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Sounding Board

20Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative 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 Coaching platforms for enterprise buyers
Rank 96 of 128 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 33% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Sounding Board 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Coaching platformsLearning and development0%96 of 12833%3under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 20%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Sounding Board held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Coaching platforms · by segment

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 85 → 82 of 132
Mid-market=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 39 → 89 of 117
Enterprise=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 13 → 14 of 50

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Coaching platforms0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 39 → 96 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 Sounding Board across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 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.

“custom-priced platforms like Sounding Board and Growthspace are typically better fits” 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.

“What to Avoid ... Sounding Board | Leadership-cohort focused; better for senior exec development” Kimi K2 · Coaching platforms · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sounding Board, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sounding Board was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BetterUp19 of 2010Not among the top eight
CoachHub19 of 204Not among the top eight
EZRA17 of 201Not among the top eight
Torch14 of 201Not among the top eight
Coachello8 of 201Not among the top eight
Boon Health7 of 201Not among the top eight
Exec7 of 200Not among the top eight
Growthspace6 of 200Not among the top eight
Valence6 of 200Not among the top eight
Risely4 of 200Not 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 Sounding Board. 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 19 of the 20 answers that named Sounding Board and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

coachello.ai13
boon-health.com12
easygenerator.com10
torch.io10
exec.com9
risely.me6
simply.coach6
thinkific.com6
us.fitgap.com6
paperbell.com5

No domain is on file for Sounding Board, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Sounding Board stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
450,000 a month (“sounding board”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
838 a month
Its own site
No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 96 of 128 in coaching platforms
Segment leader
20%
Growthspace
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
20 answers
Its own site cited
No site on file to match

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.

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  • 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;
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