Small business▼−3Since September 2026: 9% → 5%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 9% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 3 → 8 of 125
6 categories · RankedFuel50
206Judge labels
41First choices
44Negative 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
47% in Internal talent marketpl for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 102 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
12 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 41 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Fuel50 →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business11 of 129
4%30 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market1 of 102
47%41 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise2 of 86
22%52 labels
accepted challenger
In internal talent marketpl · 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 Fuel50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 47% | 1 of 102 | 12% | 41 | endorsed leader | ▲+19Since September 2026: 26% → 45%, +19 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 6% | 5 of 90 | 9% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 4% | 8 of 127 | 0% | 14 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 23 of 98 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Learning experience platforms | Learning and development | 0% | 84 of 89 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by 360Learning at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 38 of 93 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice 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, Fuel50 moved past the floor in one of six categories: Internal talent marketpl, +19 points to 45%. It held within the floor in the other five.
Best category · Internal talent marketpl · by segment
Mid-market▲+19Since September 2026: 26% → 45%, +19 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
45%from 26% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 6 pointsRank 1 of 93, unchanged
Enterprise▲+8Since September 2026: 16% → 23%, +8 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
23%from 16% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 2 of 76, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal talent marketpl | 26% | 45% | ▲+19Since September 2026: 26% → 45%, +19 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 1 of 102, unchanged |
| Talent intelligence | 4% | 7% | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 5 of 90 |
| Skills intelligence | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 8 of 127 |
| Workforce planning | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 23 of 98, unchanged |
| Learning experience plat | 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 53 → 84 of 89 |
| 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 41 → 38 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 Fuel50 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 Fuel50 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 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
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
Direct52 labels15
Paraphrase38 labels15
Comparative36 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained36 labels9
Scale-constrained23 labels2
Negative21 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative206 labels in all, every segment counted; 41 of the 45 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.
“For mid-market companies specifically, Fuel50 and Eightfold tend to be the most commonly recommended options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal talent marketpl · direct prompt · first choice
“Fuel50 is the best default recommendation for a mid-market B2B company looking for an internal talent marketplace” Perplexity Sonar · Internal talent marketpl · direct prompt · first choice
“Fuel50 and Engagedly are frequently highlighted as top choices for mid-market B2B companies” Mistral Small · Internal talent marketpl · direct prompt · first choice
“Recommendation 1: Fuel50 Best Overall for True Talent Mobility & Personalized Career Paths” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · 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.
“Avoid enterprise-heavy ones like Gloat, Cornerstone, or Fuel50—they're quote-based/custom” Grok 4.1 Fast · Internal talent marketpl · budget prompt · hard negative
“Steer clear of enterprise platforms (Gloat, Workday, Fuel50)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal talent marketpl · budget prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid: ... Fuel50” Kimi K2 · Internal talent marketpl · budget prompt · hard negative
“vendors such as Fuel50 sell by employee count and selected modules, but require a quote—so confirm the total cost before investing time in a sales process” GPT-6 Luna · Internal talent marketpl · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Fuel50, over the 206 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fuel50 was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Fuel50, over the 206 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fuel50 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 Fuel50. 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 200 of the 206 answers that named Fuel50 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
fuel50.comYour site91
engagedly.com78
peoplemanagingpeople.com76
gartner.com68
hr-ai-index.com60
hrtechsaas.com59
g2.com57
skima.ai53
pin.com52
guideflow.com51
554 of the 645 domain citations in answers naming Fuel50 came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Fuel50 stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Fuel50 stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “talent marketplaces”
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not in the top ten
Position for “internal talent marketplace”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 480 a month (“fuel50”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 11,009 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 540 · 82 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,599
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
47%
rank 1 of 102 in internal talent marketpl
First choices
41
across its categories
- Named in
- 206 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 200 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 fuel50.com
482
subdomains included
Content
400
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
19 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 241 | 13 | 2026-09-24 | Internal talent marketpl, Succession planning | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 73 | 6 | 2026-09-24 | Skills intelligence, Internal talent marketpl | |
| News or press | 63 | 5 | 2026-09-24 | Skills intelligence | |
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | 0 | 2026-05-06 | Skills intelligence | |
| Comparison | 9 | 1 | 2026-08-10 | Skills intelligence | |
| Report or ebook | 1 | 0 | 2025-11-17 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24How to redesign work without reducing people to automation scores blog
- 2026-09-24Leader coach accelerating leadership impact webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-24Fuel50 launches task intelligence to drive responsible work redesign in the age of ai news or press
- 2026-09-23Succession at all altitudes webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-23Workforce agility built to move webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-22Tasks intelligence webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page fuel50.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 Fuel50
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Fuel50 is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Fuel50 is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Award-winning Workforce Transformation Platform powering how enterprises understand, activate, and evolve their talent.
- For
- HR leaders; enterprises transforming with people, not around them.
- Price stated
- Pricing fuel50.com
- Certifications
- five consecutive SOC2 auditsyears of New York Anti-Bias complianceSOC 2 Type IIGDPRNYC Local Law 144 independent anti-bias audit
- Customers named
- LennoxUniversity of California, IrvineRush EnterprisesKeyBankNetAppRelayrZ EnergyAIB Group
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Fuel50's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: fuel50.com, fuel50.com/pricing, trust.fuel50.com, fuel50.com/platform-overview. 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 Fuel50'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 Fuel50, 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 Fuel50 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Fuel50 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 Fuel50, 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 Fuel50 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 Fuel50 is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Fuel50 first in Internal talent marketplace 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.