Every category where a model named Lessie AI 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
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	12%	3 of 77	0%	11	accepted challenger
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	60 of 162	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	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	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2

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 labels4

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels11

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 16 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.

“The best talent intelligence platform for a company with a limited budget is Lessie AI, which is free to start” Llama 4 Maverick · Talent intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“If budget is the primary constraint, Lessie AI offers the lowest barrier to entry among serious platforms.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Talent intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“The best talent intelligence platform for a mid-market B2B company is Lessie AI” Llama 4 Maverick · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · first choice

“Lessie AI is the best overall talent‑intelligence platform right now” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Talent intelligence · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Lessie AI, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lessie AI was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gem21 of 333Compare →

Eightfold AI20 of 330Not in the top three

Pin18 of 336Compare →

Beamery18 of 330Not in the top three

Loxo17 of 333Not in the top three

Metaview17 of 331Not in the top three

hireEZ14 of 330Not in the top three

Wrangle10 of 332Not in the top three

AmazingHiring8 of 330Not in the top three

Phenom8 of 330Not 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 Lessie AI. 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 33 of the 33 answers that named Lessie AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

lessie.aiYour site33

learn.g2.com30

metaview.ai27

pin.com24

g2.com22

wrangle.ai17

skima.ai15

xobin.com13

guideflow.com11

firsthr.app9

168 of the 201 domain citations in answers naming Lessie AI came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

lessie.ai/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms33

learn.g2.com/best-talent-intelligence-software30

metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms27

g2.com/categories/talent-intelligence/small-business19

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms19

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software17

wrangle.ai/blogs/best-talent-intelligence-platforms-202617

skima.ai/blog/industry-trends-and-insights/talent-intelligence-tools15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Lessie AI

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

Lessie 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 Lessie AI'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 Lessie AI, 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 lessie.ai 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.