ESG and carbon reporting · RankedWatershed
Watershed is a sustainability platform for ESG and carbon reporting · watershed.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 119 of 121 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Greenly is first at 33%.
Greenly is first at 24%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Workiva ESG is first at 39%.
Why models recommend it
“Mid-Market / Agile ESG & Carbon Platforms (Often the best fit for 500 employees): *Examples:* Watershed, Sweep, Position Green, Novata, Persefoni, Greenly.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Start by requesting demos from Watershed and Sweep. These two cover the vast majority of mid-sized B2B needs”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Best for: Enterprise climate and carbon accounting (Scope 1, 2, 3) with a focus on decarbonization action”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Watershed or Persefoni”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“technically rigorous but are generally framed for enterprises & financial institutions with complex regulatory needs and pricing/complexity”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · warning
“Watershed, Workiva are powerful but priced for bigger organizations”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Most advanced AI and benchmarking (enterprise-grade but pricey)”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · warning
“though these may be more costly and complex than necessary”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Watershed, over the 78 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 52 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 2 | View → | |
| 39 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Watershed →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Watershed's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Enterprise, Mid-market
- Customers named
- Canva, Delivery Hero, Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud, Medtronic, Burton, e.l.f. Beauty, Henry Schein
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 72 of the 78 answers that named Watershed and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
157 of the 174 domain citations in answers naming Watershed 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 240 | 13 | 2026-09-22 | ESG and carbon reporting | |
| Conference or event | 160 | 18 | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Case study | 52 | 0 | 2023-06-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 17 | 0 | 2026-01-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 15 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-08 |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page watershed.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.