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Cocoon

14Judge labels
1First choices
2Negative labels
5 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cocoon was named 4 times in Leave, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In leave · 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 Cocoon 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
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll0%32 of 890%4under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cocoon 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 Cocoon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02103
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained6 labels1
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 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.

“utilizing specialized, modern software (like Cocoon, Tilt, or AbsenceSoft) to manage the actual employee experience” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · alternative
“remains a market-leading software platform” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · 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 Cocoon, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cocoon was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
AbsenceSoft11 of 142Not among the top eight
Rippling9 of 142Not among the top eight
Vacation Tracker8 of 142Not among the top eight
Tilt8 of 140Not among the top eight
Workday7 of 141Not among the top eight
BambooHR7 of 140Not among the top eight
LeaveBoard4 of 142Not among the top eight
Timetastic4 of 141Not among the top eight
Calamari4 of 140Not among the top eight
Gusto4 of 140Not 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 Cocoon. 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 7 of the 14 answers that named Cocoon and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

employsome.com6
forbes.com5
peoplemanagingpeople.com5
connecteam.com3
firsthr.app3
guideflow.com3
actiplans.com2
articsledge.com2
leapsome.com2
teambridge.com2

Thirty-three of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Cocoon came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow Cocoon

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Cocoon'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 Cocoon, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

With a new claim: the vendor brief

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

  • where Cocoon 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 Cocoon, 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 cocoon.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.