Every category where a model named Valence 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
Coaching platforms	Learning and development	0%	23 of 116	10%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Valence 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 Valence 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	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative19 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative34 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Valence's advantage is economics and reach... though it lacks a human coach network” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Coaching platforms · comparative prompt · alternative

“explore AI-only platforms like Valence” MiniMax M2.5 · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · alternative

“Valence (Best for Team Dynamics)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Coaching platforms · 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.

“Valence/Risely are AI-only, which may be limiting” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Coaching platforms · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Valence, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Valence was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BetterUp28 of 3412Not in the top three

CoachHub27 of 347Not in the top three

Boon Health25 of 345Not in the top three

Risely24 of 344Not in the top three

Exec22 of 343Not in the top three

Growthspace22 of 341Not in the top three

Torch19 of 341Not in the top three

Coachello18 of 342Not in the top three

EZRA15 of 341Not in the top three

Bravely12 of 340Not 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 Valence. 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 31 of the 34 answers that named Valence and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

boon-health.com28

torch.io17

coachello.ai15

coachstackhub.ai14

easygenerator.com14

coachilly.com12

exec.com10

thinkific.com9

360learning.com8

g2.com8

135 of the 135 domain citations in answers naming Valence came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

boon-health.com/learn/resources/best-enterprise-coaching-platforms28

torch.io/compare15

coachstackhub.ai/compare/business-coaching-platforms14

easygenerator.com/en/blog/e-learning/best-enterprise-coaching-platforms14

coachello.ai/blog/online-coaching-platform13

coachilly.com/coaching-software-review-202611

exec.com/learn/best-leadership-coaching-platforms10

360learning.com/blog/online-coaching-platforms8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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