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 26 → 25 of 138
1 category · Named, not rankedBain & Company
14Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
9 / 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.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Bain & Company was named 6 times in Compensation benchmarkin, where Pave led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market27 of 148
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise30 of 130
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
In compensation benchmarkin · 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 Bain & Company 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 27 of 148 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Bain & Company held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · by segment
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 23 → 26 of 115
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 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 → 27 of 148 |
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 Bain & Company 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 Bain & Company 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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 Bain & Company, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bain & Company was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bain & Company, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bain & Company 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 Bain & Company. 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 14 of the 14 answers that named Bain & Company and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
gitnux.org13
worldmetrics.org13
wifitalents.com11
zipdo.co11
apqc.org5
linkedin.com3
ravio.com3
rfp.wiki3
statpit.com3
thehackettgroup.com3
Sixty-eight of the sixty-eight domain citations in answers naming Bain & Company came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bain.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bain & Company takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
bain.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bain & Company takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “benchmarking providers”
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not in the top ten
Position for “salary benchmarking data provider”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“bain & company”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 597 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 342,966 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 40,351 · 3,649 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 54,319
- 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 27 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 14 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 14 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 bain.com
21,852
subdomains included
Content
7,378
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
1 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 5,717 | 5 | 2026-09-25 | Performance management, Employee engagement surv | |
| News or press | 1,335 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 120 | 4 | 2026-07-30 | ||
| Conference or event | 86 | 0 | 2026-03-02 | ||
| Podcast or video | 57 | 0 | 2025-12-19 | ||
| Comparison | 23 | 0 | 2020-02-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 19 | 3 | 2026-08-19 | Workforce planning | |
| Report or ebook | 15 | 0 | 2020-07-23 | ||
| Case study | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2020-04-07 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Building the ai era utility demands bold moves infographic blog
- 2026-09-21Customer engagement is bankings new battleground infographic blog
- 2026-09-17Us consumer health indexes blog
- 2026-08-19What is a modern data platform glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-06What is an ai native enterprise glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-03How is AI Changing the Way Bain Hires Consultants blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page bain.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 Bain & Company
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bain & Company; a claim can dispute any of them.
Bain 1McKinsey & Company / BCG / Bain 1
Follow Bain & Company
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
Bain & Company is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Bain & Company is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Bain & Company is a top management consulting firm.
- For
- leaders
- Certifications
- RAPID®
- Customers named
- Banca InvestisThe Hera GroupNatWestSoftwareCo3i groupAstorgBC PartnersChurch Commissioners
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Bain & Company's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: bain.com, bain.com/client-results/pricing-games-a-technology-company-develops-a-winning-approach, bain.com/how-we-help/private-markets-decarbonization-roadmap/use-cases. 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 Bain & Company'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 Bain & Company, 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 Bain & Company by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Bain & Company 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 Bain & Company, 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.