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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Google Workspace

15Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative 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. Google Workspace was named 3 times in Internal communications and 1 other category, where Happeo led with 16%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business10 of 82

under the label threshold

Mid-market36 of 80

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In internal communications · 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 Workspace 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
Internal communications and intranet	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	36 of 80	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Happeo at 16%
Mentoring software	Learning and development	0%	30 of 55	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Together at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google Workspace 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 Workspace 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	1	1
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	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	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

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labels1

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“If you have $0\u2013$500 total: Use Google Sheets + MS Teams (DIY)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mentoring software · budget prompt · alternative

“Google Workspace (if you prefer Gmail/Google Docs)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Internal communications · paraphrase 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 Google Workspace, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Workspace was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Slack7 of 153Not in the top three

Microsoft Teams6 of 153Not in the top three

Notion6 of 150Not in the top three

Microsoft SharePoint4 of 150Not in the top three

Connecteam3 of 151Not in the top three

Jostle3 of 151Not in the top three

Staffbase3 of 151Not in the top three

Atlassian Confluence3 of 150Not in the top three

Google Sites3 of 150Not in the top three

Calendly2 of 152Not 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 Workspace. 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 8 of the 15 answers that named Google Workspace and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

blog.jostle.me2

firsthr.app2

g2.com2

happeo.com2

learn.g2.com2

linkedin.com2

mangoapps.com2

oak.com2

softwareadvice.com2

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Google Workspace came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/general/company-intranet-software2

learn.g2.com/best-employee-intranet-software2

oak.com/blog/best-small-business-intranet-software-in-20262

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-intranet-software-for-small-businesses2

blog.shrub.com/some-good-reasons-to-avoid-adobe-cc1

46745145.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/46745145/MAPS_MTD/REPORT/GEN/Global%20Mobile1

acuityscheduling.com/compare/acuity-vs-calendly1

acuityscheduling.com/enterprise1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Workspace

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

Google Workspace with Meet 1Microsoft Teams / Google Workspace (Native Tools) 1

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