Small business▲+14Since September 2026: 9% → 23%, +14 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
23%from 9% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 5 → 1 of 60
Effy · 6 categories · RankedEffy AI
116Judge labels
36First choices
3Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
6Categories
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 360 feedback for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Effy AI →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 63
24%48 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 73
17%17 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise46 of 69
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
In 360 feedback · 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 Effy AI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 17% | 2 of 73 | 0% | 17 | accepted challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 12% → 17%, +5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 12% | 2 of 85 | 0% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 11% → 12%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 16 of 142 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by MeBeBot at 21% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Coaching platforms | Learning and development | 0% | 53 of 128 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 20% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 83 of 140 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 54 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Effy AI held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · 360 feedback · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 12% → 17%, +5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 2 of 69, unchanged
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 18 → 44 of 59
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360 feedback | 12% | 17% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 12% → 17%, +5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 73, unchanged |
| HR AI assistants | 4% | 2% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 → 16 of 142 |
| Performance management | 11% | 12% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 11% → 12%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 85, unchanged |
| Coaching platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 128, unchanged |
| Compensation management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 83 of 140, unchanged |
| Pay equity | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 54 of 73, unchanged |
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 Effy AI 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 Effy AI 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct16 labels4
Paraphrase11 labelsNone
Comparative24 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained44 labels31
Scale-constrained8 labels1
Negative13 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative116 labels in all, every segment counted; 36 of the 46 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.
“The best 360-degree feedback tool for a company with a limited budget is Effy AI, which offers a free plan with unlimited reviews” Llama 4 Maverick · 360 feedback · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Effy AI (free up to 5 users) or FeedbackPulse (free up to 10 users) to test the process with no upfront cost.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 360 feedback · budget prompt · first choice
“For the absolute lowest budget, Effy AI, Zoho People, Teamflect, or Leapsome's free plans are excellent starting points.” Mistral Small · Performance management · budget prompt · first choice
“"Best free 360 feedback software for small teams starting out"; "Zero budget, <5-10 people: Effy AI free plan"” Muse Glimmer 30B · 360 feedback · 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 model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Effy AI, over the 116 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Effy AI was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Effy AI, over the 116 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Effy AI 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 Effy AI. 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 116 of the 116 answers that named Effy AI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
effy.aiYour site81
workhuman.com68
betterworks.com62
firsthr.app61
feedbackpulse.com59
peoplemanagingpeople.com54
teamflect.com53
charliehr.com40
nanoglobals.com35
capterra.com34
466 of the 547 domain citations in answers naming Effy AI came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
effy.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Effy AI takes 17% of first choices and Lattice takes 34%.ShowHide
Search and answers
effy.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Effy AI takes 17% of first choices and Lattice takes 34%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “360 feedback tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “360-degree feedback tool”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 140 a month (“effy ai”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its company's site
- effy.ai shared with Effy's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 40,950 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 11,389 · 48 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,164
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
17%
rank 2 of 73 in 360 feedback
Segment leader
34%
Lattice
- First choices
- 36 across its categories
- Named in
- 116 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 116 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 Effy AI
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Effy AI; a claim can dispute any of them.
Effy 2Effy.ai 1
Follow Effy AI
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
Effy is the company behind Effy AI.ShowHide
The company
Effy is the company behind Effy AI.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI for HR course
- For
- HR
- Price stated
- FREE COURSE effy.ai/ai-for-hr
- Free plan or trial
- FREE COURSE effy.ai/ai-for-hr
- Integrations claimed
- 3 effy.ai/ai-for-hr/autopilot · 4 effy.ai/ai-for-hr/onboarding-plan pages disagree
- Customers named
- NxEleos HealthFirst Choice Health
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, certifications, hosting
What Effy AI's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: effy.ai/ai-for-hr, effy.ai/ai-for-hr/autopilot, effy.ai/ai-for-hr/basic-setup, effy.ai/ai-for-hr/context-files, effy.ai/ai-for-hr/onboarding-plan. 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 Effy AI'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 Effy AI, 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 Effy AI by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Effy AI 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 Effy AI, 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 Effy AI 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 Effy AI is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHide360 feedback
Effy AI is among the products AI models recommend first in 360 feedback 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
Performance management
Effy AI is among the products AI models recommend first in Performance management 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.