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 50 → 43 of 58
1 category · Named, not rankedCocoon
13Judge labels
1First choices
3Negative labels
6 / 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
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cocoon was named 4 times in Leave, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business60 of 65
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market26 of 95
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise11 of 98
2%5 labels
under the label threshold
In leave · 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 Cocoon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 26 of 95 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | =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, Cocoon held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Leave · 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 32 → 25 of 91
Enterprise=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 10 of 89, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave | 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 32 → 26 of 95 |
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 Cocoon 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 Cocoon 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 label1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“Choose Cocoon or Tilt if your current HRIS is fine, but you are drowning in state-by-state FMLA laws” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · direct prompt · alternative
“Invest in dedicated case management software like Tilt, Cocoon, or AbsenceSoft” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · negative 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 Cocoon, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cocoon was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cocoon, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cocoon 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 Cocoon. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Cocoon and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com9
peoplemanagingpeople.com9
employsome.com6
firsthr.app6
forbes.com6
articsledge.com5
attendancebot.com5
gitnux.org5
hrcertification.com5
leapsome.com5
Sixty-one of the sixty-one domain citations in answers naming Cocoon came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cocoon.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cocoon takes 0% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cocoon.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cocoon takes 0% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “leave management tools”
3
Position for “leave management software”
3
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“cocoon”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 8,124 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,990 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,004 · 44 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 797
- 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 26 of 95 in leave
Segment leader
28%
BambooHR
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 13 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 13 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cocoon.com
212
subdomains included
Content
145
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
4 · 4
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 69 | undated | Leave | ||
| Conference or event | 39 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated | |||
| Case study | 7 | undated | Leave | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cocoon.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 Cocoon
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
Cocoon is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Cocoon is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Employee leave management software that automates the complexities of compliance, claims, and payroll for People teams and their employees.
- For
- People teams and their employees
- Price stated
- Cocoon charges an upfront annual per employee per year fee based on company size plus a one-time implementation fee cocoon.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 1000 cocoon.com/product/claims
- Integrations claimed
- 20 cocoon.com/pricing
- Certifications
- CLMS certified Support team
- Customers named
- Active CampaignBenchlingBAGGUKhan AcademyStaceyXP PowerActiveCampaignHoneybook
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, hosting
What Cocoon's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cocoon.com, cocoon.com/pricing, trust.cocoon.com, cocoon.com/product/claims, cocoon.com/customers. 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 Cocoon'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 Cocoon, 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 Cocoon by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cocoon 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 Cocoon, 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.