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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Eightfold

14Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Eightfold was named 3 times in Succession planning and 1 other category, where Lattice led with 31%. 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-market42 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise26 of 92

under the label threshold

In succession planning · 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 Eightfold 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
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	0%	42 of 99	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	78 of 119	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“AI‑driven talent discovery and skill matching | Eightfold” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Succession planning · comparative 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 Eightfold, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Eightfold was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workday6 of 141Not in the top three

ChartHop6 of 140Not in the top three

PeopleFluent6 of 140Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors5 of 143Not in the top three

Cornerstone OnDemand5 of 141Not in the top three

Darwinbox5 of 140Not in the top three

Lattice4 of 140Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM4 of 140Not in the top three

TalentGuard4 of 140Not in the top three

Dayforce3 of 140Not 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 Eightfold. 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 14 of the 14 answers that named Eightfold and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

darwinbox.com7

firsthr.app6

gartner.com6

guideflow.com5

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

talentguard.com5

engagedly.com4

successionstack.com4

aihr.com3

humand.co3

Forty-eight of the forty-eight domain citations in answers naming Eightfold came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

darwinbox.com/blog/8-best-succession-planning-software-enterprises7

guideflow.com/blog/succession-planning-software5

talentguard.com/blog/10-best-role-readiness-planning-software-for-20255

engagedly.com/blog/best-succession-planning-softwares4

gartner.com/reviews/market/succession-planning-technology4

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-succession-planning-software4

aihr.com/blog/succession-planning-tools3

firsthr.app/compare/core-hr/hr-ai-tools3

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 eightfold.ai is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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