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Index › Vendors › Tilt · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Tilt

10Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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. Tilt was named 4 times in Leave and 1 other category, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business58 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market35 of 89

under the label threshold

Enterprise24 of 94

under the label threshold

In leave · 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 Tilt 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
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	35 of 89	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%
Earned wage access	Compensation and total rewards	0%	55 of 61	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Tapcheck at 29%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.

“Best "Leave Experience" Platform ... Tilt automates the complex federal and state compliance rules” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · direct prompt · alternative

“look into specialized leave management systems (like AbsenceSoft, Cocoon, or Tilt)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · negative 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.

“Courts in multiple states have ruled against several payday loan apps including ... Tilt (fka Empower)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tilt, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tilt was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cocoon8 of 101Not in the top three

AbsenceSoft6 of 102Not in the top three

Workday5 of 100Not in the top three

Rippling4 of 102Not in the top three

BambooHR3 of 100Not in the top three

HiBob3 of 100Not in the top three

Vacation Tracker3 of 100Not in the top three

Brigit2 of 100Not in the top three

Cleo2 of 100Not in the top three

Dave2 of 100Not 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 Tilt. 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 2 of the 10 answers that named Tilt and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bamboohr.com1

bsh-technologies.com1

coag.gov1

congress.gov1

consumerfinanceinsights.com1

consumerfinancemonitor.com1

consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com1

dailypay.com1

en.wikipedia.org1

federalregister.gov1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Tilt came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bamboohr.com/blog/earned-wage-access1

bsh-technologies.com/products/hrms1

coag.gov/press-releases/weiser-sues-earnin-for-illegal-high-cost-lending-violating-state-p1

congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7428/text1

congress.gov/crs-product/IF127271

consumerfinanceinsights.com/2026/01/15/cfpb-says-some-earned-wage-access-products-not-cons1

consumerfinancemonitor.com/2026/09/08/colorado-sues-earnin-alleging-its-earned-wage-access1

consumerfinancemonitor.com/earned-wage-access1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Tilt

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Tilt; a claim can dispute any of them.

Tilt (fka Empower) 1

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Tilt'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 Tilt, 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 tilt.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.