Small business▼−13Since September 2026: 31% → 17%, −13 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 31% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 0 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 95
1 category · RankedSimpleVMS
26Judge labels
12First choices
0Negative 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
17% in Contingent workforce man for small business buyers
Rank 9 of 121 in the mid-market standing
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 101
17%17 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market9 of 121
5%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In contingent workforce man · 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 SimpleVMS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contingent workforce management | Workforce planning and analytics | 5% | 9 of 121 | 0% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by VectorVMS at 16% | ▼−31Since September 2026: 35% → 4%, −31 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, SimpleVMS moved past the floor in its one category, Contingent workforce man, −31 points to 4%.
Best category · Contingent workforce man · by segment
Mid-market▼−31Since September 2026: 35% → 4%, −31 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 35% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 18 pointsRank 1 → 9 of 111
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contingent workforce man | 35% | 4% | ▼−31Since September 2026: 35% → 4%, −31 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 1 → 9 of 121 |
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 SimpleVMS 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 SimpleVMS 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct9 labels6
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative5 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels6
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 label1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 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.
“SimplifyVMS / SimpleVMS is the most cited mid-market pick in 2026 rankings.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Contingent workforce man · direct prompt · first choice
“SimpleVMS stands out for companies with truly limited budgets” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with SimpleVMS ... Best Overall Value” Kimi K2 · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · first choice
“Budget-friendly alternatives ... Basic but effective for small-to-mid programs” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contingent workforce man · 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 SimpleVMS, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SimpleVMS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SimpleVMS, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SimpleVMS 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 SimpleVMS. 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 26 of the 26 answers that named SimpleVMS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
hrtechsaas.com18
g2.com12
capterra.com11
gitnux.org10
zipdo.co10
peoplemanagingpeople.com9
talentdesk.io9
rfp.wiki8
worldmetrics.org8
conexisvmssoftware.com7
102 of the 102 domain citations in answers naming SimpleVMS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
simplevms.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SimpleVMS takes 5% of first choices and VectorVMS takes 16%.ShowHide
Search and answers
simplevms.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SimpleVMS takes 5% of first choices and VectorVMS takes 16%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “contingent workforce platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “vendor management system for contingent workers”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,900 a month (“simplevms”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,199 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 145 · 11 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 258
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 9 of 121 in contingent workforce man
Segment leader
16%
VectorVMS
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 26 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 26 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 simplevms.com
283
subdomains included
Content
61
counted in the table below
Documentation
100
Product · Integration
1 · 2
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 58 | 15 | 2026-09-28 | Contingent workforce man | |
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2023-11-27 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2022-10-28 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Turn q4 planning into your next growth opportunity blog
- 2026-09-22Staffing made simple episode 21 blog
- 2026-09-22What separates growing staffing agencies from stalled ones in 2026 blog
- 2026-08-27Staffing made simple episode 20 blog
- 2026-08-27How to standardize your staffing operation blog
- 2026-08-26Staffing doesnt have an advice problem anymore blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page simplevms.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as SimpleVMS
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SimpleVMS; a claim can dispute any of them.
SimplifyVMS / SimpleVMS 1
Follow SimpleVMS
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
SimpleVMS is its own company.ShowHide
The company
SimpleVMS is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Smarter Way to Manage Your Contingent Workforce
- For
- HR, procurement, and workforce managers
- Price stated
- at zero cost to you thanks to our vendor-funded model simplevms.com
- Free plan or trial
- Pilot the system risk-free before full full rollout simplevms.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 compliant
- Customers named
- American GreetingsUltaFreudenberg Household Products, LP
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What SimpleVMS's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: simplevms.com, simplevms.com/tag/compliance, simplevms.com/features, simplevms.com/integrations. 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 SimpleVMS'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 SimpleVMS, 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 SimpleVMS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SimpleVMS 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 SimpleVMS, 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.