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Workday Illuminate

25Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
11 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.
Best standing
0% in HR AI assistants for enterprise buyers
Rank 70 of 119 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 2 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Illuminate 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
HR AI assistantsOnboarding and employee experience0%70 of 1190%2under 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 Illuminate 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 Illuminate across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative13 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday Illuminate, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Illuminate was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Moveworks20 of 256Not in the top three
Leena AI19 of 2510Not in the top three
Paradox11 of 251Not in the top three
Rippling9 of 250Not in the top three
Eightfold AI6 of 250Not in the top three
Workativ Assistant5 of 251Not in the top three
Humand4 of 250Not in the top three
IBM watsonx Orchestrate4 of 250Not in the top three
Phenom4 of 250Not in the top three
HireVue3 of 250Not 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 Illuminate. 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 22 of the 25 answers that named Workday Illuminate and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

moveworks.com18
humand.co14
resources.rework.com12
wonderchat.io10
workativ.com10
gowindmill.com9
coworker.ai7
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com6
guideflow.com6
hrtechsaas.com6

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Workday Illuminate came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workday Illuminate

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Illuminate; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday's integrated agents 1
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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 Workday Illuminate'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 Workday Illuminate, 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 workday.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.

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