Small business▼−11Since September 2026: 17% → 6%, −11 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 → 3 of 132
1 category · RankedRisely
25Judge labels
8First choices
1Negative labels
11 / 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
10% in Coaching platforms for enterprise buyers
Rank 35 of 128 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 144
5%10 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market35 of 128
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise4 of 55
10%12 labels
accepted challenger
In coaching platforms · 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 Risely 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coaching platforms | Learning and development | 0% | 35 of 128 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 20% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Risely held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Coaching platforms · by segment
Mid-market▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 32 of 117
Enterprise▼−5Since September 2026: 14% → 9%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 14% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 50
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coaching platforms | 4% | 0% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 35 of 128 |
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 Risely 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 Risely 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct4 labels1
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative6 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labels7
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 10 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.
“If you need more features, Risely at $59/user/month offers the best balance of functionality and transparent pricing” Kimi K2 · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · alternative
“best for mid-market teams (50-1,000) wanting measurable daily coaching with skill tracking” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Coaching platforms · direct 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Risely, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Risely was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Risely, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Risely 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 Risely. 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 25 answers that named Risely and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
boon-health.com17
risely.meYour site16
exec.com14
coachello.ai13
hr-ai-index.com11
us.fitgap.com10
simply.coach9
easygenerator.com8
torch.io8
getapp.com7
Ninety-seven of the 113 domain citations in answers naming Risely came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
risely.me is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Risely takes 0% of first choices and Growthspace takes 20%.ShowHide
Search and answers
risely.me is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Risely takes 0% of first choices and Growthspace takes 20%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “coaching platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “employee coaching platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“risely”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 227,910 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 6,577 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,147 · 2 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,075
- 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
0%
rank 35 of 128 in coaching platforms
Segment leader
20%
Growthspace
- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 25 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 25 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 risely.me
1,629
subdomains included
Content
1,448
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
9 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,333 | 64 | 2026-09-17 | Performance management, Candidate assessment | |
| Comparison | 62 | 0 | 2026-05-09 | Succession planning, Coaching platforms | |
| Glossary or explainer | 25 | 0 | 2023-08-28 | Succession planning | |
| Template or tool | 14 | 0 | 2026-04-28 | ||
| Conference or event | 5 | 0 | 2024-10-21 | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | 0 | 2024-11-20 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17Cost of not training managers blog
- 2026-09-17Cost of not training managers blog
- 2026-09-16Manager burnout ai coaching blog
- 2026-09-16Ai coaching plan blog
- 2026-09-16Manager burnout ai coaching blog
- 2026-09-02Disagree in writing blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page risely.me 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name performance management (15); 2 name the category the models place it in. 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 Risely
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
Risely is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Risely is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI-powered coaching platform for workplace skills. Merlin, your AI coach, delivers executive-level coaching for managers and individual contributors across 83 skills in 40 languages.
- For
- managers and individual contributors
- Price stated
- Individual $59/user/mo; Team $399/mo 5 users + $49/user/mo per additional; Enterprise Custom pricing; Enterprise pricing ranges from $700-$1,000/user/year depending on volume risely.me
- Starting price
- 59 risely.me
- Free plan or trial
- 14-day free trial — full access, no credit card required risely.me
- Customers named
- Micron TechnologyThe AES CorporationYour Pet SpaceBest Friends Animal SocietyTuolumne Me-Wuk Indian Health Center
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Risely's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: risely.me, risely.me/pricing, risely.me/product/ai-coach. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Risely'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 Risely, 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 Risely by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Risely 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 Risely, 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.