Every category where a model named Shiftboard 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
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	4%	8 of 94	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	0	1

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

Direct5 labels1

Paraphrase11 labels4

Comparative6 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 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.

“I'd recommend considering Shiftboard or When I Work as top options for a mid-sized B2B company” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the best shift scheduling tool for a mid-sized B2B company would be Shiftboard or Float” Llama 4 Maverick · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Shiftboard if your scheduling is complex, multi-site, and rule-heavy” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase 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.

“Shiftboard \u2014 overkill for mid-sized; it's enterprise-focused” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Shiftboard, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Shiftboard was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deputy12 of 313Not in the top three

UKG Pro8 of 314Not in the top three

Workday6 of 311Not in the top three

Workday Workforce Management6 of 311Not in the top three

Acuity Scheduling6 of 310Not in the top three

When I Work6 of 310Not in the top three

Calendly5 of 310Not in the top three

Dayforce5 of 310Not in the top three

Rippling5 of 310Not in the top three

UKG Pro Workforce Management4 of 314Not 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 Shiftboard. 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 30 of the 31 answers that named Shiftboard and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com22

zapier.com18

guideflow.com17

worldmetrics.org14

learn.g2.com12

pcmag.com10

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com9

timetrex.com9

cal.com8

forbes.com8

127 of the 127 domain citations in answers naming Shiftboard came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

zapier.com/blog/best-employee-scheduling-software16

learn.g2.com/employee-scheduling-tools12

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-shift-scheduling-software11

guideflow.com/blog/shift-management-software10

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/tools/10-best-workforce-management-software-for-enter9

timetrex.com/resources/best-online-employee-scheduling-software9

cal.com/blog/enterprise-scheduling-software8

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-scheduling-software8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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