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Exec

66Judge labels
11First choices
3Negative labels
11 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.
Best standing
13% in Coaching platforms for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 116 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 27 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In coaching platforms · 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 Exec 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
Coaching platformsLearning and development13%3 of 1164%27accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Exec 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 Exec across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash10102
Perplexity Sonar02002
Grok 4.1 Fast11002
Mistral Small20002
DeepSeek V4 Flash12104
Llama 4 Maverick21003
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K202204
GLM 4.7 FlashX02013
MiniMax M2.503003

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
Direct18 labels5
Paraphrase12 labels2
Comparative15 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels2
Scale-constrained7 labels2
Negative4 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative66 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 12 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.

“#1 on G2 for ease of use; hybrid human + AI roleplay; structured programs linking coaching to performance metrics.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Coaching platforms · direct prompt · first choice
“the best digital coaching marketplace for a mid-sized B2B company would be Growthspace or Exec.com” Llama 4 Maverick · Coaching platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Given you're at 500 people, I'd prioritize Growthspace, Exec.com, Torch, or CoachHub” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Coaching platforms · scale prompt · first choice
“If your primary coaching goal is driving revenue and GTM alignment, Exec is unmatched.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Coaching platforms · direct 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.

“Not ideal for very tight budgets, but worth keeping on your radar as your company grows” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Exec, over the 66 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Exec was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BetterUp53 of 6616Not in the top three
CoachHub53 of 667Not in the top three
Torch38 of 661Not in the top three
Risely34 of 666Not in the top three
EZRA26 of 660Not in the top three
Valence22 of 660Not in the top three
Coachello19 of 662Not in the top three
Bravely10 of 660Not 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 Exec. 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 61 of the 66 answers that named Exec and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

boon-health.com59
coachstackhub.ai39
coachello.ai33
torch.io32
exec.comYour site30
easygenerator.com26
coachilly.com18
zendikt.com18
360learning.com17
coachhub.com16

258 of the 288 domain citations in answers naming Exec came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Exec

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Exec; a claim can dispute any of them.
Exec.com 22Exec (exec.com) 1
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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 Exec'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 Exec, 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 exec.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.