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Cascade Strategy

22Judge labels
1First choices
9Negative labels
10 / 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
0% in Goals and OKRs for enterprise buyers
Rank 14 of 68 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 50% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In goals and okrs · 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 Cascade Strategy 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Goals and OKRsPerformance and talent management2%14 of 6850%4under 10 labels · led by Perdoo at 24%=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, Cascade Strategy held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Goals and OKRs · by segment

Small business=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 35 → 56 of 58
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 20 → 45 of 62
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 13 → 12 of 54

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Goals and OKRs0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 20 → 14 of 68

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 Cascade Strategy across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B10012

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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labels1
Comparative4 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative7 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 3 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.

“Best overall for strategic alignment: Cascade Strategy” Muse Glimmer 30B · Goals and OKRs · 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.

“It is significantly more expensive and complex to implement than Mooncamp or Perdoo; smaller teams often find it overkill.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Goals and OKRs · direct prompt · soft negative
“though it needs a dedicated strategy team to run well” Muse Glimmer 30B · Goals and OKRs · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cascade Strategy, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cascade Strategy was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Perdoo17 of 222Not among the top eight
Betterworks17 of 221Not among the top eight
WorkBoard15 of 221Not among the top eight
Mooncamp14 of 222Not among the top eight
Lattice14 of 221Not among the top eight
Profit.co14 of 221Not among the top eight
Tability9 of 224Not among the top eight
OKRs Tool9 of 222Not among the top eight
Quantive9 of 220Not among the top eight
Weekdone8 of 221Not 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 Cascade Strategy. 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 22 of the 22 answers that named Cascade Strategy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mooncamp.com20
okrstool.com20
tability.io20
profit.co11
cascade.appYour site10
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
okrinstitute.org9
workboard.com9
synergita.com8
teamflect.com8

115 of the 125 domain citations in answers naming Cascade Strategy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cascade.app is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cascade Strategy takes 2% of first choices and Perdoo takes 24%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “okr tools”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “okr software”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
210 a month (“cascade strategy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
23 a month
Its company's site
cascade.app shared with Cascade's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 56,016 a month
Searches its site ranks for
15,118 · 533 in the top three
Sites linking to it
3,062
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
11 ads · 10 image, 1 video · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2025, as Responsis PTY LTD, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 1 in the year, 10 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 14 of 68 in goals and okrs
Segment leader
24%
Perdoo
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
22 answers
Its own site cited
in 22 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.

Names read as Cascade Strategy

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

Cascade is the company behind Cascade Strategy.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
For every 1,000 employees, poor strategy execution costs organizations an estimated $180m in unrealized value.
For
Organizations
Free plan or trial
free 30 min demo cascade.app/meet-cascade
Certifications
The only Balanced Scorecard platform the Institute endorses.Fully SOC 2 compliant
Hosting
UAESaudi Arabia
Customers named
Mercedes Benz
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, integrations

What Cascade Strategy's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cascade.app/cascade-roi, cascade.app/meet-cascade, cascade.app/strategy-platform, support.cascade.app/1.1-why-cascade, cascade.app/gcc-strategy-software. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Cascade Strategy 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 Cascade Strategy, 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.
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A verification link goes to your work email; an address at cascade.app is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.