 104 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In employee onboarding · 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 ClearCompany 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
Employee onboardingOnboarding and employee experience0%24 of 10420%5under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Performance managementPerformance and talent management0%21 of 600%4under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41%
Succession planningPerformance and talent management0%34 of 990%2under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
360 feedbackPerformance and talent management0%29 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%52 of 1620%1under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ClearCompany 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 ClearCompany 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 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX02114
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.

“You already use a separate payroll/benefits provider and just need strong onboarding | ClearCompany or TriNet” MiniMax M2.5 · Employee onboarding · direct prompt · alternative
“If you need succession as part of a broader HRIS/payroll ecosystem → Paylocity or ClearCompany” Kimi K2 · Succession planning · direct prompt · alternative
“Want one suite for hiring + performance + mobility: ClearCompany or similar bundled talent suites.” GPT-5.4 mini · Succession planning · comparative prompt · alternative
“ClearCompany | Mid‑market, HRIS + performance | Good HRIS integration, customizable workflows” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Performance management · scale 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.

“Cons: Larger enterprise focus; can be complex to implement.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee onboarding · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ClearCompany, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ClearCompany was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BambooHR14 of 224Not in the top three
Lattice9 of 222Not in the top three
Workday9 of 222Not in the top three
Rippling8 of 221Not in the top three
Deel7 of 221Not in the top three
HiBob7 of 220Not in the top three
15Five6 of 220Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors5 of 221Not in the top three
Betterworks5 of 220Not in the top three
Culture Amp4 of 222Not 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 ClearCompany. 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 19 of the 22 answers that named ClearCompany and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com10
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
forbes.com6
hrcloud.com5
betterworks.com4
hr.university4
bestrecruitingtools.com3
cultureamp.com3
doozy.live3
firsthr.app3

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming ClearCompany came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 ClearCompany'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 ClearCompany, 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 clearcompany.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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