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Entity management for enterprise buyers

Asked as “legal entity management software”, and as “corporate governance and entity management tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
39%
Contested · Athennian 20%
39Diligent Entities20Athennian11CSC Entity Management30others

39% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Diligent Entities39%15%46endorsed leader
02Athennian20%8%37accepted challenger
03CSC Entity Management11%18%34accepted challenger
04Computershare GEMS2%21%29accepted challenger
05Wolters Kluwer Legisway2%8%13accepted challenger
06EntityKeeper2%36%14criticized challenger
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08CT Corporation Entity Management0%10%10accepted challenger
07MinuteBox0%9%11accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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01Diligent Entities39%
02Athennian20%
03CSC Entity Management11%
04Computershare GEMS2%
05Wolters Kluwer Legisway2%
06EntityKeeper2%
07MinuteBox0%
08CT Corporation Entity Management0%

What they warned about

Six of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
CSC Entity Management
18%
6 of 34 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“large enterprises should be cautious about or avoid the following types of entity management tools: 1. Heavy Corporate Services Firms (e.g., CSC Global, Intertrust, Computershare)” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Computershare GEMS
21%
6 of 29 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Heavy Corporate Services Firms (e.g., CSC Global, Intertrust, Computershare) ... overly complex and expensive for most large enterprises” Mistral Small, negative prompt
EntityKeeper
36%
5 of 14 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Legacy/Standalone Entity Databases (e.g., Basic Spreadsheets or Early CRMs like Generic "EntityKeeper" for Scale-Up Beyond Small Portfolios)” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Microsoft Excel
100%
4 of 4 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Large enterprises should strongly avoid relying on spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, or manual processes for entity management.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

66 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1065 links across 200 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Worldmetrics33 answers · 81 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Diligent33 answers · 64 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Coverpin32 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Athennian25 answers · 45 citations · 10 models
24 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
23 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Discern22 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
21 answers · 35 citations · 8 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
vendor site · MinuteBox19 answers · 34 citations · 8 models
19 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
vendor site · GetApp18 answers · 23 citations · 10 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best legal entity management software”, “entity management tools”, “legal entity management software”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Diligent diligent.com
Diligent Entities 39%, Diligent Boards 2%, Diligent One Platform 0%
41%272165,0006,449317,551 company$2871203
Athennian athennian.com20%12939086,31931
CSC cscglobal.com
CSC Entity Management 11%
11%921102100,643 company$72492
Lextree lextree.ai7%187012
LegalX legalxindia.com4%880375
Computershare computershare.com
Computershare GEMS 2%
2%25900416,475 company19
Wolters Kluwer wolterskluwer.com
Wolters Kluwer Legisway 2%, CT Corporation Entity Management 0%
2%1833,1001,3292,373,906 company$15,481281
EnGlobe2%48055
EntityKeeper entitykeeper.com2%919006175
Commenda commenda.io2%703905569,684$5,2240

