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Risely

60Judge labels
16First choices
4Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
17% in Coaching platforms for small business buyers
Rank 6 of 116 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In coaching platforms · 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 Risely 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
Coaching platformsLearning and development4%6 of 11611%18accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Risely 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 Risely across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash10001
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01124
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K210304
GLM 4.7 FlashX02103
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
Direct10 labels4
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative16 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labels10
Scale-constrained5 labels2
Negative3 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative60 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 19 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.

“Choose Rocky.ai or Risely if you want to provide on-demand, automated individual coaching to employees at the lowest possible monthly rate.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · first choice
“For the tightest budgets: Start with Risely's free trial or Boon's usage-based model” Kimi K2 · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · first choice
“Offers public, tiered pricing ($59/user/month for individual...) It provides AI-augmented coaching at an accessible price point” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · alternative
“noteworthy for having transparent, published pricing rather than custom quotes, making it easier to budget” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Coaching platforms · 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.

“Under ~50 employees: Boon, Risely (lightweight, AI)... one built for startups may not scale to your needs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Coaching platforms · scale prompt · soft negative
“Valence/Risely are AI-only, which may be limiting” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Coaching platforms · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Risely, over the 60 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Risely was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Boon Health49 of 6014Not in the top three
BetterUp43 of 608Not in the top three
CoachHub43 of 606Not in the top three
Exec34 of 603Not in the top three
Growthspace27 of 602Not in the top three
Valence24 of 600Not in the top three
Torch22 of 601Not in the top three
EZRA20 of 600Not in the top three
Coachello18 of 601Not in the top three
Bravely13 of 602Not 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 Risely. 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 57 of the 60 answers that named Risely and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

boon-health.com54
coachstackhub.ai37
exec.com24
360learning.com23
coachello.ai22
torch.io21
togetherplatform.com20
easygenerator.com19
risely.meYour site18
coachilly.com17

237 of the 255 domain citations in answers naming Risely came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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 Risely'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 Risely, 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 risely.me is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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