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 68 → 87 of 89
2 categories · RankedStaffbase
200Judge labels
28First choices
48Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
35% in Frontline employee apps for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 106 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 32 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Staffbase →By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
Small business88 of 90
0%22 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 106
4%32 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise1 of 91
35%50 labels
endorsed leader
In frontline employee apps · 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 Staffbase 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 4% | 4 of 106 | 19% | 32 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal communications and intranet | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 12 of 86 | 8% | 26 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Staffbase held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Frontline employee apps · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 5 → 3 of 100
Enterprise▲+4Since September 2026: 32% → 36%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
36%from 32% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 82, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontline employee apps | 2% | 5% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 4 of 106 |
| Internal communications | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 17 → 12 of 86 |
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 Staffbase 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 Staffbase 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
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
Direct41 labels10
Paraphrase24 labels12
Comparative55 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels5
Scale-constrained23 labels1
Negative34 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative200 labels in all, every segment counted; 28 of the 34 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.
“Choose Blink or Staffbase if your main problem is reaching deskless workers quickly.” Perplexity Sonar · Frontline employee apps · comparative prompt · first choice
“the best internal communications platform for a mid-sized B2B company would be Staffbase” Llama 4 Maverick · Internal communications · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose MangoApps or Staffbase if you have a large percentage of frontline workers” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Internal communications · comparative prompt · first choice
“my default pick would be Staffbase ... Best overall: Staffbase” GPT-5.4 mini · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice
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.
“API limitations; frequent user management issues reported” Kimi K2 · Internal communications · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Staffbase and Workvivo on a tight budget” GPT-5.4 mini · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · hard negative
“Staffbase due to being designed for mid-market and enterprise and not suitable for small businesses” Llama 4 Maverick · Frontline employee apps · negative prompt · soft negative
“No enterprise-grade frontline platforms like Blink, Staffbase, Workvivo, Simpplr offer a free tier” Muse Glimmer 30B · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Staffbase, over the 200 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Staffbase was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Staffbase, over the 200 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Staffbase 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 Staffbase. 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 197 of the 200 answers that named Staffbase and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
staffbase.comYour site113
mangoapps.com111
joinblink.com95
oak.com90
workvivo.com76
guideflow.com74
agilityportal.io61
g2.com60
simpplr.com59
lumapps.com56
682 of the 795 domain citations in answers naming Staffbase came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
staffbase.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Staffbase takes 4% of first choices and Connecteam takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
staffbase.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Staffbase takes 4% of first choices and Connecteam takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “frontline apps”
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not in the top ten
Position for “frontline employee communication app”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“staffbase”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 46 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 36,256 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,375 · 407 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,685
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 4 of 106 in frontline employee apps
Segment leader
49%
Connecteam
- First choices
- 28 across its categories
- Named in
- 200 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 197 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 staffbase.com
837
subdomains included
Content
655
counted in the table below
Documentation
6
Product · Integration
1 · 4
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 330 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | Employee onboarding, Internal communications | |
| News or press | 133 | 4 | 2026-09-08 | ||
| Podcast or video | 87 | 0 | 2025-04-03 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 52 | 0 | 2023-03-15 | ||
| Case study | 28 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 17 | 2 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2026-02-20 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2024-06-12 | Employee onboarding | |
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2025-01-03 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Ai assistant for frontline teams blog
- 2026-09-22Intranet microsoft 365 integration blog
- 2026-09-17Intranet integrations blog
- 2026-09-16Closing the ai gap blog
- 2026-09-08How ai is changing communication at work news or press
- 2026-09-08Spotlight series eva spatz news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page staffbase.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 Staffbase
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Staffbase; a claim can dispute any of them.
Staffbase & Firstup 1
Follow Staffbase
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The company
Staffbase is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Staffbase is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI-Native Intranet and Employee Experience Platform
- For
- the hardest-to-reach employees
- Price stated
- No generic price list staffbase.com/pricing
- Customers named
- Alaska AirlinesTeam CowabungaBethany Children’s Health CenterMister Car WashBrussels AirlinesBellway HomesCladtekTabcorp
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Staffbase's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: staffbase.com, staffbase.com/pricing, trust.staffbase.com, staffbase.com/platform, staffbase.com/customers. 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 Staffbase'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 Staffbase, 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 Staffbase by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Staffbase 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 Staffbase, 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.