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1 category · Named, not ranked

Windmill

10Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Windmill was named 3 times in HR AI assistants, where Workativ Assistant led with 12%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business6 of 105

under the label threshold

Mid-market33 of 119

under the label threshold

Enterprise66 of 108

under the label threshold

In hr ai assistants · 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 Windmill 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
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	33 of 119	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%

Movement

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

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

Direct5 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Stands out as a single assistant covering the performance lifecycle.” Perplexity Sonar · HR AI assistants · comparative prompt · alternative

“Windmill - Best for full-lifecycle coverage in a single assistant” Llama 4 Maverick · HR AI assistants · 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 Windmill, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Windmill was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Leena AI8 of 102Not in the top three

Gusto4 of 102Not in the top three

Paradox4 of 100Not in the top three

Moveworks3 of 102Not in the top three

Lattice3 of 101Not in the top three

HiBob2 of 100Not in the top three

Leapsome2 of 100Not in the top three

ServiceNow1 of 101Not in the top three

Velocity Global1 of 101Not in the top three

ADP1 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 Windmill. 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 8 of the 10 answers that named Windmill and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gowindmill.com8

sanalabs.com8

herothemes.com5

humand.co5

peoplebox.ai4

gusto.com3

hrtechsaas.com3

moveworks.com3

resources.rework.com3

simular.ai3

Forty-five of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming Windmill came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gowindmill.com/resources/lists/best-ai-agents-for-hr-teams8

sanalabs.com/agents-blog/hr-ai-agents-work-assistants8

herothemes.com/blog/hr-chatbots5

humand.co/en/compare/best-ai-powered-hr-software-tools5

peoplebox.ai/blog/ai-tools-hr-teams4

gusto.com/resources/guides/best-ai-hr-tools3

hrtechsaas.com/blog/best-ai-hr-chatbot3

moveworks.com/us/en/resources/blog/best-ai-assistants-for-hr-efficiency3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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