Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 6% → 4%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 → 9 of 67
3 categories · RankedSmall Improvements
93Judge labels
12First choices
7Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in 360 feedback for small business buyers
Rank 9 of 85 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Small Improvements →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 67
4%21 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market9 of 85
2%11 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In performance management · 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 Small Improvements 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 2% | 9 of 85 | 0% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 7% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 0% | 16 of 73 | 9% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Coaching platforms | Learning and development | 0% | 65 of 128 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 20% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Small Improvements held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Performance management · by segment
Mid-market▼−4Since September 2026: 7% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 9 of 76
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360 feedback | 5% | 0% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 16 of 73 |
| Performance management | 7% | 2% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 7% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 9 of 85 |
| Coaching platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 65 of 128, unchanged |
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 Small Improvements 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 Small Improvements 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 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct11 labels4
Paraphrase10 labels4
Comparative20 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained32 labels4
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative12 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 18 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.
“Small Improvements at $3/user/month offers the best value for money.” MiniMax M2.5 · Performance management · budget prompt · first choice
“Small Improvements ($3/user/month) or Primalogik ($3–$6/user/month) offer solid features with predictable, low pricing.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 360 feedback · budget prompt · alternative
“Choose Small Improvements if you have 20+ staff and want the lowest possible per-head cost.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Performance management · budget prompt · alternative
“For larger small businesses (20+ employees), Small Improvements provides excellent value” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Performance management · budget 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.
“Some users note limited customization options, particularly in tracking and reviewer management” Mistral Small · 360 feedback · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Small Improvements, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Small Improvements was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Small Improvements, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Small Improvements 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 Small Improvements. 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 92 of the 93 answers that named Small Improvements and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
workhuman.com67
effy.ai54
betterworks.com51
peoplemanagingpeople.com47
feedbackpulse.com46
firsthr.app46
teamflect.com43
capterra.com33
forbes.com31
charliehr.com28
446 of the 446 domain citations in answers naming Small Improvements came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
small-improvements.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Small Improvements takes 2% of first choices and Lattice takes 43%.ShowHide
Search and answers
small-improvements.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Small Improvements takes 2% of first choices and Lattice takes 43%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “performance management software”
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not in the top ten
Position for “performance management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000 a month (“small improvements”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 137 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 43,657 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,361 · 184 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,212
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 9 of 85 in performance management
Segment leader
43%
Lattice
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 93 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 92 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 small-improvements.com
435
subdomains included
Content
115
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
15 · 12
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 89 | 1 | 2026-07-31 | Performance management, 360 feedback | |
| Case study | 13 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 10 | 0 | 2025-09-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2024-11-25 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-07-31The hidden cost of running hr on spreadsheets blog
- 2026-06-25Should you create your own hr tool blog
- 2026-06-10Is small improvements right for you an honest answer blog
- 2026-06-05The 4 cs of management a monthly rhythm to fix your broken 11s blog
- 2025-09-09Creating and editing vs updating objectives comparison
- 2025-09-04From 360 feedback to clear objectives turning insights into action blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page small-improvements.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.
Names read as Small Improvements
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Small Improvements; a claim can dispute any of them.
FeedbackPulse/Small Improvements 1
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The company
Small Improvements is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Small Improvements is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Performance review software that helps employees grow and succeed. Highly configurable and easy to launch.
- For
- For companies between 50 and 500 staff; optimized for SMB and growing teams; HR teams.
- Price stated
- Launch: $3 per user/month, billed annually; Grow: $6 per user/month, billed annually; Elevate: $9 per user/month, billed annually. small-improvements.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $3 a month, per user small-improvements.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- start your free trial small-improvements.com
- Customers named
- SimprintsGoodpatchInteractive StrategiesBlue BottleDribbbleNW CenterTomorrow FarmsAthena
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Small Improvements's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: small-improvements.com, small-improvements.com/pricing, trust.small-improvements.com, small-improvements.com/features, small-improvements.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Small Improvements by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Small Improvements 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 Small Improvements, 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.