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Index › Vendors › Workday Assistant · September 2026 Edition

Workday · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Workday Assistant

7Judge labels

1First choices

4Negative labels

6 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. Workday Assistant 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 business101 of 105

under the label threshold

Mid-market114 of 119

under the label threshold

Enterprise11 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 Workday Assistant 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%	114 of 119	67%	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 Workday Assistant 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 Workday Assistant across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“It shouldn't require a massive enterprise IT department to deploy (like ServiceNow or Workday Assistant)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR AI assistants · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“cost-effective compared to enterprise solutions like Moveworks or Workday Assistant” Mistral Small · HR AI assistants · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday Assistant, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Assistant was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Moveworks6 of 71Not in the top three

Leena AI4 of 73Not in the top three

HelpJet3 of 71Not in the top three

HiBob3 of 71Not in the top three

Lattice3 of 71Not in the top three

Workativ Assistant3 of 71Not in the top three

BambooHR2 of 70Not in the top three

ChatGPT2 of 70Not in the top three

Gusto2 of 70Not in the top three

Paycor2 of 70Not 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 Workday Assistant. 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 6 of the 7 answers that named Workday Assistant and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sanalabs.com5

herothemes.com4

simular.ai3

workativ.com3

kvistly.com2

larksuite.com2

moveworks.com2

peoplemanagingpeople.com2

resources.rework.com2

wisq.com2

Twenty-seven of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Workday Assistant came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sanalabs.com/agents-blog/hr-ai-agents-work-assistants5

herothemes.com/blog/hr-chatbots4

simular.ai/alternatives/top-9-best-hr-chatbots-for-teams-tested-reviewed3

kvistly.com/blog/best-ai-tools-for-hr2

larksuite.com/en_us/blog/ai-tools-for-hr2

moveworks.com/us/en/resources/blog/best-ai-assistants-for-hr-efficiency2

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-ai-hr-software2

resources.rework.com/tools/ai-tools/best-ai-tools-for-hr-20262

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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