Mentoring software · RankedSCORE
SCORE is a business mentoring service that offers free expert mentoring, workshops, courses and resources · score.org ↗
Why models recommend it
“Established names with strong track records (e.g., SCORE, MicroMentor, Chronus) often provide safer, more structured experiences.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · alternative
“SCORE: Free, government-backed mentorship for small business owners and entrepreneurs in the U.S.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“For budget-conscious entrepreneurs: SCORE offers excellent free business mentoring in the US”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), and university career services”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SCORE, over the 22 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 3 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SCORE's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- small businesses
- Price stated
- free
- Free plan or trial
- free expert mentoring, workshops, courses, resources, and free SCORE Mentor
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 20 of the 22 answers that named SCORE and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming SCORE 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 425 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | ||
| News or press | 17 | 0 | 2026-06-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2026-03-06 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2026-03-17 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-15Stop working for your business build a business that pays you back news or press
- 2026-05-14Navigating transformational leadership in times of change for small business news or press
- 2026-04-232026 score client of the year winners news or press
- 2026-04-14Advanced programs for small businesses blog
- 2026-03-17Success stories case study
- 2026-03-17Press releases news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page score.org 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.