Every category where a model named Brainshark 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Sales enablement and content	Sales	0%	81 of 81	75%	8	under 10 labels · led by Dock at 19%
Sales coaching and training	Sales	0%	87 of 124	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by SalesHood at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Brainshark yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Brainshark across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	2	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	2

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative22 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Showpad/Bigtincan/Brainshark: Now all owned by Vector Capital... Avoid signing new multi-year contracts” Kimi K2 · Sales enablement · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid signing new multi-year contracts with Highspot, Seismic, Showpad, or Brainshark” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Sales enablement · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid signing new multi-year contracts with Highspot, Showpad, or Brainshark” Llama 4 Maverick · Sales enablement · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid multi-year commitments with consolidating players like ... Brainshark until 2027 roadmaps clarify” Grok 4.1 Fast · Sales enablement · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Brainshark, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Brainshark was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Highspot26 of 292Not in the top three

Seismic25 of 292Not in the top three

Showpad25 of 290Not in the top three

MindTickle23 of 294Not in the top three

Allego18 of 291Not in the top three

Spekit16 of 293Not in the top three

SalesHood15 of 292Not in the top three

Gong14 of 291Not in the top three

Bigtincan13 of 290Not in the top three

Convo10 of 290Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Brainshark. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 29 answers that named Brainshark and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com2

coachpilot.com1

consumer.ftc.gov1

docebo.com1

g2.com1

hyperbound.ai1

ie.trustpilot.com1

ippei.com1

kobedigital.com1

pipedrive.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Brainshark came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/sales-training-service-providers-worldwide2

coachpilot.com/blog/sales-training-software-for-small-business1

consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/04/how-spot-and-avoid-business-coaching-scams1

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/sales-coaching-tools1

g2.com/categories/sales-coaching1

g2.com/sellers/salesrx1

gartner.com/reviews/market/ai-coaching-applications1

gartner.com/reviews/market/revenue-enablement-platforms1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Brainshark

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Brainshark; a claim can dispute any of them.

Brainshark (Bigtincan) 1Seismic Learning / Brainshark / SalesHood 1

The company

Brainshark.

Website: brainshark.com
Headquarters: Waltham, United States
Founded: 1999

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase

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