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1 category · Named, not ranked

Pumble

10Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pumble was named 5 times in Frontline employee apps, where Connecteam led with 56%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business15 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market18 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In frontline employee apps · 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 Pumble 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
Frontline employee apps	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	18 of 97	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pumble 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 Pumble 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	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.

“If you only need simple messaging, Pumble offers a generous free plan with no seat cap.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · alternative

“If purely unlimited free chat suffices (no ops), go RedeApp or Pumble.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · alternative

“Best free chat-only option: Pumble” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · alternative

“### Alternative 1: Pumble” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Frontline employee apps · 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 Pumble, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pumble was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Connecteam9 of 108Not in the top three

Slack5 of 101Not in the top three

Homebase5 of 100Not in the top three

Sling4 of 100Not in the top three

RedeApp3 of 102Not in the top three

Blink3 of 100Not in the top three

Google Chat3 of 100Not in the top three

Microsoft Teams3 of 100Not in the top three

Shifton3 of 100Not in the top three

Zelos2 of 100Not 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 Pumble. 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 10 answers that named Pumble and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

joinblink.com6

rock.so6

shifton.com6

firsthr.app5

getzelos.com5

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

connecteam.com4

changeengine.com3

joinhomebase.com3

reddit.com3

Forty-six of the forty-six domain citations in answers naming Pumble came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

joinblink.com/intelligence/best-employee-communication-apps6

rock.so/blog/employee-communication-apps6

shifton.com/blog/best-employee-communication-apps6

firsthr.app/compare/performance/employee-communication-app5

getzelos.com/best-frontline-employee-apps5

connecteam.com/pricing4

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-communication-apps4

changeengine.com/articles/frontline-communication-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Pumble'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 Pumble, 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 pumble.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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