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Index › Vendors › Gatekeeper · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Gatekeeper

3Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

3 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Gatekeeper was named 3 times in Contingent workforce man, where SimpleVMS led with 35%. 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-market16 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In contingent workforce man · 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 Gatekeeper 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
Contingent workforce management	Workforce planning and analytics	2%	16 of 97	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by SimpleVMS at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Gatekeeper 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 Gatekeeper across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

“is SimpleVMS, Worksuite, Conexis VMS, Gatekeeper, or Procurify” Llama 4 Maverick · Contingent workforce man · 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 procurement tools like Procurify or Gatekeeper” Perplexity Sonar · Contingent workforce man · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Gatekeeper, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gatekeeper was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Procurify3 of 30Not in the top three

SimpleVMS2 of 31Not in the top three

Conexis VMS2 of 30Not in the top three

Worksuite2 of 30Not in the top three

Magnit1 of 31Not in the top three

Beeline1 of 30Not in the top three

Kissflow Procurement1 of 30Not in the top three

Precoro1 of 30Not in the top three

SAP Fieldglass1 of 30Not in the top three

Workday VNDLY1 of 30Not 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 Gatekeeper. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named Gatekeeper and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bestrecruitingtools.com3

conexisvmssoftware.com3

hrtechsaas.com3

getapp.com2

talentdesk.io2

zapro.ai2

aihratlas.com1

axiobench.com1

beeline.com1

broadleafresults.com1

Nineteen of the nineteen domain citations in answers naming Gatekeeper came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/vendor-management-system-vms-software-enterprise-20263

hrtechsaas.com/blog/best-vendor-management-system-contingent-workforce3

conexisvmssoftware.com/2

talentdesk.io/blog/best-vendor-management-systems2

zapro.ai/vendor-management/best-vendor-management-software-for-smes2

aihratlas.com/categories/contingent-workforce-management1

axiobench.com/best/vms-recruitment-software1

beeline.com/resources/factsheet/how-to-achieve-contingent-workforce-cost-savings-using-a-v1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Gatekeeper'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 Gatekeeper, 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 gatekeeperhq.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.