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 90 → 84 of 88
Cornerstone · 1 category · RankedCornerstone Succession
50Judge labels
2First choices
5Negative labels
14 / 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
3% in Succession planning for enterprise buyers
Rank 24 of 93 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cornerstone Succession →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business86 of 91
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market24 of 93
0%18 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 82
3%28 labels
accepted challenger
In succession planning · 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 Cornerstone Succession 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 24 of 93 | 11% | 18 | 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, Cornerstone Succession held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Succession planning · 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 22 of 87, unchanged
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 4 of 71, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Succession planning | 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 22 → 24 of 93 |
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 Cornerstone Succession 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 Cornerstone Succession 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct12 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labels1
Comparative19 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labels1
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.
“Choose a learning-integrated platform like Cornerstone OnDemand if development-path automation and learning integration is the primary driver” Muse Glimmer 30B · Succession planning · comparative prompt · alternative
“Cornerstone OnDemand (the gold standard if you want deep integration between learning management and talent pipelines)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Succession planning · scale prompt · alternative
“better to evaluate if you need deeper talent pools, succession grids, and career-development capabilities” GPT-6 Luna · Succession planning · direct prompt · alternative
“Choose Cornerstone OnDemand if learning and development are central to your succession process.” Perplexity Sonar · Succession planning · comparative 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.
“avoid purchasing them solely for succession” Muse Glimmer 30B · Succession planning · negative prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise HCM Suites Solely for Succession (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, Cornerstone OnDemand)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Succession planning · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cornerstone Succession, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cornerstone Succession was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cornerstone Succession, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cornerstone Succession 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 Cornerstone Succession. 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 48 of the 50 answers that named Cornerstone Succession and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
skillpanel.com36
engagedly.com33
guideflow.com29
talentguard.com28
firsthr.app27
teammeter.com22
darwinbox.com16
peoplemanagingpeople.com14
worldmetrics.org14
hr-ai-index.com13
232 of the 232 domain citations in answers naming Cornerstone Succession came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cornerstoneondemand.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cornerstone Succession takes 0% of first choices and Lattice takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cornerstoneondemand.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cornerstone Succession takes 0% of first choices and Lattice takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “succession planning tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “succession planning software”
1
- Searches for its name, Google
- 10 a month (“cornerstone succession”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7 a month
- Its company's site
- cornerstoneondemand.com shared with Cornerstone's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 33,785 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 8,315 · 511 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 8,883
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 64 clicks and $428 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 24 of 93 in succession planning
Segment leader
28%
Lattice
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 50 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 48 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 Cornerstone Succession
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cornerstone Succession; a claim can dispute any of them.
Cornerstone OnDemand 15Cornerstone Succession / Cornerstone Performance 1
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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.
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The company
Cornerstone is the company behind Cornerstone Succession.ShowHide
The company
Cornerstone is the company behind Cornerstone Succession.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Cornerstone
- Cornerstone Content Subscriptions, Cornerstone Galaxy, Cornerstone OnDemand, Cornerstone Skills Graph
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Customers named
- United AirlinesAflacKonica MinoltaCiscoGeneraliGE HealthcareAnimates Vetcare
- Not stated on the pages read
- Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Cornerstone Succession's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cornerstoneondemand.com, cornerstoneondemand.com/platform, cornerstoneondemand.com/customer-stories, cornerstoneondemand.com/partners. 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 Cornerstone Succession'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 Cornerstone Succession, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cornerstone Succession by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cornerstone Succession 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 Cornerstone Succession, 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.