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Index › Vendors › Genius Referrals · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Genius Referrals

11Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

7 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Genius Referrals was named 2 times in Referrals, where PartnerStack led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business21 of 78

under the label threshold

Mid-market107 of 107

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In referrals · 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 Genius Referrals 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
Referral and partner programs	Partner and channel	0%	107 of 107	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by PartnerStack at 19%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.

“Genius Referrals - Multiple users report no response from customer service for days, making setup impossible.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Referrals · negative prompt · hard negative

“*Caution for customer support* - Users report waiting days without responses” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Referrals · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Genius Referrals, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Genius Referrals was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Referral Factory8 of 111Not in the top three

ReferralCandy7 of 113Not in the top three

Referral Rock4 of 112Not in the top three

Friendbuy4 of 110Not in the top three

GrowSurf4 of 110Not in the top three

Referral Rocket3 of 111Not in the top three

Viral Loops3 of 111Not in the top three

Talon.One2 of 111Not in the top three

Birdeye2 of 110Not in the top three

FirstPromoter2 of 110Not 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 Genius Referrals. 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 11 answers that named Genius Referrals and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com2

affise.com1

blog.nextbee.com1

blossu.com1

collegian.com1

customergauge.com1

extole.com1

fingerlakes1.com1

geniusreferrals.comYour site1

linkjolt.io1

Ten of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Genius Referrals came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

capterra.com/referral-software2

affise.com/blog/referral-software1

blog.nextbee.com/2026/03/02/best-referral-software-for-b2b-companies-a-strategic-growth-gu1

blossu.com/blog/best-referral-program-software1

collegian.com/sponsored/2025/12/top-5-referral-program-software-for-small-business-in-20261

customergauge.com/blog/b2b-referral-software1

extole.com/blog/retail-referral-software1

fingerlakes1.com/2025/12/16/best-referral-program-software-for-small-business-in-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

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 Genius Referrals'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 Genius Referrals, 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 geniusreferrals.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.