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 120 → 81 of 139
3 categories · RankedTalentGuard
63Judge labels
20First choices
2Negative labels
13 / 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
18% in Internal talent marketpl for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 127 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 14 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of TalentGuard →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business82 of 144
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market2 of 127
13%14 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise86 of 99
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In skills intelligence · 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 TalentGuard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 13% | 2 of 127 | 0% | 14 | accepted challenger | ▼−9Since September 2026: 19% → 10%, −9 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 6% | 4 of 102 | 0% | 17 | accepted challenger | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 8%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 46 of 90 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pin at 27% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, TalentGuard held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Skills intelligence · by segment
Mid-market▼−9Since September 2026: 19% → 10%, −9 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 19% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 1 → 3 of 117
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skills intelligence | 19% | 10% | ▼−9Since September 2026: 19% → 10%, −9 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 → 2 of 127 |
| Internal talent marketpl | 4% | 8% | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 8%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 4 of 102 |
| Talent intelligence | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 46 of 90, 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 TalentGuard 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 TalentGuard 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct19 labels8
Paraphrase15 labels8
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labels3
Scale-constrained7 labels1
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative63 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 20 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.
“TalentGuard - Offers comprehensive talent mobility with skills visibility... Good balance of features and affordability for small to mid-sized businesses.” MiniMax M2.5 · Internal talent marketpl · budget prompt · first choice
“TalentGuard is best suited for mid-market companies that need structured competency frameworks and career pathing without the enterprise complexity” Muse Glimmer 30B · Skills intelligence · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“TalentGuard is the AI-model-recommended first choice for mid-market skills intelligence / taxonomy and inference” Muse Glimmer 30B · Skills intelligence · direct prompt · first choice
“the strongest fit in the results is TalentGuard because it is explicitly positioned as budget-conscious” Perplexity Sonar · Internal talent marketpl · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as TalentGuard, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TalentGuard was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as TalentGuard, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TalentGuard 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 TalentGuard. 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 62 of the 63 answers that named TalentGuard and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
talentguard.comYour site38
engagedly.com28
peoplemanagingpeople.com27
fuel50.com24
gartner.com24
firsthr.app23
hr-ai-index.com23
itechguides.com20
sprad.io19
hrtechsaas.com18
206 of the 244 domain citations in answers naming TalentGuard came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
talentguard.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, TalentGuard takes 13% of first choices and Skills Base takes 18%.ShowHide
Search and answers
talentguard.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, TalentGuard takes 13% of first choices and Skills Base takes 18%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “skills platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “skills intelligence platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“talentguard”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 27,310 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,147 · 363 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,244
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
13%
rank 2 of 127 in skills intelligence
Segment leader
18%
Skills Base
- First choices
- 20 across its categories
- Named in
- 63 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 62 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 talentguard.com
600
subdomains included
Content
377
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
17 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 283 | 12 | 2026-09-22 | Performance management, Succession planning | |
| News or press | 73 | undated | Performance management, Succession planning | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 0 | 2023-08-21 | ||
| Case study | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 2 | 0 | 2022-06-17 | Succession planning | |
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22The talent experience layer your stack is missing blog
- 2026-09-15You should not need a consultant to run succession planning blog
- 2026-09-08Hris talent management missing layer blog
- 2026-08-31The best career move may not be a promotion blog
- 2026-08-25Internal talent mobility is your retention problem blog
- 2026-08-18A career conversation is not a career path blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page talentguard.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name performance management (26); 1 name its categories the models place it in. 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 TalentGuard
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
TalentGuard is its own company.ShowHide
The company
TalentGuard is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The only governance-first platform that transforms unverified skills data into defensible workforce decisions.
- For
- HR and business leaders
- Free plan or trial
- Start free talentguard.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Certified
- Customers named
- NHMBversion 1AccruentCortevaiVentureVonachenVonachen GroupNew Hampshire Mutual Bank
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, hosting
What TalentGuard's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: talentguard.com, talentguard.com/platform, talentguard.com/case-studies, talentguard.com/platform/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 TalentGuard'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 TalentGuard, 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 TalentGuard by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where TalentGuard 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 TalentGuard, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where TalentGuard is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where TalentGuard is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideTalentGuard is among the products AI models recommend first in Skills intelligence this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.