Small business▲+18Since September 2026: 12% → 30%, +18 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
30%from 12% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 → 1 of 108
1 category · RankedAsk BambooHR
70Judge labels
16First choices
6Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
32% in HR AI assistants for small business buyers
Rank 21 of 142 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 21 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Ask BambooHR →By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at mid-market or enterprise.
Small business1 of 121
32%46 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market21 of 142
0%21 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise73 of 110
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
In hr ai assistants · 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 Ask BambooHR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 21 of 142 | 14% | 21 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Ask BambooHR held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · HR AI assistants · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 19 of 124
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 81 → 61 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR AI assistants | 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 11 → 21 of 142 |
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 Ask BambooHR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Ask BambooHR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct20 labels10
Paraphrase12 labels2
Comparative14 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels4
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative2 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative70 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 22 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 AI assistant built for BambooHR is noted as "Best for: Small to mid-sized businesses already in the BambooHR ecosystem"” Muse Glimmer 30B · HR AI assistants · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Their built-in AI assistant (Ask BambooHR) integrates seamlessly for policy/handbook queries” Grok 4.1 Fast · HR AI assistants · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“BambooHR offers the best balance of features and affordability for growing teams” Kimi K2 · HR AI assistants · budget prompt · alternative
“BambooHR offers AI-powered onboarding automation covering new-hire workflows” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR AI assistants · direct 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.
“*Skip if you're not already using BambooHR or need more sophisticated AI capabilities.*” Kimi K2 · HR AI assistants · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“typically better for smaller or simpler organizations than a mid-market B2B company” Perplexity Sonar · HR AI assistants · direct prompt · soft negative
“full pricing isn't public and AI features are more limited” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR AI assistants · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ask BambooHR, over the 70 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ask BambooHR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ask BambooHR, over the 70 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ask BambooHR was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Ask BambooHR. 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 69 of the 70 answers that named Ask BambooHR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com35
wonderchat.io34
resources.rework.com29
gusto.com26
firsthr.app25
moveworks.com22
bamboohr.comYour site18
workativ.com18
humand.co17
workhuman.com17
223 of the 241 domain citations in answers naming Ask BambooHR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bamboohr.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Ask BambooHR takes 0% of first choices and MeBeBot takes 21%.ShowHide
Search and answers
bamboohr.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Ask BambooHR takes 0% of first choices and MeBeBot takes 21%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “hr ai assistants”
6
Position for “ai assistant for hr teams”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 10 a month (“ask bamboohr”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,055,247 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 66,775 · 5,497 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 37,276
- Paid Google search
- 11 searches its ads show for, about 2,427 clicks and $44,698 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 21 of 142 in HR AI assistants
Segment leader
21%
MeBeBot
- First choices
- 16 across its categories
- Named in
- 70 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 69 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on bamboohr.com
3,095
subdomains included
Content
1,788
counted in the table below
Documentation
2
Product · Integration
91 · 253
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 937 | undated | |||
| News or press | 360 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 214 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 174 | undated | |||
| Case study | 53 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 20 | 0 | 2025-11-04 | ||
| Template or tool | 17 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2025-07-31 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2025-11-04Visibility vs value modern workplaceirina doytcheva comparison
- 2025-10-31Ai skepticism vs overconfidence under armour sunita braynard comparison
- 2025-07-31Shrm conference ai human potential clayton lord conference or event
- 2025-06-16Cisco hybrid work study 2025 flexibility vs rto comparison
- 2020-03-02In person visit to bamboohr sales team the entire team will be invited 4000 points conference or event
- 2020-03-02In person visit to bamboohr sales team 5 10 sales reps invited 2000 points conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page bamboohr.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 Ask BambooHR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Ask BambooHR; a claim can dispute any of them.
BambooHR 14BambooHR (Ask BambooHR) 3BambooHR AI 2BambooHR's Ask BambooHR 1
Follow Ask BambooHR
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
Ask BambooHR is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Ask BambooHR is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI Powered HR Support with Ask BambooHR®
- For
- employees and HR teams
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free Trial bamboohr.com
- Integrations claimed
- 150 bamboohr.com/platform/hr-data-and-reporting/ask-bamboohr
- Certifications
- SOC IISOC ISOC 2 Type 2
- Hosting
- United StatesCanadaIreland
- Customers named
- Childcare WorldwideABI Attachments2Great Pediatric TherapyCulture AmpHTeaOValuizeRepoweredCancer Support Community
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price
What Ask BambooHR's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: bamboohr.com/platform/hr-data-and-reporting/ask-bamboohr, bamboohr.com, bamboohr.com/pricing, bamboohr.com/security, bamboohr.com/platform. 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 Ask BambooHR'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 Ask BambooHR, 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 Ask BambooHR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Ask BambooHR 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 Ask BambooHR, 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.