Every category where a model named AbsenceSoft 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
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	20 of 89	14%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AbsenceSoft yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated AbsenceSoft across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	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

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative11 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labels2

Negative11 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 7 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.

“start with Sparrow or AbsenceSoft” GPT-5.4 mini · Leave · comparative prompt · first choice

“Dedicated leave management systems (e.g., AbsenceSoft, Leapsome, Rippling, Workday HCM, ADP Workforce Now) that offer robust compliance tools” Mistral Small · Leave · negative prompt · alternative

“look into specialized leave management systems (like AbsenceSoft, Cocoon, or Tilt) rather than relying strictly on legacy carrier systems” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · alternative

“Complex US compliance (FMLA/ADA)? You likely need AbsenceSoft, not a generic tool.” Kimi K2 · Leave · comparative 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.

“Users report challenges with HR system integrations... Missing features... steep learning curve” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative

“Verdict: Check Integrations Carefully.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AbsenceSoft, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AbsenceSoft was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workday31 of 4610Not among the top eight

BambooHR30 of 461Not among the top eight

Rippling28 of 461Not among the top eight

Vacation Tracker16 of 466Not among the top eight

UKG Pro16 of 462Not among the top eight

Timetastic13 of 463Not among the top eight

LeaveBoard12 of 462Not among the top eight

Dayforce11 of 463Not among the top eight

Cocoon11 of 460Not among the top eight

SAP SuccessFactors10 of 463Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 AbsenceSoft. 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 37 of the 46 answers that named AbsenceSoft and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

employsome.com24

forbes.com19

peoplemanagingpeople.com19

articsledge.com16

guideflow.com15

leapsome.com15

technologyadvice.com13

actiplans.com12

absencesoft.comYour site11

g2.com11

144 of the 155 domain citations in answers naming AbsenceSoft came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

employsome.com/best/leave-management-software24

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-leave-management-systems19

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-leave-management-software17

articsledge.com/post/leave-management-software16

leapsome.com/blog/absence-management-software15

technologyadvice.com/blog/human-resources/leave-management-tools13

guideflow.com/blog/leave-management-software11

actiplans.com/blog/free-leave-management-software10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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With a new claim: the vendor brief

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for AbsenceSoft by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where AbsenceSoft is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name AbsenceSoft, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

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

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