Every category where a model named Employee Navigator 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
Benefits administration	Core HR and payroll	20%	2 of 54	2%	43	accepted challenger
Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accounts	Compensation and total rewards	4%	5 of 76	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Compt at 30%

Movement

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

Direct13 labelsNone

Paraphrase21 labels5

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained20 labels8

Scale-constrained10 labels4

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative90 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 18 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.

“Employee Navigator: The industry-standard platform for broker-managed benefits. Highly likely your benefits broker is already certified to build and manage this for you.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Benefits administration · scale prompt · first choice

“my default recommendation would be Employee Navigator if your main need is flexible benefits administration” GPT-5.4 mini · Flexible benefits · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Top pick for broker-supported setups ... Start with Employee Navigator if broker-involved” Grok 4.1 Fast · Benefits administration · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“For the most limited budget: Start with Employee Navigator (free via broker)” Kimi K2 · Benefits administration · budget 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.

“but may not be suitable for those without a broker relationship” Llama 4 Maverick · Benefits administration · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Employee Navigator, over the 90 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Employee Navigator was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Rippling61 of 9014Compare →

Gusto56 of 9019Not in the top three

PlanSource48 of 9010Compare →

Ease40 of 900Not in the top three

bswift35 of 902Not in the top three

Benefitfocus31 of 901Not in the top three

Paycor30 of 901Not in the top three

ADP Workforce Now29 of 905Not in the top three

Paylocity25 of 900Not in the top three

Workday HCM20 of 905Not 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 Employee Navigator. 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 79 of the 90 answers that named Employee Navigator and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com48

aibusinessgeek.com32

g2.com32

gartner.com28

gusto.com28

hrstacksolutions.com26

testlify.com26

worldmetrics.org24

cxeverywhere.com23

hrtechsaas.com23

290 of the 290 domain citations in answers naming Employee Navigator came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/benefits-administration-software42

aibusinessgeek.com/articles/ai-benefits-administration-software-202632

gartner.com/reviews/market/benefits-management28

gusto.com/resources/guides/best-benefits-admin-software27

testlify.com/top-benefits-administration-tools26

hrstacksolutions.com/blog/benefits-enrollment-software24

cxeverywhere.com/tools/benefits-administration-software23

hrtechsaas.com/blog/best-benefits-administration-software-mid-market22

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Employee Navigator

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Employee Navigator; a claim can dispute any of them.

Ease / Employee Navigator 1

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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 employeenavigator.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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