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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Google Docs

5Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

4 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. Google Docs was named 3 times in Course authoring tools and 1 other category, where Articulate 360 led with 22%. 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-market72 of 86

under the label threshold

Enterprise73 of 80

under the label threshold

In course authoring tools · 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 Google Docs 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
Course authoring tools	Learning and development	0%	72 of 86	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Articulate 360 at 22%
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	55 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“the sources specifically caution against Google Docs for long creative projects” Perplexity Sonar · Course authoring tools · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Docs, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Docs was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Adobe Captivate3 of 50Not in the top three

Articulate Storyline2 of 51Not in the top three

Canva2 of 51Not in the top three

Articulate Rise 3602 of 50Not in the top three

Confluence2 of 50Not in the top three

Notion2 of 50Not in the top three

Lucidchart1 of 51Not in the top three

Zoho People1 of 51Not in the top three

Adobe RoboHelp1 of 50Not in the top three

Asana1 of 50Not 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 Google Docs. 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 4 of the 5 answers that named Google Docs and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

elearningindustry.com3

learnopsrev.com2

reedsy.com2

adlnet.gov1

adoc-studio.app1

aigrowthagent.co1

appadvisor.in1

atomisystems.com1

author-it.com1

blog.hubspot.com1

Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Google Docs came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

elearningindustry.com/the-authoring-tool-market-has-changed-how-to-choose-wisely-in-20262

learnopsrev.com/content-lock-in2

eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37066/1/TAP_Chapter_The_Authoring_Tool_Evaluation_Problem_v4.pdf1

adlnet.gov/assets/uploads/ChoosingAuthoringTools.docx1

adoc-studio.app/blog/choosing-a-documentation-tool1

aigrowthagent.co/articles/best-enterprise-ai-writing-platforms1

appadvisor.in/software/zoho-people1

atomisystems.com/elearning/the-ultimate-guide-to-selecting-business-training-software-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Docs

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

DocuSign + Google Docs 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 Google Docs'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 Google Docs, 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 google.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.