Small business=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 → 6 of 50
5 categories · RankedAssembly
57Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Recognition and rewards for small business buyers
Rank 15 of 98 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 52
2%26 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market15 of 98
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise14 of 48
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
In recognition and rewards · 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 Assembly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recognition and rewards | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 15 of 98 | 0% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Bonusly at 29% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal communications and intranet | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 43 of 86 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Teams at 14% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Employee engagement surveys | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 33 of 58 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 30 of 85 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Staffing agency platforms | Talent acquisition | 0% | 69 of 136 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Assembly held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Recognition and rewards · by segment
Mid-market=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 14 of 87, unchanged
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 4 → 13 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recognition and rewards | 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 14 → 15 of 98 |
| Internal communications | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 43 of 86, unchanged |
| Employee engagement surv | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 33 of 58, unchanged |
| Performance management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 30 of 85, unchanged |
| Staffing agency tools | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 69 of 136, 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 Assembly 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 Assembly 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 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct10 labels1
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative20 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.
“~$2–$5/user/month, strong ratings (4.8/5), but no true free tier—trials only.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · alternative
“Assembly is best for teams who want to start rewarding employees for free” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · alternative
“Offers a free tier with core recognition and feedback features.” Kimi K2 · Performance management · budget prompt · alternative
“Assembly ($3/user/month) or Matter ($1/user/month)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recognition and rewards · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Assembly, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Assembly was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Assembly, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Assembly 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 Assembly. 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 56 of the 57 answers that named Assembly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com30
workhuman.com27
g2.com25
firsthr.app24
selectsoftwarereviews.com24
engagedly.com23
thrivesparrow.com22
tremendous.com22
bonusly.com20
achievers.com16
233 of the 233 domain citations in answers naming Assembly came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
joinassembly.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Assembly takes 0% of first choices and Bonusly takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
joinassembly.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Assembly takes 0% of first choices and Bonusly takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “recognition platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “employee recognition platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“assembly”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 76,788 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 10,398 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,195 · 67 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,153
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 15 of 98 in recognition and rewards
Segment leader
29%
Bonusly
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 57 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 56 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 joinassembly.com
955
subdomains included
Content
757
counted in the table below
Documentation
65
Product · Integration
8 · 37
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 619 | 14 | 2026-09-22 | Performance management, HRIS and HCM platforms | |
| Comparison | 47 | 1 | 2026-07-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 41 | 0 | 2023-05-26 | Employee onboarding | |
| Conference or event | 22 | 0 | 2025-04-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 21 | 0 | 2026-03-26 | ||
| Case study | 3 | 0 | 2022-03-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22How to make weekly check ins productive blog
- 2026-09-22What makes for a good hr manager here are the must haves blog
- 2026-09-19The 7 benefits of an effective meeting agenda blog
- 2026-09-16Coworker birthday wishes blog
- 2026-09-11360 degree feedback examples blog
- 2026-09-05Halloween team building activities blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page joinassembly.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.
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The company
Assembly is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Assembly is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Best Employee Recognition & Rewards Platform
- For
- HR and People teams
- Price stated
- Custom pricing available through sales joinassembly.com
- Starting price
- $3 joinassembly.com/pricing
- Certifications
- Security & ComplianceTrust CenterGDPR
- Customers named
- INSBankAdDaptive Intelligence Inc.Promenade Group, Inc.ApploiTI/NTGMinding Miracles Learning Center
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Assembly's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: joinassembly.com, joinassembly.com/pricing, trust.joinassembly.com, joinassembly.com/product/free, joinassembly.com/resources/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Assembly'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 Assembly, 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 Assembly by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Assembly 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 Assembly, 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.