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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Shifton

13Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

3Categories

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

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Shifton was named 4 times in Frontline employee apps and 2 other categories, 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 business16 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprise61 of 101

under the label threshold

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 Shifton 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%	30 of 97	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	51 of 89	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	0%	51 of 94	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Shifton 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 Shifton 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	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 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.

“For shift‑based operations, Shifton or Homebase provide excellent free options focused on scheduling.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · alternative

“Offers a free plan for up to 10 users and low-cost modules starting at $0.50/user/month” Mistral Small · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · alternative

“5. Shifton - Free forever: Up to 10 people” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce planning · 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 Shifton, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Shifton was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Connecteam11 of 135Not in the top three

Homebase10 of 135Not in the top three

Sling7 of 132Not in the top three

When I Work4 of 131Not in the top three

Deputy4 of 130Not in the top three

Pumble3 of 130Not in the top three

7shifts2 of 130Not in the top three

Blink2 of 130Not in the top three

RedeApp2 of 130Not in the top three

Rock2 of 130Not 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 Shifton. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Shifton and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

shifton.comYour site13

joinhomebase.com8

connecteam.com7

peoplemanagingpeople.com6

rock.so5

zapier.com5

firsthr.app4

fitsmallbusiness.com4

forbes.com4

joinblink.com4

Forty-seven of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Shifton came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

shifton.com/blog/best-employee-scheduling-software-small-business7

rock.so/blog/employee-communication-apps5

shifton.com/blog/best-employee-communication-apps5

zapier.com/blog/best-employee-scheduling-software5

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-scheduling-software4

joinblink.com/intelligence/best-employee-communication-apps4

capterra.com/resources/best-employee-scheduling-software-for-small-business3

connecteam.com/scheduling-software-small-business3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 shifton.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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