HR · November 2026 Edition

Shortlist HR products from what AI models recommend

Fourteen AI models from twelve labs, asked the same buying questions six ways, on behalf of three sizes of buyer. Say what you are buying and the size of your company, and see the products they choose most consistently, with their reasons and reservations in their own words.

Gane, the publisher, has no products in this index.

58 categories
Free to read, no account. Shortlists are read for a mid-market company. All 58 categories · How it’s measured

The leaderboard

The first choice in all 58 categories · 50 contested
Showingin, ordered by
What the verdicts meanThe leader changes here
Noise floor 13 pointsHow far a category leader's share moved between two identical runs with nothing changed, measured on the last calibration repeat. A smaller change can't be told apart from repeat variation. How the floor is measured
All 58 scored categories; fourteen more are in the taxonomy and not yet run. Fifty-two different products hold or share a first place, and only four hold one in more than one category.
Compared with the October 2026 Edition. See what moved

Movement since October 2026

Between the October 2026 Edition and the November 2026 Edition the leader changed in twenty-three of fifty-eight categories, five of them by more than the noise floor of 13 points. Thirty-two of 623 changes in first-choice share clear the floor. Both editions asked the same fourteen models.
58Categories compared
623Products changed
32Moved past the floor
23Leader changes
7Verdict changes

Leader changes, mid-market buyers · 23, of which 5 cleared the floor

Culture Amp→15Five Engage39%
New leader · moved

17 points clear of Culture Amp's current 22%.

Goals and OKRs · Mid-market
Perdoo→Tability29%
New leader · moved

17 points clear of Perdoo's current 12%.

Names swapped within the floor · 18, read as unsettled

Verdict changes{for_seg}

Biggest movers in first-choice share, mid-market buyers

+340% → 34%
MovedCleared the floor by 21 points · rank 18 → 1 of 117
+345% → 39%
MovedCleared the floor by 21 points · rank 5 → 1 of 108
+2929% → 58%
MovedCleared the floor by 16 points · rank 1 of 101, unchanged
−2240% → 18%
MovedCleared the floor by 9 points · rank 1 → 3 of 116
+2231% → 53%
MovedCleared the floor by 9 points · rank 1 of 86, unchanged
+229% → 31%
MovedCleared the floor by 9 points · rank 3 → 2 of 75
+212% → 23%
MovedCleared the floor by 8 points · rank 15 → 2 of 150
+2016% → 36%
MovedCleared the floor by 7 points · rank 3 → 1 of 116
+1928% → 47%
MovedCleared the floor by 6 points · rank 1 of 82, unchanged
+199% → 28%
MovedCleared the floor by 6 points · rank 4 → 1 of 84
+186% → 24%
MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 2 of 65
−1818% → 0%
MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 2 → 10 of 66
0Floor 13 pts · measured

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 can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured · Every change resolves to its category page.

Where next

Each figure on this page resolves to a category page and the method.