Every category where a model named Time Doctor 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
Employee monitoring	Workforce planning and analytics	2%	9 of 75	23%	31	accepted challenger
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	113 of 114	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	73 of 86	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Performance management	Performance and talent management	0%	80 of 85	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Time Doctor yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Time Doctor across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	0	1	4
Mistral Small	0	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	2	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	2	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	1	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	0	1	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

Direct20 labels3

Paraphrase9 labels2

Comparative27 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained8 labels1

Negative19 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative91 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 7 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.

“ActivTrak and Time Doctor being the most cited for B2B growth companies” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee monitoring · direct prompt · first choice

“Time Doctor is a close second, especially for companies needing integrated time tracking and payroll features” Mistral Small · Employee monitoring · direct prompt · alternative

“Time Doctor if your team needs detailed reports on productivity, goals, and project timelines” Perplexity Sonar · Employee monitoring · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for B2B Professional Services & Client Billing (Proof of Work) #### Winner: Time Doctor” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee monitoring · 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.

“Avoid Intrusive "Bossware" and Desktop Surveillance ... (e.g., *Time Doctor*, *Hubstaff*, *We360.ai*)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative

“ActivTrak, Teramind, Time Doctor, and similar "productivity tracking" platforms.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative

“Screenshots, keystroke logging, video capture, website/app monitoring” Kimi K2 · Employee monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“Tools to avoid: ActivTricks, Hubstaff, Time Doctor, Teramind.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Time Doctor, over the 91 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Time Doctor was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Hubstaff76 of 9115Compare →

ActivTrak63 of 9120Compare →

Teramind60 of 9114Compare →

Insightful44 of 916Compare →

DeskTime25 of 913Compare →

Apploye18 of 914Compare →

Veriato17 of 912Not among the top eight

Monitask16 of 912Not among the top eight

Clockify14 of 913Not among the top eight

CurrentWare14 of 910Not 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 Time Doctor. 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 85 of the 91 answers that named Time Doctor and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

currentware.com50

forbes.com46

insightful.io46

hubstaff.com38

employee-monitoring.net35

peoplemanagingpeople.com34

teramind.co34

learn.g2.com33

worktime.com32

traqq.com26

374 of the 374 domain citations in answers naming Time Doctor came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-monitoring-software40

currentware.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software35

learn.g2.com/best-employee-monitoring-software31

traqq.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software25

fitsmallbusiness.com/employee-monitoring-software22

tmetric.com/best-software/best-employee-monitoring-software22

insightful.io/blog/employee-activity-monitoring-tools-compared21

zdnet.com/article/best-employee-monitoring-software20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

timedoctor.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Time Doctor takes 2% of first choices and ActivTrak takes 33%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “employee monitoring tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “employee monitoring tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 4,400 a month (“time doctor”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2,638 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 19,456 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 14,190 · 58 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 14,268
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

44 ads · 29 text, 8 video, 7 image · 21 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2024, as Mystaff.com, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 29 in the year, 15 before. 7 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 9 of 75 in employee monitoring

Segment leader

33%

ActivTrak

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 91 answers
Its own site cited: in 85 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on timedoctor.com

762

subdomains included

Content

162

counted in the table below

Documentation

392

Product · Integration

19 · 17

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	71	6	2026-09-21
Webinar or virtual event	27	0	2025-08-08
Case study	25	0	2026-01-28
Podcast or video	21	0	2024-04-12
Comparison	8	0	2026-05-05
Conference or event	3	0	2026-05-11
News or press	3	0	2026-04-08
Template or tool	2	0	2026-06-30
Glossary or explainer	2	0	2025-11-27

Most recent

2026-09-21Performance management ai what stays human blog
2026-09-07Remote friendly is not enough what remote excellent looks like blog
2026-08-24Remote work second wave performance not location blog
2026-07-15Time doctor classic migration blog
2026-07-13Rippling xero au payroll integrations blog
2026-07-01Time doctor summer 2026 awards blog

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Every page timedoctor.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 Time Doctor

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Time Doctor; a claim can dispute any of them.

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Follow Time Doctor

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

Time Doctor is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Workforce visibility for distributed teams
timedoctor.com
For: leaders who run distributed teams
timedoctor.com
Price stated: Basic: $6.67 per user / month billed annually or $8 month-to-month; Standard: $11.67 per user / month billed annually or $14 month-to-month; Premium: $16.70 per user / month billed annually or $20.00 month-to-month; Enterprise: Custom plan timedoctor.com/pricing
Starting price: 6.67 timedoctor.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Try it free timedoctor.com
Integrations claimed: 60 timedoctor.com
Certifications: ISO 27001SOC 2 Type 2GDPRHIPAASOC2 CertifiedISO 27001 CertifiedSOC 2
Customers named: Dentistry SupportPhoenix Virtual SolutionsSmartBuyGlasses
Not stated on the pages read: Hosting

What Time Doctor's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: timedoctor.com, timedoctor.com/pricing, trust.timedoctor.com, timedoctor.com/features/payroll, timedoctor.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Time Doctor'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 Time Doctor, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Time Doctor by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Time Doctor 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 Time Doctor, 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.