Every category where a model named Lightcast 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
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	21 of 77	10%	10	accepted challenger
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	26 of 87	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Lightcast 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 Lightcast across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“strongest overall market-intelligence option, but it is often more than a mid-market team needs” Perplexity Sonar · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · alternative

“Local labor market insights | Lightcast” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce planning · 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.

“Mid-market teams usually don't need deep labor-market economics (Lightcast)” Kimi K2 · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Lightcast, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lightcast was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Eightfold AI23 of 2811Not among the top eight

Beamery21 of 280Not among the top eight

SeekOut19 of 282Not among the top eight

Gloat16 of 280Not among the top eight

Gem12 of 284Not among the top eight

hireEZ12 of 283Not among the top eight

Findem12 of 280Not among the top eight

LinkedIn Talent Insights12 of 280Not among the top eight

Phenom12 of 280Not among the top eight

Metaview10 of 281Not 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 Lightcast. 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 27 of the 28 answers that named Lightcast and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

metaview.ai19

pin.com19

guideflow.com18

learn.g2.com18

gitnux.org16

jobspipe.dev16

noon.ai13

g2.com11

hrtechsaas.com11

gartner.com10

151 of the 151 domain citations in answers naming Lightcast came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms19

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms17

gitnux.org/best/talent-intelligence-software16

jobspipe.dev/talent-intelligence-platforms16

guideflow.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software15

learn.g2.com/best-talent-intelligence-software15

noon.ai/blog/articles/145-talent-intelligence-platforms13

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-software11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Lightcast

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

Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) 1

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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.

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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 Lightcast'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 Lightcast, 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 Lightcast by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Lightcast 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 Lightcast, 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 lightcast.io 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.