Every category where a model named Verified First 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
Background screening	Talent acquisition	7%	5 of 59	0%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Verified First 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 Verified First 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	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	1	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	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	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	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

Direct11 labels2

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“*Verified First* is widely regarded for its exceptional integration (often via a browser extension) and live, US-based customer support.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · scale prompt · first choice

“Verified First — best all-around mid-market fit” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Background screening · direct prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for Mid-Market B2B Companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Background screening · direct prompt · first choice

“called the top choice for mid-market and enterprise teams prioritizing integrated efficiency, support, and partnership” Perplexity Sonar · Background screening · direct 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 Verified First, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Verified First was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Checkr25 of 2513Not in the top three

HireRight20 of 252Not in the top three

First Advantage18 of 253Not in the top three

GoodHire18 of 253Not in the top three

Accurate Background16 of 251Not in the top three

Sterling14 of 250Not in the top three

Certn13 of 250Not in the top three

Bchex8 of 250Not in the top three

TruthFinder5 of 250Not in the top three

Mitratech AssureHire3 of 251Not 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 Verified First. 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 20 of the 25 answers that named Verified First and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bib.com20

vetty.co17

checkr.com15

fadv.com15

pin.com10

checkrreviews.com9

mitratech.com9

expertinsights.com8

gartner.com8

disa.com7

118 of the 118 domain citations in answers naming Verified First came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bib.com/blog/best-background-screening-companies-comparison19

vetty.co/blog/best-background-check-companies-for-employers-in-2026-complete-comparison-gu16

fadv.com/article/background-check-providers15

checkr.com/resources/articles/best-background-checks13

pin.com/blog/background-check-tools-recruiters10

checkrreviews.com/best-background-check-services9

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-background-check-solutions8

gartner.com/reviews/market/background-check-software8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Verified First

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

Verify First 2Verifirst 1

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

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