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 60 of 67, unchanged
Prelude
26Judge labels
1First choices
8Negative labels
12 / 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 Interview scheduling for enterprise buyers
Rank 36 of 75 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business63 of 69
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market36 of 75
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise12 of 75
2%17 labels
criticized challenger
In interview scheduling · 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 Prelude 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 0% | 36 of 75 | 25% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 20% | =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, Prelude held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Interview scheduling · 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 18 → 25 of 73
Enterprise▲+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 38 → 11 of 72
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interview scheduling | 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 18 → 36 of 75 |
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 Prelude 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 Prelude 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labels1
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 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.
“a simpler option, though it's usually better for less complex recruiting workflows” GPT-5.4 mini · Interview scheduling · direct prompt · alternative
“Choose Prelude if you're already in Gem and care about analytics.” GPT-5.4 mini · Interview scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Scaled teams with global panels.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Interview scheduling · 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.
“Prelude generally shouldn't be treated as a separate alternative in a current shortlist.” GPT-6 Luna · Interview scheduling · comparative prompt · hard negative
“reportedly being wound down and should not be on your shortlist for new purchases” Kimi K2 · Interview scheduling · direct prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Prelude, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Prelude was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Prelude, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Prelude 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 Prelude. 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 25 of the 26 answers that named Prelude and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cal.com18
goodtime.io15
lever.co15
agiled.app14
sapia.ai13
firsthr.app11
metaview.ai9
calendly.com8
intervue.io8
ustechautomations.com8
No domain is on file for Prelude, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Prelude stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Prelude stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“prelude”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 12,629 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 36 of 75 in interview scheduling
Segment leader
20%
Calendly
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 26 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.
Names read as Prelude
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Prelude; a claim can dispute any of them.
Calendly Sales / Prelude 1ModernLoop / Prelude 1
Follow Prelude
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 Prelude'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 Prelude, 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 Prelude by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Prelude 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 Prelude, 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.