# Entity management for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "legal entity management software" and as "corporate governance and entity management tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/entity-management/smb

**Standing:** Filejet leads with 43% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 49 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Filejet](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/filejet/index.md) | 43% | 2% | 59 |
| 2 | [EntityKeeper](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/entitykeeper/index.md) | 20% | 12% | 48 |
| 3 | [Pulley](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/pulley/index.md) | 8% | 14% | 21 |
| 4 | [Diliforce](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/diliforce/index.md) | 6% | 0% | 15 |
| 5 | [ContractZen](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/contractzen/index.md) | 6% | 0% | 12 |
| 6 | [LegalZoom](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/legalzoom/index.md) | 2% | 7% | 14 |
| 9 | [Athennian](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/athennian/index.md) | 2% | 32% | 31 |
| 13 | [Diligent Entities](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/diligent-entities/index.md) | 2% | 76% | 50 |
| 18 | [Carta](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/carta/index.md) | 0% | 25% | 12 |
| 83 | [CSC Entity Management](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/csc-entity-management/index.md) | 0% | 86% | 14 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 83 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: EntityKeeper; alternatives Diliforce, EntityFlo, Filejet, Ironclad
- GPT-5.4 mini: Filejet; alternatives EntityKeeper, NEWTON
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: EntityKeeper; alternatives Athennian, Carta, Harbor Compliance, MinuteBox
- Perplexity Sonar: Filejet; alternatives EntityKeeper
- Grok 4.20: Filejet; alternatives Corporify, Diliforce, EntityKeeper, Klea
- Mistral Small: Pulley; alternatives Athennian, Filejet, RazorSign
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Filejet; alternatives EntityKeeper, LegalZoom, ZenBusiness
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Filejet; alternatives Diliforce, Pulley
- Kimi K2: EntityKeeper, Filejet; alternatives ContractZen, Diliforce, Lextree
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Diliforce; alternatives ContractZen, Filejet
- MiniMax M2.5: EntityKeeper, Filejet; alternatives Clio, Diliforce
- GPT-6 Luna: Filejet; alternatives CT hCue for Small Business
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Pulley; alternatives Diliforce, EntityKeeper, Filejet

## Sources the answers cite

74 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- capterra.com: 50 answers, 83 citations
- softwareadvice.com: 49 answers, 82 citations
- getapp.com: 49 answers, 79 citations
- sourceforge.net: 28 answers, 35 citations
- filejet.com: 26 answers, 32 citations
- toolradar.com: 25 answers, 37 citations
- capterra.co.uk: 24 answers, 27 citations
- g2.com: 19 answers, 24 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://getapp.com/operations-management-software/entity-management/org/small-business (43 answers)
- https://capterra.com/entity-management-software (32 answers)
- https://softwareadvice.com/entity-management (32 answers)
- https://softwareadvice.com/entity-management/small-business (31 answers)
- https://capterra.com/entity-management-software/s/small-businesses (25 answers)
- https://getapp.com/operations-management-software/entity-management (22 answers)
- https://toolradar.com/best/entity-management/for/small-businesses (21 answers)
- https://capterra.co.uk/directory/31737/entity-management/software (19 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/entity-management-software (19 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/entity-management/smb (17 answers)

## Warned against

- Diligent Entities: 38 of 50 labels negative. "Small businesses should be cautious with enterprise-grade entity management tools like Diligent Entities..." ... "High costs: Diligent Entities starts around $10,000+ per year per feature" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- CSC Entity Management: 12 of 14 labels negative. "Shows similarly high negative sentiment (70%) among reviewers, suggesting it's not well-suited for smaller operations." (MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt)
- Athennian: 10 of 31 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise products such as Diligent, CSC, or Athennian" (Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt)
- EntityKeeper: 6 of 48 labels negative. "I'd skip EntityKeeper on a tight budget: its Corporate plan is listed at $5,000/year" (GPT-6 Luna, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 10 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: EntityKeeper (23%) to Filejet (43%). Margin 23 points, beyond the floor.

- Filejet: 17% to 43%, +26. Cleared the floor by 16 points · rank 2 → 1 of 83.
- Pulley: 0% to 8%, +8. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 54 → 3 of 83.
- MinuteBox: 8% to 0%, −8. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 4 → 14 of 83.
- EntityFlo: 6% to 0%, −6. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 6 → 35 of 83.
- ContractZen: 10% to 6%, −4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 3 → 5 of 83.
- EntityKeeper: 23% to 20%, −3. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 → 2 of 83.
- Diliforce: 8% to 6%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 5 → 4 of 83.
- Diligent Entities: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 99 → 13 of 83.
- LegalZoom: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 19 → 6 of 83.
- Athennian: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 10 → 9 of 83.
- Carta: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 23 → 18 of 83.
- CT Corporation Entity Management: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 84 → 73 of 83.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.