Every category where a model named ActivTrak 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	Since September 2026
Employee monitoring	Workforce planning and analytics	33%	1 of 75	6%	51	endorsed leader
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	103 of 114	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Performance management	Performance and talent management	0%	61 of 85	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43%

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	5	0	0	6
Mistral Small	1	0	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	1	2	7
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	2	0	3
Kimi K2	2	1	0	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	2	2	0	1	5
Muse Glimmer 30B	4	1	0	0	5

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

Direct37 labels17

Paraphrase28 labels9

Comparative35 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained25 labels7

Scale-constrained10 labels1

Negative16 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative151 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 45 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.

“A commonly mentioned less intrusive alternative is ActivTrak, described as offering "real-time activity monitoring without keystroke logging..."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee monitoring · negative prompt · first choice

“Start with ActivTrak for the overall organization if you need to understand productivity trends, but avoid it for sales teams.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee monitoring · direct prompt · first choice

“ActivTrak is the top recommendation due to its robust analytics, ease of use, and focus on actionable insights” Mistral Small · Employee monitoring · direct prompt · first choice

“If you need truly zero cost to start, ActivTrak or Jibble free tiers are the most commonly recommended.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee monitoring · 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.

“Tools to be cautious about: ActivTrak, Teramind, Time Doctor, and similar "productivity tracking" platforms.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative

“Screen monitoring, "bossware" classification in research” Kimi K2 · Employee monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“Some expensive tools (like ActivTrak) require a minimum purchase of 5 licenses (billed annually) even for the lowest tier.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · soft negative

“Treat its activity data as limited context—not a stand-alone measure of an employee's value.” GPT-6 Luna · Performance management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ActivTrak, over the 151 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ActivTrak was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Teramind109 of 15123Compare →

Hubstaff105 of 15117Compare →

Insightful86 of 1519Compare →

Time Doctor63 of 1513Compare →

Veriato30 of 1515Not among the top eight

DeskTime29 of 1511Compare →

CurrentWare21 of 1512Not among the top eight

Apploye16 of 1513Compare →

Controlio16 of 1511Not among the top eight

WorkTime15 of 1513Not 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 ActivTrak. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 146 of the 151 answers that named ActivTrak and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

currentware.com82

insightful.io78

forbes.com64

peoplemanagingpeople.com63

teramind.co55

hubstaff.com54

activtrak.comYour site48

employee-monitoring.net47

learn.g2.com47

worktime.com39

529 of the 577 domain citations in answers naming ActivTrak came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-monitoring-software62

currentware.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software52

learn.g2.com/best-employee-monitoring-software38

traqq.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software35

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-monitoring-software34

business.com/categories/employee-monitoring-software33

zdnet.com/article/best-employee-monitoring-software32

fitsmallbusiness.com/employee-monitoring-software31

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where ActivTrak stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “employee monitoring tool”

Position for “employee monitoring tools”

Searches for its name, Google: 8,100 a month (“activtrak”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 156 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 18,356 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 6,121 · 298 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,190
Paid Google search: 7 searches its ads show for, about 616 clicks and $11,550 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

113 ads · 103 text, 10 video · 47 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as Birch Grove Software, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 44 in the year, 69 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

33%

rank 1 of 75 in employee monitoring

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 151 answers
Its own site cited: in 146 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on activtrak.com

1,003

subdomains included

Content

842

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

87 · 4

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	693	22	2026-09-15
News or press	88	4	2026-09-10
Case study	21	1	2026-07-31
Glossary or explainer	15	1	2026-08-31
Comparison	14	1	2026-09-12
Podcast or video	4	0	2026-05-11
Webinar or virtual event	2	0	2026-06-03
Conference or event	2	0	2022-10-26
Template or tool	2	0	2019-05-02
Report or ebook	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-15451 report q326 blog
2026-09-14Build work intelligence program blog
2026-09-13Ai adoption benchmarks by stage of growth blog
2026-09-12Scaling ai across the organization blog
2026-09-12Ai enablement vs ai expansion comparison
2026-09-10Ai maturity assessment by team blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page activtrak.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow ActivTrak

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.

The company

ActivTrak is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: work intelligence platform for productivity optimization
activtrak.com
For: leaders and enterprises
activtrak.com
Price stated: Free $0; Work Activity Tracking $10 worker/month billed annually; Workforce Management $15 worker/month billed annually; Productivity Optimization $17 worker/month billed annually; Workflow $21 worker/month billed annually activtrak.com/pricing
Starting price: 0 activtrak.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Get started free activtrak.com
Certifications: SOC 2 Type 2HIPAAGDPRCCPASOC 2 Type ISOC 2 Type II
Hosting: USEUUKAUCA
Customers named: Parts ASAPJeff EricsonJohn B. FraserScott FriesenChris LekousisKasey KonkrightJenn FeeAGI
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What ActivTrak's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: activtrak.com, activtrak.com/pricing, trust.activtrak.com, activtrak.com/product, activtrak.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where ActivTrak 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 ActivTrak, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where ActivTrak 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 ActivTrak first in Employee monitoring 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 October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/employee-monitoring/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/activtrak--employee-monitoring-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Employee monitoring, October 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 monitoring standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

Show the code

<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/employee-monitoring/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/activtrak--employee-monitoring-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Employee monitoring, October 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 monitoring standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

Show the code

<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/planning/employee-monitoring/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/activtrak--employee-monitoring-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Employee monitoring, October 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 monitoring 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.