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 16 → 15 of 50
1 category · RankedMentorCruise
38Judge labels
1First choices
12Negative labels
13 / 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
2% in Mentoring software for small business buyers
Rank 18 of 77 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 20 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of MentorCruise →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business11 of 54
2%10 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market18 of 77
0%20 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise44 of 44
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
In mentoring software · 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 MentorCruise 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentoring software | Learning and development | 0% | 18 of 77 | 20% | 20 | 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, MentorCruise held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Mentoring software · 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 16 → 18 of 74
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 33 → 43 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentoring software | 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 16 → 18 of 77 |
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 MentorCruise 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 MentorCruise 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 label1
Negative18 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 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.
“Focuses on tech/career mentorship with vetted experts... Best for long-term mentoring in tech, product, design, or career.” MiniMax M2.5 · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative
“Recommended platforms with strong reputations include ADPList (free for tech/design), MentorCruise, and GrowthMentor” MiniMax M2.5 · Mentoring software · negative prompt · alternative
“Paid marketplace for ongoing 1:1 mentorship, often in software, product, data, or career growth.” GPT-5.4 mini · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative
“For individuals paying for a dedicated tech or career mentor through subscription per mentor.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Mentoring software · 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.
“Mixed reviews, with some users flagging unusual payment requests ... Despite these complaints, the platform maintains generally positive ratings elsewhere” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative
“frequent complaints about mentor inactivity... Proceed if you can afford the loss” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative
“they require careful navigation because of their subscription model” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative
“Caution: Quality varies significantly by individual mentor” Kimi K2 · Mentoring software · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as MentorCruise, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MentorCruise was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as MentorCruise, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MentorCruise 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 MentorCruise. 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 36 of the 38 answers that named MentorCruise and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
growthmentor.com25
mentorcruise.comYour site22
chronus.com17
adplist.org16
peoplemanagingpeople.com16
qooper.io16
g2.com12
mentorcliq.com11
togetherplatform.com11
mentorcity.com9
133 of the 155 domain citations in answers naming MentorCruise came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
mentorcruise.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, MentorCruise takes 0% of first choices and Together takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
mentorcruise.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, MentorCruise takes 0% of first choices and Together takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “mentoring platforms”
4
Position for “mentoring program software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“mentorcruise”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 32 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 50,162 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 14,818 · 636 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,500
- 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 18 of 77 in mentoring software
Segment leader
28%
Together
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 38 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 36 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
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on mentorcruise.com
10,044
subdomains included
Content
1,633
counted in the table below
Documentation
102
Product · Integration
24 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,318 | 5 | 2026-09-28 | Applicant tracking syste, Employee onboarding | |
| Conference or event | 245 | 1 | 2026-08-09 | ||
| Comparison | 42 | 1 | 2026-07-18 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | 2 | 2026-09-27 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 0 | 2024-09-30 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | 1 | 2026-07-04 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2024-10-21 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Ai assisted sdlc ebbff blog
- 2026-09-27What is change management definition models and how to do it well glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-25Team building activities for work that people do not resent blog
- 2026-09-07We want to use more ai across the business where do we actually start e57fa blog
- 2026-09-07What happened to data science f02c3 blog
- 2026-08-31What is leadership definition examples and how to get better at it glossary or explainer
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Every page mentorcruise.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.
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The company
MentorCruise is its own company.ShowHide
The company
MentorCruise is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- MentorCruise connects aspiring tech workers with industry professionals for long-term mentorship in Software Engineering, Product, Design and Business.
- For
- aspiring tech workers
- Price stated
- Every price is on the profile. mentorcruise.com
- Starting price
- 100 mentorcruise.com
- Free plan or trial
- A free first call mentorcruise.com
- Certifications
- verified reviewspre-vettedcontinuously evaluated
- Customers named
- UberAzure Dragon CyberEx-DocuSign, Box, Tradeshift, SalesforceIBMTalendMicrosoftDojoCollabify
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What MentorCruise's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: mentorcruise.com, mentorcruise.com/coach/pricing, mentorcruise.com/coach/compliance, mentorcruise.com/coach/platform, mentorcruise.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for MentorCruise by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where MentorCruise 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 MentorCruise, 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.