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 38 → 32 of 54
9 categories · RankedUKG Ready
77Judge labels
13First choices
10Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
9Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Time and attendance for mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
4 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 16 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of UKG Ready →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business36 of 57
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market9 of 86
8%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 87
7%15 labels
accepted challenger
In time and attendance · 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 UKG Ready 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 8% | 9 of 86 | 6% | 16 | accepted challenger | ▼−9Since September 2026: 15% → 7%, −9 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 6% | 5 of 78 | 0% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | ▼−10Since September 2026: 15% → 5%, −10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 19 of 66 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 24 of 58 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 38 of 108 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 37% | |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 58 of 97 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 96 of 108 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 52 of 95 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | =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% | 53 of 85 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, UKG Ready held within the floor in all nine categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Time and attendance · by segment
Mid-market▼−9Since September 2026: 15% → 7%, −9 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 15% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 1 → 10 of 77
Enterprise▼−11Since September 2026: 20% → 8%, −11 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 20% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 → 3 of 76
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce management sui | 15% | 5% | ▼−10Since September 2026: 15% → 5%, −10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 5 of 78 |
| Time and attendance | 15% | 7% | ▼−9Since September 2026: 15% → 7%, −9 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 → 9 of 86 |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | 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 37 → 19 of 66 |
| Payroll 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 25 → 24 of 58 |
| Workforce scheduling | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 38 of 108, unchanged |
| HR compliance | 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 65 → 58 of 97 |
| HR help desk | 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 60 → 96 of 108 |
| Leave | 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 89 → 52 of 95 |
| Performance management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 85, 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 UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 labels6
Paraphrase15 labels5
Comparative17 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained5 labels1
Negative17 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative77 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 15 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.
“Look for platforms that have a dedicated "mid-market" sweet spot or a scalable tier (like UKG Ready or Rippling)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce management sui · scale prompt · first choice
“Top Pick: UKG Ready ... is the strongest overall choice because it was purpose-built for your segment” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Time and attendance · direct prompt · first choice
“Start with Paylocity or UKG Ready if you want integrated HR/payroll for efficiency.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Time and attendance · direct prompt · first choice
“the safest default choice is usually UKG Ready or ADP Workforce Now” GPT-5.4 mini · Time and attendance · 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.
“frequent complaints about poor app performance, including difficulties logging in, frequent crashes and slow loading times” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HRIS and HCM platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“consistently receive complaints about: Poor customer service across the board” MiniMax M2.5 · HR help desk · negative prompt · soft negative
“What looks affordable at first can become surprisingly expensive” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as UKG Ready, over the 77 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and UKG Ready was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as UKG Ready, over the 77 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready. 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 73 of the 77 answers that named UKG Ready and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
learn.g2.com31
g2.com28
forbes.com22
peoplemanagingpeople.com21
rippling.com21
guideflow.com19
adp.com18
ukg.comYour site17
paycor.com16
paylocity.com15
191 of the 208 domain citations in answers naming UKG Ready came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
ukg.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, UKG Ready takes 8% of first choices and Clockify takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
ukg.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, UKG Ready takes 8% of first choices and Clockify takes 12%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “time and attendance system”
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not in the top ten
Position for “time and attendance systems”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“ukg ready”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 215 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 310,168 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 10,781 · 1,883 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,448
- Paid Google search
- 23 searches its ads show for, about 125 clicks and $11,996 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 9 of 86 in time and attendance
Segment leader
12%
Clockify
- First choices
- 13 across its categories
- Named in
- 77 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 73 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 ukg.com
2,801
subdomains included
Content
2,136
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
73 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,125 | undated | Workforce planning, Pay equity | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 372 | undated | Workforce management sui, Payroll software | ||
| News or press | 260 | undated | Interview scheduling | ||
| Report or ebook | 193 | undated | Workforce planning, Earned wage access | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 137 | undated | Workforce planning, Workforce scheduling | ||
| Template or tool | 16 | undated | Payroll software | ||
| Comparison | 11 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 10 | undated | |||
| Case study | 8 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | undated |
Events in person
Upcoming
- October 19, 2026 to October 22, 2026HR Tech 2026: Make people decisions at the speed of workMandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, US · exhibits
- October 20, 2026Connecting People Decisions to Business Outcomes in Real Timeplace not stated · speaks
- October 22, 2026How AI Agents Are Changing HCM Across Hiring, Employee Enablement, and PayDemo Theater #1 · speaks
As the event pages on ukg.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ukg.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 UKG Ready
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as UKG Ready; a claim can dispute any of them.
UKG Ready (formerly Kronos) 3Kronos Workforce Ready (via resellers for under-100-employee companies) 1UKG Ready (or UKG Pro) 1UKG Ready / UKG Pro Workforce Management 1
Follow UKG Ready
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
UKG Ready is its own company.ShowHide
The company
UKG Ready is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- all-in-one HR and payroll suite
- Customers named
- YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What UKG Ready's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ukg.com, ukg.com/products/payroll, ukg.com/customers, ukg.com/company/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for UKG Ready by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where UKG Ready 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 UKG Ready, 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.