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 106 → 131 of 132
2 categories · RankedTorch
68Judge labels
6First choices
22Negative 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
11% in Coaching platforms for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 128 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
4 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 20 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Torch →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business143 of 144
0%16 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market3 of 128
11%20 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise12 of 55
0%31 labels
accepted challenger
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 Torch 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coaching platforms | Learning and development | 11% | 3 of 128 | 15% | 20 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Mentoring software | Learning and development | 0% | 38 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Together at 28% | =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, Torch held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Coaching platforms · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 4 → 5 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 8 → 12 of 50
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coaching platforms | 7% | 6% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 3 of 128 |
| Mentoring software | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 38 of 77 |
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 Torch 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 Torch 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 0 | 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
Direct12 labels4
Paraphrase12 labels2
Comparative15 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative68 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.
“"Torch — Best for Leadership Development in Mid-Market Companies"... Choose Torch if you want a leadership / manager-to-executive pipeline with curated coaches” Muse Glimmer 30B · Coaching platforms · direct prompt · first choice
“The best employee coaching platforms for a mid-market B2B company include Torch, Growthspace, Lattice, and Motivosity.” Llama 4 Maverick · Coaching platforms · direct prompt · first choice
“Torch is a leadership coaching and alignment platform built for mid-market and enterprise talent teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Coaching platforms · direct prompt · first choice
“Torch is the named best fit for 500–5,000 employee companies” Muse Glimmer 30B · Coaching platforms · paraphrase 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.
“Enterprise platforms to avoid (for tight budgets): BetterUp, CoachHub, Torch, and EZRA” MiniMax M2.5 · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · hard negative
“Many of these platforms have incredibly strict non-compete clauses.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Coaching platforms · negative prompt · soft negative
“are quote-based and priced for mid-market / enterprise populations” Muse Glimmer 30B · Coaching platforms · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Torch, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Torch was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Torch, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Torch 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 Torch. 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 66 of the 68 answers that named Torch and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
boon-health.com38
hr-ai-index.com34
coachello.ai31
torch.ioYour site28
easygenerator.com27
exec.com26
zendikt.com23
us.fitgap.com21
risely.me20
simply.coach17
237 of the 265 domain citations in answers naming Torch came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
torch.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Torch takes 11% of first choices and Growthspace takes 20%.ShowHide
Search and answers
torch.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Torch takes 11% of first choices and Growthspace takes 20%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “coaching platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “employee coaching platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“torch”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 54,246 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 4,013 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,446 · 23 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,297
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
11%
rank 3 of 128 in coaching platforms
Segment leader
20%
Growthspace
- First choices
- 6 across its categories
- Named in
- 68 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 66 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on torch.io
843
subdomains included
Content
396
counted in the table below
Documentation
7
Product · Integration
15 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 250 | 3 | 2026-08-27 | Succession planning, Performance management | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 46 | 0 | 2025-11-07 | ||
| Report or ebook | 38 | 0 | 2025-01-17 | Succession planning | |
| News or press | 21 | 0 | 2025-12-11 | ||
| Conference or event | 17 | 0 | 2025-10-16 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | 1 | 2026-08-27 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | 1 | 2026-07-08 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2025-01-09 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-27Culture eats strategy for breakfast blog
- 2026-08-27How to align leaders to strategy blog
- 2026-08-27What is coaching at scale glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-27Why strategy execution fails at the leadership layer blog
- 2026-07-08Ai coaching vs human coaching comparison
- 2026-05-21What is leadership alignment glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page torch.io 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.
Follow Torch
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
Torch is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Torch is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Leadership coaching and alignment platform
- For
- mid-market and enterprise companies
- Certifications
- ICF credentialsEU GDPRISO 27701SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001
- Customers named
- LinkedInRedditTripadvisorAirbnbFICOTwitchZendeskCrossCountry Consulting
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Torch's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: torch.io, trust.torch.io, torch.io/product, torch.io/customer-stories. 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 Torch'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 Torch, 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 Torch by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Torch 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 Torch, 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 Torch 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 Torch is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideTorch is among the products AI models recommend first in Coaching platforms 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.