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Workvivo

115Judge labels
7First choices
23Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Internal communications for mid-market buyers
Rank 6 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 28 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In internal communications · 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 Workvivo 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
Internal communications and intranetOnboarding and employee experience6%6 of 807%28accepted challenger
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience2%9 of 970%9under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%36 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workvivo 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 Workvivo across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini11002
Gemini 3.5 Flash10203
Perplexity Sonar02103
Grok 4.1 Fast21306
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01326
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash01304
Kimi K201203
GLM 4.7 FlashX03003
MiniMax M2.512003

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
Direct21 labels4
Paraphrase12 labels2
Comparative39 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labelsNone
Scale-constrained12 labels1
Negative20 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative115 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 9 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.

“The Broadcast Layer (News & Announcements): Workvivo (for social culture) OR Workshop (for email-first teams)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal communications · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Top-Rated Alternatives (4.5+): Workvivo, Simpplr, Staffbase, Blink, Unily, Igloo—praised for mobile, engagement, ease.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal communications · negative prompt · first choice
“recommend platforms like Simpplr, Happeo, MangoApps, or Workvivo as strong fits” MiniMax M2.5 · Internal communications · scale prompt · first choice
“Start with Workvivo or Simpplr for demos—both shine in mid-market B2B case studies.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal communications · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“(Simpplr, Staffbase, Workvivo) have user minimums or $20k+/year price tags — avoid these for small budgets” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal communications · budget prompt · hard negative
“Workvivo can be overwhelming for smaller teams” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal communications · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workvivo, over the 115 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workvivo was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Staffbase84 of 1159Not in the top three
Simpplr72 of 11512Not in the top three
Microsoft SharePoint50 of 1159Not in the top three
LumApps47 of 1150Not in the top three
Unily45 of 1150Not in the top three
MangoApps39 of 1152Not in the top three
Connecteam34 of 1159Not in the top three
Blink30 of 1152Not in the top three
Happeo29 of 1155Not in the top three
Firstup23 of 1150Not 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 Workvivo. 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 101 of the 115 answers that named Workvivo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mangoapps.com69
workvivo.comYour site54
simpplr.com53
staffbase.com37
guideflow.com36
joinblink.com35
oak.com35
learn.g2.com31
agilityportal.io28
lumapps.com28

352 of the 406 domain citations in answers naming Workvivo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workvivo

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workvivo; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workvivo (Zoom) 1Workvivo (by Zoom) 1Zoom’s Workvivo 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 Workvivo'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 Workvivo, 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 workvivo.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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