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 99 → 108 of 108
Workday · 1 category · RankedWorkday Illuminate
68Judge labels
7First choices
25Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in HR AI assistants for enterprise buyers
Rank 92 of 142 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 38% of its 21 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday Illuminate →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business121 of 121
0%10 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market92 of 142
0%21 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise3 of 110
14%36 labels
accepted challenger
In hr ai assistants · 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 Workday Illuminate 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 92 of 142 | 38% | 21 | criticized challenger | =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, Workday Illuminate held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · HR AI assistants · by segment
Mid-market=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 110 → 107 of 124
Enterprise▲+14Since September 2026: 2% → 16%, +14 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
16%from 2% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 6 → 3 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR AI assistants | 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 110 → 92 of 142 |
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 Workday Illuminate 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 Workday Illuminate 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 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative22 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative68 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 11 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.
“A natural first choice for Workday customers who want help inside their existing system.” GPT-6 Luna · HR AI assistants · comparative prompt · first choice
“Workday AI provides native deep data access and payroll/HCM integration with inherited RBAC and native workflow triggers” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR AI assistants · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for existing enterprise Workday users who want native compliance and security.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR AI assistants · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you are already locked into an HCM like Workday: Stick with Workday AI” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR AI assistants · comparative 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.
“A closely watched class action against the HR management company Workday reached a milestone when the Northern District of California conditionally certified Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) claims” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR AI assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“Workday ⚠️ *Highest current risk* - Active major litigation: The *Mobley v. Workday* class-action lawsuit ... alleges its AI screening tools discriminate” Kimi K2 · HR AI assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“Workday is currently facing a class-action lawsuit (*Mobley v. Workday*) alleging that its AI hiring tools systematically filtered out Black applicants.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR AI assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid or be extremely cautious with: - Workday AI screening (until lawsuit resolves or they open the hood)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR AI assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Illuminate, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Illuminate was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Illuminate, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Illuminate 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 Workday Illuminate. 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 67 of the 68 answers that named Workday Illuminate and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
moveworks.com32
humand.co30
peoplemanagingpeople.com25
wonderchat.io25
resources.rework.com21
firsthr.app16
intervue.io13
reuters.com12
rippling.com12
teamspective.com12
198 of the 198 domain citations in answers naming Workday Illuminate came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Workday Illuminate stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Workday Illuminate stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“workday illuminate”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Workday's site (workday.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 92 of 142 in HR AI assistants
Segment leader
21%
MeBeBot
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 68 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 67 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.
Names read as Workday Illuminate
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Illuminate; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday 6Workday AI 4Workday (AI Recruiting Modules) 1Workday (AI screening/assistant modules) 1Workday (Workday Illuminate / Workday AI) 1Workday (specifically HiredScore & Automated Screening Features) 1Workday AI (Illuminate Agents) 1Workday AI (Suite Copilot) 1Workday AI / Workday Sana Self-Service Agent 1Workday Illuminate / Workday Assistant 1Workday Sana / Workday AI Agents 1
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Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- enhances the user experience, helping us create value and make better decisions
- For
- RRHH
- Customers named
- Signify
- Not stated on the pages read
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- where Workday Illuminate is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
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- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Workday Illuminate, 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;
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