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Index Vendors › Jostle · September 2026 Edition
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Jostle

42Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Internal communications for small business buyers
Rank 20 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 11 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Jostle 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
Internal communications and intranetOnboarding and employee experience0%20 of 800%11accepted challenger
Org charts and org designWorkforce planning and analytics0%23 of 810%2under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 27%
Workforce schedulingCore HR and payroll0%65 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Jostle 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 Jostle 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 mini03003
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast02002
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct8 labels1
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative15 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative7 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 6 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.

“High adoption, people-directory focus, easy for mid-sized B2B without IT overhead.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal communications · direct prompt · alternative
“Modern intranets (like Jostle, MangoApps, or Workvivo) typically go live in weeks.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Internal communications · negative prompt · alternative
“Jostle — Best for org chart visibility inside an employee hub already used daily.” Llama 4 Maverick · Org charts · negative prompt · alternative
“Choose Jostle if you want something simpler and easier to roll out.” GPT-5.4 mini · Internal communications · comparative 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 Jostle, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Jostle was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft SharePoint33 of 427Not in the top three
Connecteam20 of 424Not in the top three
Happeo19 of 422Not in the top three
Simpplr18 of 424Not in the top three
Workvivo17 of 422Not in the top three
Staffbase12 of 421Not in the top three
Unily12 of 421Not in the top three
Google Sites11 of 424Not in the top three
Notion10 of 421Not in the top three
LumApps8 of 421Not 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 Jostle. 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 36 of the 42 answers that named Jostle and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

workvivo.com22
learn.g2.com20
oak.com20
simpplr.com19
firsthr.app18
blog.jostle.meYour site17
happeo.com17
mangoapps.com14
peoplemanagingpeople.com14
guideflow.com12

156 of the 173 domain citations in answers naming Jostle came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 jostle.me is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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