Every category where a model named Small Improvements 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
Performance management	Performance and talent management	7%	6 of 60	9%	11	accepted challenger
360 feedback	Performance and talent management	5%	5 of 77	0%	15	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Small Improvements 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 Small Improvements 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	2	1	0	3
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	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	1	0	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	2	0	4

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

Direct14 labels1

Paraphrase14 labels3

Comparative24 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels8

Scale-constrained7 labels1

Negative7 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative99 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 21 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.

“The best performance management software for a company with a limited budget is Small Improvements, which is the cheapest credible performance appraisal software” Llama 4 Maverick · Performance management · budget prompt · first choice

“The best 360-degree feedback tool for a company with a limited budget is ThriveSparrow, Small Improvements, or Primalogik.” Llama 4 Maverick · 360 feedback · budget prompt · first choice

“Often cited as the best value for money, Small Improvements strikes a balance between robust features and affordability.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Performance management · budget prompt · first choice

“Often cited as the cheapest credible option at $3/user/month, making it ideal for small businesses” Mistral Small · Performance management · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“Cheapest credible option (but has seat minimums)” Kimi K2 · Performance management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Small Improvements, over the 99 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Small Improvements was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Lattice47 of 995Not in the top three

Effy AI45 of 9914Not in the top three

15Five42 of 993Not in the top three

PerformYard40 of 993Not in the top three

Primalogik35 of 9910Not in the top three

Teamflect27 of 990Not in the top three

BambooHR26 of 995Not in the top three

Spidergap26 of 995Not in the top three

FeedbackPulse25 of 995Not in the top three

ThriveSparrow25 of 995Not 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 Small Improvements. 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 91 of the 99 answers that named Small Improvements and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

workhuman.com63

betterworks.com56

peoplemanagingpeople.com51

effy.ai42

feedbackpulse.com42

nanoglobals.com36

forbes.com35

small-improvements.comYour site29

capterra.com28

teamflect.com27

380 of the 409 domain citations in answers naming Small Improvements came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

betterworks.com/magazine/best-360-degree-feedback-tools47

workhuman.com/blog/best-360-degree-feedback-software-tools41

nanoglobals.com/recommended/360-degree-feedback-tools36

effy.ai/blog/performance-management-software-for-small-business33

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-360-degree-feedback-software32

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-performance-management-software29

feedbackpulse.com/resources/360-feedback-tools27

business.com/articles/360-feedback-tools24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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