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Ambition

189Judge labels
30First choices
51Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
36% in Sales gamification for enterprise buyers
Rank 2 of 64 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 59 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Ambition →
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
In sales gamification · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Ambition for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Sales gamificationSales19%2 of 6422%59accepted challenger
Sales coaching and trainingSales0%37 of 1240%2under 10 labels · led by MindTickle at 24%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Territory and quota planningRevenue operations0%79 of 1230%1under 10 labels · led by CaptivateIQ Planning at 36%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ambition yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Ambition across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502103
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash31127
Perplexity Sonar01214
Grok 4.2002103
Mistral Small11215
DeepSeek V4 Flash31015
Llama 4 Maverick00314
Qwen 3.7 Flash01225
Kimi K222026
GLM 4.7 FlashX04116
MiniMax M2.530003
GPT-6 Luna03014
Muse Glimmer 30B13015

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct35 labels12
Paraphrase35 labels15
Comparative40 labels8not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labelsNone
Scale-constrained24 labels3
Negative32 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative189 labels in all, every segment counted; 30 of the 39 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Frequently mentioned as a comprehensive solution for mid-sized companies (10-50 employees)... making it a strong choice for mid-market B2B companies.” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales gamification · direct prompt · first choice
“Ambition is the industry standard for mid-market to enterprise B2B companies that want to tie gamification directly to performance management.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales gamification · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Ambition: Excellent for mid-to-large enterprises with complex CRM setups and a strong focus on coaching and operational metrics.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales gamification · scale prompt · first choice
“Ambition | Enterprise performance management + coaching | Strong for 500+ orgs, $45/user/mo, deep CRM integration” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Sales gamification · scale prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“What to Avoid on a Budget - Ambition (~$45/user/month) — Powerful but pricey” Kimi K2 · Sales gamification · budget prompt · hard negative
“and Ambition (complex, expensive, misleading if you just want gamification)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Sales gamification · negative prompt · hard negative
“many of the major enterprise sales gamification platforms (such as Ambition, SalesScreen, and Spinify) are designed for larger organizations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales gamification · budget prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious if you have a small team, because one review says it is "overkill and overpriced under 15 reps"” Perplexity Sonar · Sales gamification · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ambition, over the 189 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ambition was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Spinify160 of 18953Compare →
LevelEleven59 of 1892Not among the top eight
Plecto58 of 1891Not among the top eight
SmartWinnr48 of 1893Not among the top eight
Hoopla41 of 1890Not among the top eight
Centrical30 of 1892Not among the top eight
Leaderboarded22 of 1895Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Ambition. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 184 of the 189 answers that named Ambition and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com124
guideflow.com110
kendo.ai94
techdogs.com87
leaderboarded.com76
attention.com68
spinify.com60
prospeo.io59
openloyalty.io57
fitsmallbusiness.com55

790 of the 790 domain citations in answers naming Ambition came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

ambition.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ambition takes 19% of first choices and Spinify takes 31%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “sales gamification platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best sales gamification platform”
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not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
135,000 a month (“ambition”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
7,817 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 23,985 a month
Searches its site ranks for
565 · 43 in the top three
Sites linking to it
1,704
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
19%
rank 2 of 64 in sales gamification
Segment leader
31%
Spinify
First choices
30 across its categories
Named in
189 answers
Its own site cited
in 184 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on ambition.com
1,156
subdomains included
Content
293
counted in the table below
Documentation
793
Product · Integration
25 · 19
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog270undatedCRM
Case study11undated
Conference or event4undated
Comparison3undated
Glossary or explainer3undated
Report or ebook1undated
Template or tool1undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page ambition.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.

Follow Ambition

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Ambition is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Execution Operating System for Revenue Teams
For
revenue teams
Price stated
Starter $45/user/month; AI INSIGHTS $5/user/month; AI ACTIONS $4/user/month. Pro $65/user/month; AI INSIGHTS $5/user/month; AI ACTIONS $4/user/month. Enterprise $75/user/month; AI INSIGHTS $5/user/month; AI ACTIONS $4/user/month. ambition.com/pricing
Starting price
45 ambition.com/pricing
Free plan or trial
pilot options for qualified customers ambition.com/pricing
Integrations claimed
4 ambition.com/product/integrations
Customers named
Liz AufmuthJoe ColeJohn KiriazidesRubrikADPMemphis GrizzliesZoomRyder
Not stated on the pages read
Certifications, hosting

What Ambition's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ambition.com, ambition.com/pricing, ambition.com/product/overview, ambition.com/customers, ambition.com/product/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Ambition's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Ambition, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Ambition by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Ambition is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Ambition, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at ambition.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Ambition is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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Ambition is among the products AI models recommend first in Sales gamification this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Among AI models' top three in Sales gamification, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/sales/sales-gamification/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/ambition--sales-gamification-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Sales gamification, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Sales gamification standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Among AI models' top three in Sales gamification, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/sales/sales-gamification/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/ambition--sales-gamification-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Sales gamification, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Sales gamification standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Among AI models' top three in Sales gamification, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/sales/sales-gamification/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/ambition--sales-gamification-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Sales gamification, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Sales gamification standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.