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3 categories · Ranked Claimed

FeedbackPulse

86Judge labels

28First choices

1Negative labels

11 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

33% in Employee engagement surv for small business buyers

Rank 3 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 14 labels there were negative.

What the models named instead of FeedbackPulse →

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business2 of 124

No model named it for this buyer.

In employee engagement surv · 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 FeedbackPulse 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
Employee engagement surveys	Onboarding and employee experience	12%	3 of 76	0%	14	accepted challenger
360 feedback	Performance and talent management	2%	10 of 77	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40%
Coaching platforms	Learning and development	0%	47 of 116	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for FeedbackPulse 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 FeedbackPulse 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	2	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	0	4
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	1	3

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

Direct12 labels3

Paraphrase18 labels6

Comparative15 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels18

Scale-constrained5 labels1

Negative3 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative86 labels in all, every segment counted; 28 of the 33 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 best overall pick in the results is FeedbackPulse if you want the strongest balance of affordability and useful engagement features” Perplexity Sonar · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · first choice

“The best employee engagement survey platform for a company with a limited budget is FeedbackPulse or Workleap for teams under 50 employees” Llama 4 Maverick · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · first choice

“Best For: Best overall - full platform where 360 reviews sit alongside engagement surveys, eNPS, and performance reviews” MiniMax M2.5 · 360 feedback · comparative prompt · first choice

“Workleap (Officevibe) or FeedbackPulse are generally recommended over enterprise giants like Qualtrics” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee engagement surv · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as FeedbackPulse, over the 86 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and FeedbackPulse was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

15Five45 of 863Compare →

Workleap Officevibe39 of 8610Compare →

Lattice34 of 861Compare →

SurveyMonkey31 of 860Not among the top eight

Culture Amp29 of 862Compare →

ThriveSparrow25 of 866Not among the top eight

Small Improvements25 of 865Not among the top eight

Spidergap25 of 865Not among the top eight

Google Forms23 of 860Not among the top eight

Primalogik18 of 864Not 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 FeedbackPulse. 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 81 of the 86 answers that named FeedbackPulse and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

feedbackpulse.comYour site81

peoplemanagingpeople.com47

thrivesparrow.com36

engagedly.com35

betterworks.com32

workhuman.com30

selectsoftwarereviews.com29

nanoglobals.com26

qualaroo.com24

culturemonkey.io21

280 of the 361 domain citations in answers naming FeedbackPulse came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

feedbackpulse.com/resources/best-employee-survey-software32

feedbackpulse.com/resources/360-feedback-tools30

feedbackpulse.com/resources/affordable-employee-surveys-tools30

betterworks.com/magazine/best-360-degree-feedback-tools29

workhuman.com/blog/best-360-degree-feedback-software-tools29

nanoglobals.com/recommended/360-degree-feedback-tools26

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-360-degree-feedback-software25

engagedly.com/blog/best-employee-engagement-survey-softwares22

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as FeedbackPulse

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as FeedbackPulse; a claim can dispute any of them.

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Claimed

Claimed by FeedbackPulse / Hindcast LLC

Verified contact: Naz Avo, Founder, FeedbackPulse / Hindcast LLC, since September 26, 2026. Claiming changes nothing in the data: the labels, shares and verdicts on this page are the models' and the judge's alone. The edition's vendor brief for FeedbackPulse goes to the verified contact by email.

FeedbackPulse is an employee engagement platform for growing teams of 10 to 200. It runs engagement and pulse surveys, eNPS, and anonymous feedback in one light Description supplied by FeedbackPulse / Hindcast LLC.

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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where FeedbackPulse is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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FeedbackPulse is among the products AI models recommend first in Employee engagement surveys this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of September 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-09/feedbackpulse--employee-engagement-surveys-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Employee engagement surveys, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Employee engagement surveys standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-09/feedbackpulse--employee-engagement-surveys-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Employee engagement surveys, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Employee engagement surveys standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-09/feedbackpulse--employee-engagement-surveys-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Employee engagement surveys, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Employee engagement surveys standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.