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ContractWorks

31Judge labels
2First choices
5Negative labels
9 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.
Best standing
4% in CLM for mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 65 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 11 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In clm · 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 ContractWorks 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 rateLabelsQuadrant
Contract lifecycle management and e-signatureRevenue operations4%9 of 659%11accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ContractWorks 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 ContractWorks across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00101
Perplexity Sonar10012
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick11103
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labels2
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative7 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.

“The best contract lifecycle management platform for a company with a limited budget is ContractWorks” Llama 4 Maverick · CLM · budget prompt · first choice
“pick ContractWorks for the best balance of affordability and usability” Perplexity Sonar · CLM · budget prompt · first choice
“ContractWorks is a budget-friendly option for simple storage needs” Llama 4 Maverick · CLM · comparative prompt · alternative
“start with lighter options like Juro, ContractWorks, or SpotDraft” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CLM · negative 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.

“described as repositories or document tools that do not manage the full lifecycle” Perplexity Sonar · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ContractWorks, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ContractWorks was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
ContractSafe23 of 3111Not in the top three
PandaDoc21 of 3110Not in the top three
Ironclad21 of 311Not in the top three
DocuSign CLM19 of 310Not in the top three
Concord15 of 313Not in the top three
Agiloft14 of 312Not in the top three
Juro14 of 310Not in the top three
Icertis13 of 310Not in the top three
Zoho Contracts11 of 314Not in the top three
LinkSquares11 of 310Not 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 ContractWorks. 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 5 of the 31 answers that named ContractWorks and are not a share of its labels.

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