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1 category · Named, not ranked

Cardone University

5Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cardone University was named 4 times in Sales coaching, where SalesHood led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business102 of 131

under the label threshold

Mid-market88 of 124

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In sales coaching · 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 Cardone University 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 coaching and training	Sales	0%	88 of 124	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by SalesHood at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cardone University 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 Cardone University across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Sales Gravy University and Cardone University at $30 to $100 per seller per month are among the most affordable paid programs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Sales coaching · budget prompt · alternative

“Cardone University offers the lowest price point at $59-97/month” Mistral Small · Sales coaching · budget prompt · alternative

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.

“Verdict: Considered poor value by practicing sales professionals; better suited for transactional/high-pressure environments, not consultative B2B sales” Kimi K2 · Sales coaching · negative prompt · hard negative

“Cardone University (Grant Cardone)... Approach with Caution” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales coaching · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cardone University, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cardone University was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SalesHood4 of 50Not in the top three

360Learning3 of 52Not in the top three

Gong3 of 50Not in the top three

MindTickle3 of 50Not in the top three

Allego2 of 50Not in the top three

Chorus by ZoomInfo2 of 50Not in the top three

Dan Lok2 of 50Not in the top three

HubSpot Academy2 of 50Not in the top three

Fathom1 of 51Not in the top three

Hyperbound1 of 51Not 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 Cardone University. 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 1 of the 5 answers that named Cardone University and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

autobound.ai1

bestsalesteamtraining.com1

guideflow.com1

igotanoffer.com1

learn.g2.com1

mindtickle.com1

oliv.ai1

pipeline.zoominfo.com1

Eight of the eight domain citations in answers naming Cardone University came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

autobound.ai/blog/top-10-real-time-sales-coaching-apps-for-reps-in-2025-your-guide-to-coac1

bestsalesteamtraining.com/affordable-sales-training1

guideflow.com/blog/best-sales-coaching-software1

igotanoffer.com/en/advice/best-sales-coaching-services1

learn.g2.com/best-sales-coaching-software1

mindtickle.com/blog/sales-coaching-software1

oliv.ai/blog/best-sales-coaching-softwares1

pipeline.zoominfo.com/sales/sales-coaching-software-tools1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cardone University

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

Cardone University (Grant Cardone) 1Grant Cardone / Cardone University 1

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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 Cardone University'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 Cardone University, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at cardoneuniversity.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.