Every category where a model named SuccessionNow 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
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	4%	5 of 99	0%	16	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	2	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct11 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative16 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels3

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 13 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 <50 employees, try SuccessionNow or templates first—it's the sweet spot for dedicated features without per-user pain.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Succession planning · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want a standalone succession tool with a flat price, go with SuccessionNow.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Succession planning · budget prompt · first choice

“It is the only dedicated succession planning software with published, flat-rate pricing that small businesses can afford.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Succession planning · budget prompt · alternative

“small and mid-size orgs wanting guided succession workflows (~$2,995/year, one of the few with published pricing)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Succession planning · comparative 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 SuccessionNow, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SuccessionNow was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Lattice32 of 485Not in the top three

Paycor27 of 486Not in the top three

Teamflect23 of 484Not in the top three

PerformYard18 of 481Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors16 of 482Not in the top three

Leapsome15 of 480Not in the top three

SuccessionStack14 of 481Not in the top three

BambooHR13 of 481Not in the top three

Empxtrack12 of 484Not in the top three

Workday12 of 480Not 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 SuccessionNow. 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 41 of the 48 answers that named SuccessionNow and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app39

successionstack.com37

talentguard.com35

monday.com23

gartner.com19

softwareadvice.com19

g2.com17

peoplemanagingpeople.com17

guideflow.com14

skillpanel.com14

234 of the 234 domain citations in answers naming SuccessionNow came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/performance/succession-planning-software39

successionstack.com/best-succession-planning-software36

talentguard.com/blog/10-best-role-readiness-planning-software-for-202535

monday.com/blog/project-management/succession-planning-software23

gartner.com/reviews/market/succession-planning-technology19

softwareadvice.com/hr/succession-planning-comparison19

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-succession-planning-software17

engagedly.com/blog/best-succession-planning-softwares13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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