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SimpleVMS

48Judge labels
31First choices
1Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
35% in Contingent workforce man for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 97 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
6 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 22 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of SimpleVMS →
By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
In contingent workforce man · 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 SimpleVMS 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
Contingent workforce managementWorkforce planning and analytics35%1 of 970%22endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SimpleVMS 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 SimpleVMS 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 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash11002
Perplexity Sonar10102
Grok 4.1 Fast20002
Mistral Small20002
DeepSeek V4 Flash20002
Llama 4 Maverick10102
Qwen 3.7 Flash20002
Kimi K211103
GLM 4.7 FlashX11002
MiniMax M2.520002

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 labels14
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained19 labels16
Scale-constrained2 labels1
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 31 of the 31 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 vendor management system for contingent workers for a mid-market B2B company is SimpleVMS, Worksuite, Conexis VMS, Gatekeeper, or Procurify.” Llama 4 Maverick · Contingent workforce man · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd start with SimpleVMS or VectorVMS as they specifically address contingent workforce management without enterprise pricing” MiniMax M2.5 · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · first choice
“This is arguably the single best choice if your budget is essentially $0 and you work with staffing agencies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · first choice
“SimpleVMS stands out as the best vendor management system (VMS) for contingent workers on a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contingent workforce man · 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 SimpleVMS, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SimpleVMS was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP Fieldglass40 of 483Not among the top eight
Beeline35 of 481Not among the top eight
Magnit16 of 480Not among the top eight
Workday VNDLY15 of 480Not among the top eight
SimplifyVMS7 of 481Not 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 SimpleVMS. 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 44 of the 48 answers that named SimpleVMS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hrtechsaas.com39
talentdesk.io28
zapro.ai25
aihratlas.com20
conexisvmssoftware.com19
connecteam.com19
worldmetrics.org18
g2.com17
learn.g2.com16
rippling.com16

217 of the 217 domain citations in answers naming SimpleVMS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow SimpleVMS

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.

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

  • where SimpleVMS 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 SimpleVMS, 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 simplevms.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.

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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where SimpleVMS 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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AI models recommend SimpleVMS first in Contingent workforce management 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.

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AI models' first choice in Contingent workforce management, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/contingent-workforce-management/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-09/simplevms--contingent-workforce-management-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Contingent workforce management, 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 Contingent workforce management standing, where the claim can be checked.

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AI models' first choice in Contingent workforce management, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/contingent-workforce-management/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-09/simplevms--contingent-workforce-management-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Contingent workforce management, 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 Contingent workforce management standing, where the claim can be checked.

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AI models' first choice in Contingent workforce management, September 2026 Edition, HR AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/contingent-workforce-management/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-09/simplevms--contingent-workforce-management-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Contingent workforce management, 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 Contingent workforce management 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.