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 15 → 12 of 50
1 category · RankedSCORE
32Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative 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
0% in Mentoring software for small business buyers
Rank 20 of 77 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business13 of 54
0%19 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market20 of 77
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 SCORE 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% | 20 of 77 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Together at 28% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, SCORE held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Mentoring software · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 → 20 of 74
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentoring software | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 → 20 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 SCORE 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 SCORE 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative17 labels12not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 13 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.
“offering free, long-term mentoring, workshops, and templates. It's a great resource for small businesses and startups.” Mistral Small · Mentoring software · budget prompt · alternative
“SCORE | Free, confidential business advice from experienced, retired business leaders.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative
“SCORE is an excellent free alternative for small business mentoring” MiniMax M2.5 · Mentoring software · budget prompt · alternative
“SCORE (US business mentoring)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Mentoring software · negative 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.
“Great for external advice but limited for structured *internal* company programs.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Mentoring software · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SCORE, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SCORE was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SCORE, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SCORE 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 SCORE. 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 31 of the 32 answers that named SCORE and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
growthmentor.com23
adplist.org22
mentorcruise.com16
consumer.ftc.gov12
peoplemanagingpeople.com12
qooper.io12
g2.com11
softwareadvice.com10
togetherplatform.com10
capterra.com9
137 of the 137 domain citations in answers naming SCORE came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
score.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SCORE takes 0% of first choices and Together takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
score.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SCORE takes 0% of first choices and Together takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “mentoring platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “mentoring program software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 165,000 a month (“score”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 761,925 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 116,461 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 22,493 · 930 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 31,489
- Paid Google search
- 15 searches its ads show for, about 261 clicks and $1,825 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 20 of 77 in mentoring software
Segment leader
28%
Together
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 32 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 31 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 score.org
5,693
subdomains included
Content
465
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 425 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | ||
| News or press | 17 | 0 | 2026-06-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2026-03-06 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2026-03-17 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-15Stop working for your business build a business that pays you back news or press
- 2026-05-14Navigating transformational leadership in times of change for small business news or press
- 2026-04-232026 score client of the year winners news or press
- 2026-04-14Advanced programs for small businesses blog
- 2026-03-17Success stories case study
- 2026-03-17Press releases news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page score.org 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 SCORE
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
SCORE is its own company.ShowHide
The company
SCORE is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Free Business Mentoring, Workshops & Resources
- For
- small businesses
- Price stated
- free score.org
- Free plan or trial
- free expert mentoring, workshops, courses, resources, and free SCORE Mentor score.org
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What SCORE's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: score.org, score.org/pricing-cost-control. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 SCORE'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 SCORE, 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 SCORE by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SCORE 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 SCORE, 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.