Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 5% → 9%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 2 of 89, unchanged
2 categories · RankedBlink
165Judge labels
26First choices
8Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
24% in Frontline employee apps for enterprise buyers
Rank 2 of 106 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 2% of its 49 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Blink →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business2 of 90
8%39 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 106
20%49 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 91
24%45 labels
accepted challenger
In frontline employee apps · 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 Blink 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 20% | 2 of 106 | 2% | 49 | accepted challenger | ▲+7Since September 2026: 14% → 20%, +7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal communications and intranet | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 20 of 86 | 0% | 12 | accepted challenger | =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, Blink held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Frontline employee apps · by segment
Mid-market▲+7Since September 2026: 14% → 20%, +7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
20%from 14% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 2 of 100, unchanged
Enterprise▲+3Since September 2026: 21% → 24%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
24%from 21% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 of 82, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontline employee apps | 14% | 20% | ▲+7Since September 2026: 14% → 20%, +7 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 106, unchanged |
| Internal communications | 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 23 → 20 of 86 |
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 Blink 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 Blink 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 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct40 labels12
Paraphrase16 labels1
Comparative41 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained35 labels10
Scale-constrained19 labels3
Negative14 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative165 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 34 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.
“Blink is built specifically for frontline and deskless workers... best for predominantly deskless, mid-market to enterprise organizations.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice
“If communication is your primary need: Blink delivers the highest frontline adoption rates at an affordable per-user price.” Kimi K2 · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice
“Stick to agile, mobile-first platforms like Blink or Connecteam for the fastest return on investment.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice
“Connecteam and Blink are frequently recommended as the best frontline employee communication apps” Mistral Small · Frontline employee apps · 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.
“no permanent free tier for the full feature set ... be aware it adds a recurring line item from day one” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Blink, over the 165 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Blink was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Blink, over the 165 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Blink 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 Blink. 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 164 of the 165 answers that named Blink and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
joinblink.comYour site124
mangoapps.com101
oak.com84
guideflow.com81
staffbase.com77
g2.com50
firsthr.app47
peoplemanagingpeople.com46
hr-ai-index.com42
agilityportal.io40
568 of the 692 domain citations in answers naming Blink came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
joinblink.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Blink takes 20% of first choices and Connecteam takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
joinblink.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Blink takes 20% of first choices and Connecteam takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “frontline apps”
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not in the top ten
Position for “frontline employee communication app”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 201,000 a month (“blink”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 96,479 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 17,400 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,718 · 176 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,876
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
20%
rank 2 of 106 in frontline employee apps
Segment leader
49%
Connecteam
- First choices
- 26 across its categories
- Named in
- 165 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 164 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 joinblink.com
816
subdomains included
Content
224
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
40 · 37
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 87 | undated | HRIS and HCM platforms | ||
| Comparison | 52 | undated | Internal communications | ||
| Case study | 29 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 16 | undated | |||
| Blog | 11 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 11 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 10 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 5 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Events in person
Last twelve months
- May 13, 2026The Blink Collective — Potential Unlocked LIVEThe Pavilion Club - Cannon Green, 27 Bush Lane, London EC4R 0AA, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom · hosted
As the event pages on joinblink.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page joinblink.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 Blink
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
Blink is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Blink is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The leading mobile-first employee experience platform
- For
- frontline teams
- Price stated
- Core Plan: $3.75 per user, per month, billed annually; monthly billing available at $4.50/user/month. Pro Plan: $5.00 per user, per month, billed annually; monthly billing available at $6.00/user/month. joinblink.com
- Starting price
- 3.75 joinblink.com
- Free plan or trial
- 14-day free trial joinblink.com
- Certifications
- ISO27001SOCIIGDPRHIPAA
- Customers named
- JD GroupeasyJetJD SportsMcDonald'sGoodwillDomino'sElaraChildren's of Alabama
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Blink's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: joinblink.com, joinblink.com/pricing, trust.joinblink.com, joinblink.com/features/chat, joinblink.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 Blink'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 Blink, 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 Blink by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Blink 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 Blink, 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 Blink is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Blink is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideBlink is among the products AI models recommend first in Frontline employee apps 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
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
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.