Every category where a model named Ashby 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
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	10%	3 of 65	0%	32	accepted challenger	▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	4%	7 of 90	17%	12	accepted challenger	▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	2%	13 of 111	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15%	=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Staffing agency platforms	Talent acquisition	2%	13 of 136	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22%
Interview scheduling	Talent acquisition	2%	10 of 75	0%	18	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	0%	26 of 104	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	28 of 90	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Pin at 27%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	125 of 142	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by MeBeBot at 21%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, Ashby held within the floor in all eight categories: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Applicant tracking syste · by segment

Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

4%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 → 6 of 47

Mid-market▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

10%from 7% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 5 → 3 of 54

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 7 → 8 of 53

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
AI recruiting assistants	7%	0%	▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 5 → 7 of 90
Applicant tracking syste	7%	10%	▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 5 → 3 of 65
Talent intelligence	2%	0%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 12 → 28 of 90
Staffing agency tools	0%	2%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.	New this edition	Rank 13 of 136, unchanged
Recruiting CRM	2%	2%	=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 11 → 13 of 111
Interview scheduling	2%	2%	=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 11 → 10 of 75
Recruitment marketing	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 26 of 104, unchanged
HR AI assistants	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 125 of 142, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Ashby 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	0	3	1	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	5	5	3	1	14
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	6	0	10
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	2	0	6
Kimi K2	0	3	1	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	4	3	0	9
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	3	6	0	0	9
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	4	1	6

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

Direct43 labels7

Paraphrase35 labels9

Comparative38 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels1

Scale-constrained21 labels3

Negative24 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative173 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 24 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.

“Ashby if data-driven decisions and pipeline nurturing are your top priorities.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Applicant tracking syste · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The ultimate analytics-first platform for modern, data-obsessed recruiting teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · first choice

“Ashby: A fast-rising favorite for tech and high-growth mid-market companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · scale prompt · first choice

“Ashby is currently the fastest-growing ATS in the mid-market space.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · paraphrase 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.

“under investigation for potentially providing consumer reports without adhering to FCRA requirements, alongside Workday, Greenhouse, Lever By Employ, Ashby” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

“Class-action attorneys have launched broad investigations into popular tools like Greenhouse, Lever by Employ, and Ashby.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

“these platforms are being investigated for potential Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) violations” Kimi K2 · HR AI assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ashby, over the 173 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ashby was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Greenhouse114 of 17331Compare →

Lever89 of 1735Compare →

Workable51 of 1737Compare →

Gem40 of 1736Compare →

Workday Recruiting39 of 1733Not among the top eight

GoodTime38 of 17316Compare →

Calendly36 of 1739Compare →

iCIMS35 of 1735Not among the top eight

SmartRecruiters28 of 1733Not among the top eight

Eightfold AI25 of 1732Not 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 Ashby. 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 160 of the 173 answers that named Ashby and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pin.com68

lever.co60

greenhouse.com51

metaview.ai50

g2.com45

learn.g2.com40

hiretruffle.com38

peoplemanagingpeople.com35

selectsoftwarereviews.com34

pinpointhq.com31

452 of the 452 domain citations in answers naming Ashby came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pinpointhq.com/insights/best-applicant-tracking-system28

pin.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems23

lever.co/insights/best-interview-scheduling-software20

cal.com/blog/best-interview-scheduling-software19

greenhouse.com/blog/best-ats-software19

zapier.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems19

sapia.ai/resources/blog/automated-interview-scheduler-top-platforms17

gem.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-system16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

ashbyhq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ashby takes 10% of first choices and Greenhouse takes 40%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “applicant tracking system”

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not in the top ten

Position for “applicant tracking systems”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 49,500 a month (“ashby”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3,112 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 216,820 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 19,596 · 2,930 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 14,018
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

16 ads · 16 text · 16 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2024, as Ashby, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 2 in the year, 14 before. 15 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

10%

rank 3 of 65 in applicant tracking syste

Segment leader

40%

Greenhouse

First choices: 20 across its categories
Named in: 173 answers
Its own site cited: in 160 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 ashbyhq.com

1,043

subdomains included

Content

252

counted in the table below

Documentation

503

Product · Integration

4 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	101	4	2026-08-31	Applicant tracking syste
Podcast or video	74	6	2026-09-22
Case study	32	undated
Report or ebook	18	3	2026-09-09
Conference or event	14	undated
Comparison	7	1	2026-09-10
Glossary or explainer	4	undated
News or press	2	0	2024-09-24

Most recent

2026-09-22What recruiting teams can learn from customer support podcast or video
2026-09-10Debunking the speed vs quality myth comparison
2026-09-09Quality of hire report or ebook
2026-09-09Emea recruiter productivity report or ebook
2026-09-08Building an ideal candidate profile podcast or video
2026-08-31How we think about sales quotas and incentives at ashby blog

Events in person

Upcoming

November 12, 2026Ashby ACE, SeattleWeWork Office Space & Coworking (5th floor), Seattle, US · hosts

Last twelve months

September 17, 2026Ashby MCP Deep Dive, SeattleWeWork Office Space & Coworking (5th floor), Seattle, US · hosted
September 16, 2026Ashby MCP Deep Dive, Toronto 🇨🇦Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), Toronto, CA · hosted

As the event pages on ashbyhq.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

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Every page ashbyhq.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.

Names read as Ashby

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

Ashby/Greenhouse 1

Follow Ashby

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

Ashby is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: All-in-one Recruiting Software for Ambitious Teams
ashbyhq.com
For: ambitious teams from Startups to Enterprises
ashbyhq.com
Price stated: $400 /Month ashbyhq.com/pricing
Starting price: 400 ashbyhq.com/pricing
Integrations claimed: 250 ashbyhq.com/pricing
Certifications: SOC 2 Type 2EU-US DPFSwiss-US DPFUK Extension to EU-US DPFSOC 1 Type 2
Customers named: NETGEARVantaOyster HRClayDaveRad AILemonadeSequoia
Not stated on the pages read: Free plan or trial, hosting

What Ashby's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ashbyhq.com, ashbyhq.com/pricing, trust.ashbyhq.com, ashbyhq.com/platform/recruiting/ats, ashbyhq.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Ashby 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 Ashby, 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 Ashby 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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Ashby is among the products AI models recommend first in Applicant tracking systems 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

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<a href="https://hr-ai-index.com/talent/applicant-tracking-systems/"><img src="https://hr-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/ashby--applicant-tracking-systems-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Applicant tracking systems, 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 Applicant tracking systems standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Applicant tracking systems 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.