Every category where a model named Inventive AI 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	Since September 2026
RFP response software	Sales	0%	18 of 82	0%	11	accepted challenger
Proposal software	Revenue operations	0%	18 of 56	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 65%	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 Inventive AI 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 Inventive AI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	3
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1

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

Direct8 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative17 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labels5

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative6 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 11 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.

“look for AI-native tools (e.g., *Arphie*, *Inventive AI*, or *1up*)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · RFP response · negative prompt · alternative

“Best "I Need AI but Can't Spend $900/month" Option: Inventive AI” DeepSeek V4 Flash · RFP response · budget prompt · alternative

“Inventive AI — Native AI with conflict/outdated content detection” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RFP response · negative prompt · alternative

“Best For: Teams looking for AI-first, rapid proposal drafting.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Proposals · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Inventive AI, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Inventive AI was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Responsive42 of 5011Not among the top eight

Loopio40 of 506Not among the top eight

AutoRFP.ai30 of 507Not among the top eight

Upland Qvidian24 of 501Not among the top eight

PandaDoc20 of 503Not among the top eight

Proposify14 of 500Not among the top eight

Arphie12 of 502Not among the top eight

DeepRFP9 of 504Not among the top eight

Tribble9 of 501Not among the top eight

SiftHub6 of 500Not 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 Inventive AI. 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 50 of the 50 answers that named Inventive AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

inventive.aiYour site41

responsive.io34

sifthub.io27

g2.com19

autorfp.ai18

storyflow.so18

guideflow.com16

learn.g2.com16

loopio.com16

bidsparq.com15

179 of the 220 domain citations in answers naming Inventive AI came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

inventive.ai/blog-posts/best-rfp-software25

storyflow.so/blog/best-rfp-response-tools-202618

learn.g2.com/best-rfp-software16

bidsparq.com/blog/rfp-management-software15

responsive.io/blog/best-rfp-software15

guideflow.com/blog/rfp-software14

inventive.ai/blog-posts/top-rfp-software-small-businesses-startups14

sifthub.io/blog/rfp-software-for-small-business14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

inventive.ai ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Inventive AI takes 0% of first choices and Loopio takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “rfp response software”

Position for “best rfp response software”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“inventive ai”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 558 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 9,514 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,421 · 124 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 885
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 18 clicks and $694 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

16 ads · 16 text · 4 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2025, as Inventive AI, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 15 in the year, 1 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 18 of 82 in RFP response

Segment leader

25%

Loopio

First choices: 7 across its categories
Named in: 50 answers
Its own site cited: in 50 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 inventive.ai

733

subdomains included

Content

504

counted in the table below

Documentation

119

Product · Integration

38 · 12

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	365	100	2026-09-25	CRM, Proposals
Comparison	64	60	2026-09-23
Glossary or explainer	49	9	2026-09-25
Podcast or video	9	undated
Template or tool	8	6	2026-09-16
Report or ebook	4	undated
Case study	3	undated
Webinar or virtual event	2	1	2026-09-15

Most recent

2026-09-25Ai hallucination in rfp responses blog
2026-09-25Best rfp software blog
2026-09-25Rfi scoring template blog
2026-09-25Rfp email template blog
2026-09-25Rfq process understanding blog
2026-09-25Understanding no bid contracts government contracting blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page inventive.ai 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.

Names read as Inventive AI

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

Inventive 2Inventive AI / AutoRFP 1Inventive.AI 1

Follow Inventive AI

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.

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The company

Inventive AI is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI RFP software that turns enterprise knowledge into winning responses, helping teams win 50% more RFPs
inventive.ai
For: sales teams
inventive.ai
Certifications: SOC 2GDPRCCPASOC 2 Type IISOC 1ISO 27001PCI Level 1SOC 2 compliance
Customers named: AssetWorks FacilitiesAssetworksRad AIHiBobRippleDruvaCushman & WakefieldCanary Technologies
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Inventive AI's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: inventive.ai, inventive.ai, inventive.ai/security, inventive.ai/solution/finance, inventive.ai/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

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

where Inventive AI 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 Inventive AI, 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.