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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Sage

2Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

2 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sage was named 2 times in Applicant tracking syste and 1 other category, where Greenhouse led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market60 of 65

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In applicant tracking syste · 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 Sage 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
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	0%	60 of 65	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 40%
Global payroll and employer of record	Core HR and payroll	0%	47 of 61	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 30%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sage yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Sage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“a glaring absence of positive feedback” Muse Glimmer 30B · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sage, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ADP2 of 20Not among the top eight

Deel1 of 21Not among the top eight

Remote1 of 21Not among the top eight

Bond Adapt1 of 20Not among the top eight

Dayforce1 of 20Not among the top eight

G-P1 of 20Not among the top eight

Hire with Columbus1 of 20Not among the top eight

Jobvite1 of 20Not among the top eight

Kenea/BrassRing1 of 20Not among the top eight

Multiplier1 of 20Not 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 Sage. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Sage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com2

g2.com2

acciyo.com1

ai.vixra.org1

appsruntheworld.com1

asanify.com1

asymbl.com1

capterra.co.uk1

cio.com1

collegerecruiter.com1

Twelve of the twelve domain citations in answers naming Sage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

acciyo.com/employer-of-record-eor-platforms-the-ultimate-guide-to-global-hiring-and-compli1

ai.vixra.org/pdf/2512.0046v1.pdf1

appsruntheworld.com/top-10-hcm-software-vendors-in-payroll-market-segment1

asanify.com/blog/employer-of-record/eor-companies1

asymbl.com/blog/why-your-ats-cant-keep-up-with-20251

capterra.co.uk/reviews/1040680/infinite-talent1

cio.com/article/240176/why-your-ats-may-be-killing-your-recruiting-efforts.html1

collegerecruiter.com/blog/2025/04/01/why-you-didnt-hear-back-how-applicant-tracking-system1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sage.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sage takes 0% of first choices and Greenhouse takes 40%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “applicant tracking system”

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not in the top ten

Position for “applicant tracking systems”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 246,000 a month (“sage”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 90,599 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,737,127 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 73,487 · 4,719 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 36,428
Paid Google search: 125 searches its ads show for, about 2,544 clicks and $114,671 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

78+ ads · 78 text · 78 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2023, as Sage Software, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 70 in the year, 8 before. 42 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 60 of 65 in applicant tracking syste

Segment leader

40%

Greenhouse

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 2 answers
Its own site cited: in 2 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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Addresses on sage.com

354

subdomains included

Content

246

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

13 · 11

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	86	undated	HRIS and HCM platforms, Payroll software
News or press	72	undated	Background screening, Performance management
Report or ebook	48	undated	Employee onboarding, Succession planning
Case study	22	undated
Conference or event	7	undated
Comparison	7	undated
Webinar or virtual event	3	undated
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

Events in person

Last twelve months

November 10, 2025 to November 12, 2025Trimble Dimensions User ConferenceLas Vegas, United States · exhibited
October 14, 2025 to October 16, 2025Procore GroundbreakHouston, United States · exhibited

As the event pages on sage.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sage.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 Sage

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

Sage is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Sage Business Management Software and Solutions
sage.com
For: finance teams
sage.com
Price stated: Request pricing sage.com
Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001ISO 27001
Customers named: HigginbothamCambio CommunitiesWorksightedOperation HopeLPGAByler HoldingsOrion CompaniesAgemark Senior Living
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Sage's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: sage.com, trust.sage.com. 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 Sage'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 Sage, 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 Sage by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sage 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 Sage, 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.