2 categories · RankedShareworks
Shareworks is a cap table and compensation management product from Morgan Stanley · morganstanley.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise, contested with Carta Equity. Ranked 41 of 41 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Eqvista is first at 38%.
Carta Equity is first at 50%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first, contested: Carta Equity has 28%.
Why models recommend it
“If you need dedicated plan administration, SEC/ASC 718 reporting... Shareworks / J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions or Ledgy/Capdesk/Optio are the more tailored mid-market picks.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Enterprise-grade platform, highly suited for late-stage companies planning an IPO or with heavy global headcount and complex liquidity needs.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“*Best for Late-Stage / Pre-IPO Mid-Market* ... Drawbacks: Longer setup time, less intuitive user interface, and higher total cost”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Put it on the shortlist if you have a global workforce... It may be more platform than a growth-stage private company needs.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“avoiding the UX and support issues repeatedly reported for Shareworks and Certent for participant-facing equity administration”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“cost and complexity may be excessive for seed-/growth-stage startups, and reviewers have cited difficulties with the user interface”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Overly complex and expensive for early-stage startups... not recommended for early-stage companies”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Be cautious with Shareworks if you’re very early-stage. It may be more platform than you need”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Shareworks, over the 103 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | 33 | View → | |
| 69 | 2 | View → | |
| 60 | 1 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 2 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 3 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Shareworks →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 91 of the 103 answers that named Shareworks and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
309 of the 309 domain citations in answers naming Shareworks came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,659 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2,255 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 100 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 59 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 48 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page morganstanley.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.