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Oak Engage

22Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
11 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
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Oak Engage was named 8 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.
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 Oak Engage 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%22 of 800%7under 10 labels · led by Happeo at 16%
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience0%42 of 970%1under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Oak Engage 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 Oak Engage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative5 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative7 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 3 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.

“Oak Engage is the best overall choice for organizations that need one intranet platform for frontline, desk-based and remote employees.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal communications · comparative prompt · first choice
“Enterprise-leaning mixed desk + frontline | Staffbase / Oak Engage” Perplexity Sonar · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · alternative
“look for "intranet-on-top" software (like Omnia, Oak Engage, or hubley)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal communications · negative prompt · alternative
“4. Oak Engage (Best for Frontline Communication)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Internal communications · budget 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 Oak Engage, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Oak Engage was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft SharePoint18 of 223Not in the top three
Simpplr16 of 223Not in the top three
Staffbase13 of 221Not in the top three
Workvivo13 of 220Not in the top three
Happeo11 of 224Not in the top three
LumApps10 of 220Not in the top three
Interact9 of 220Not in the top three
Unily8 of 220Not in the top three
Jostle7 of 221Not in the top three
Connecteam7 of 220Not 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 Oak Engage. 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 21 of the 22 answers that named Oak Engage and are not a share of its labels.

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