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 18 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (athennian.com, diligent.com, g2.com, minutebox.com). The first result for “best legal entity management software” is wolterskluwer.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best legal entity management software for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which corporate governance and entity management tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade entity management tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best legal entity management software for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a legal entity management software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which entity management tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Diligent Entities
One alternativeCT Corporation Entity Management
Diligent Entities, Nasdaq Governance ServicesChanged
Two alternativesComputershare GEMS, Equinix
Diligent Entities
Three alternativesAthennian, Commenda, DiliTrust Entity Management
against: CSC Entity Management
Athennian, Diligent Entities
One alternativeMinuteBox
no first choiceagainst: Microsoft Excel
GPT-5.4 miniDiligent Entities
Two alternativesCT Corporation Entity Management, Wolters Kluwer Legisway
Diligent EntitiesHeld
One alternativeDiligent Boards
no first choiceWolters Kluwer Legisway
One alternativeDiligent Entities
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashAthennian
Four alternativesCSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Diligent Entities, MinuteBox
AthennianHeld
Two alternativesComputershare GEMS, Diligent Entities
against: CSC Entity Management
Diligent Entities
Five alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, MinuteBox, Wolters Kluwer
CSC Entity Management
Four alternativesAthennian, EntityKeeper, Filejet, MinuteBox
against: Diligent Entities, salesforce-based legal packages
Athennian
Two alternativesCSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS
against: Diligent Entities
against: Blueprint OneWorld, Computershare GEMS, Diligent Boards, EntityKeeper, Filejet, Microsoft Excel, OnBoard, SharePoint
Perplexity SonarDiligent Entities
Two alternativesComputershare GEMS, Wolters Kluwer Legisway
against: Athennian, CSC Entity Management, Commenda, MinuteBox
Diligent EntitiesHeld
Three alternativesMetricStream, OneTrust, ServiceNow GRC
no first choiceCSC Entity Management
One alternativeWolters Kluwer Legisway
no first choiceagainst: EntityKeeper
Grok 4.20Athennian, Diligent Entities
One alternativeComputershare GEMS
Diligent EntitiesChanged
Two alternativesComputershare GEMS, MetricStream
against: Athennian
Diligent Entities
Four alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, EnGlobe
EntityKeeper
One alternativeCSC Entity Management
against: Athennian, Diligent Entities
Diligen
Two alternativesKlea, Teamed
against: Blueprint OneWorld, CSC Entity Management, CT Corporation Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Diligent Entities, Encompass, EntityKeeper, Sage Intacct
Mistral SmallCommenda
Two alternativesDiliTrust Entity Management, LegalX
Diligent EntitiesChanged
One alternativeComputershare GEMS
no first choiceLextreeDiligent Entities
Four alternativesConga Compliance Cloud, Covisint, Ontra, PwC's GLIMR
against: CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Intertrust
DeepSeek V4 FlashDiligent Entities
Two alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management
Diligent EntitiesHeld
Two alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management
Diligent Entities
Five alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management, DiliTrust Entity Management, EntityKeeper, Wolters Kluwer Legisway
against: Computershare GEMS
Athennian
Two alternativesEntityKeeper, NEWTON
against: CSC / CT Corporation, Diligent Entities, Xakia
Athennian
Two alternativesDiligent Entities, MinuteBox
against: CT/CSC, EntityKeeper, Wolters Kluwer Legisway
nothing named
Llama 4 MaverickLegalX
One alternativeGSI
EnGlobeChanged
Two alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management
no first choiceLegalX
Two alternativesDiscern, Wolters Kluwer Legisway
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashDiscern
Four alternativesComputershare GEMS, HighQ, Mitratech, OneTrust
Diligent BoardsChanged
Two alternativesAthennian, Workiva
Diligent One Platform
Two alternativesOnit, Trustmoor
against: Generic Options
Lextreeagainst: Computershare GEMS, Diligent Entitiesno first choiceagainst: Commenda, Diligent Entities, Discern, Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel
Kimi K2Diligent Entities
Two alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management
Diligent EntitiesHeld
Three alternativesCSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, MetricStream
Computershare GEMS, EnGlobe
Four alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management, CT Corporation Entity Management, Diligent Entities
CSC Entity Management
One alternativeDiligent Entities
against: EntityFlo
no first choicenothing named
GLM 4.7 FlashXDiligent Entities
Two alternativesAtlas, Computershare GEMS
Diligent EntitiesHeld
Two alternativesComputershare GEMS, EnGlobe
against: Carta
EnGlobe
Eight alternativesAthennian, CSC Entity Management, Carta, Computershare GEMS, Corporify, DiliTrust Entity Management, Diligent Entities, EntityKeeper
Athennian, Lextree
Three alternativesCSC Entity Management, Filejet, MinuteBox
no first choiceagainst: CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS, Dropbox, Intertrust, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint
MiniMax M2.5Athennian, Diligent EntitiesCSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMSChanged
Two alternativesAthennian, Carta
CSC Entity Management, Computershare GEMS
Four alternativesAthennian, Carta, Diligent Entities, EntityKeeper
CSC Entity Managementagainst: EntityKeeper, Xakiano first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:12yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:48yes37 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:56yes1458 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:58yes207 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:25yes2114 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:59yes1415 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:35yes2644 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:42yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:10yes833 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:23yes1326 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:04yes23129 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:57yes829 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:47no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:08yes56 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:11yes2320 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:46yes167 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:09yes3819 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:40yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:10yes2629 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:37yes54 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:18yes530 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:39yes1824 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:01yes2882 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:21yes525 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:45yes1513 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:45yes49 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:54yes2631 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:21yes159 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:56yes3017 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:37yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:29yes2759 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:48yes54 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:35no029 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:51yes2836 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:09yes1543 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:23yes821 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:29yes1710 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:19yes26 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:12yes2928 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:49yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:03yes3622 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:12yes53 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:52yes2446 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:06yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:33yes1380 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:18yes2634 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:54yes21105 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:52yes1535 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:19yes1811 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:37no010 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:15yes13145 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:02yes2014 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:03yes1513 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:41no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:18yes2989 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:47yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:08no050 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:01yes1934 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:40yes19117 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:36yes1534 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:17yes1811 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:55no05 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:07yes1328 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:34yes208 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:07yes2216 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:55yes57 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:06yes2831 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:57yes54 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:52yes2484 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:03yes2034 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:33yes19128 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:07yes944 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
CSC read as CSC Entity Management
CSC (Corporate Service Corporation) read as CSC Entity Management
CSC (Corporation Service Company) read as CSC Entity Management
CT Corporation read as CT Corporation Entity Management
CT Corporation (Wolters Kluwer) read as CT Corporation Entity Management
Computershare read as Computershare GEMS
DiliTrust read as DiliTrust Entity Management
DiliTrust Governance Suite read as DiliTrust Entity Management
Diligent read as Diligent Entities
Diligent (Legisway) read as Diligent Entities
Excel read as Microsoft Excel
Informatica MDM read as Informatica
Microsoft SharePoint read as SharePoint
Unresolved, counted raw
Amperity
Blueprism/UiPath-led customized flows
CT/CSC
Collibra
Conga Compliance Cloud
Covisint (now part of OpenText)
Diligen (DiliTrust)
Equinix
GSI
Generic Options (SharePoint/Excel)
Hightouch
LexisNexis Entity Management
LiveRamp
Nasdaq Governance Services
Oracle MDM
PwC's GLIMR
Salesforce Data 360
TMF Group / Vistra
Tealium
Teamed
Treasure Data
Trustmoor
Zeotap
salesforce-based legal packages
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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