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Koan

7Judge 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
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Koan was named 3 times in Goals and OKRs, where Perdoo led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
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 Koan 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 management0%65 of 6867%3under 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, Koan held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Goals and OKRs · by segment

Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 43 → 11 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 52 → 61 of 62

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 52 → 65 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 Koan 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 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 label1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“acquired and subsequently sunsetted/absorbed by larger HR and strategy suites” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · hard negative
“Shut down/acquired | Product no longer exists” Kimi K2 · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Koan, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Koan was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
WorkBoard7 of 70Not among the top eight
Weekdone5 of 71Not among the top eight
Lattice4 of 70Not among the top eight
Microsoft Viva Goals4 of 70Not among the top eight
Perdoo4 of 70Not among the top eight
Quantive4 of 70Not among the top eight
Betterworks3 of 70Not among the top eight
Profit.co3 of 70Not among the top eight
15Five2 of 70Not among the top eight
7Geese2 of 70Not 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 Koan. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Koan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

okrstool.com5
workboard.com4
firsthr.app3
mooncamp.com3
peoplemanager.net3
tability.io3
worxmate.ai3
capterra.com2
ones.com2
onstrategyhq.com2

No domain is on file for Koan, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Koan stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
12,100 a month (“koan”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
378 a month
Its own site
No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 65 of 68 in goals and okrs
Segment leader
24%
Perdoo
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
7 answers
Its own site cited
No site on file to match

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.

Follow Koan

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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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 Koan'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 Koan, 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 Koan by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Koan 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 Koan, 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.

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at the vendor's own domain 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.