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Index Vendors › Ironclad · September 2026 Edition
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Ironclad

134Judge labels
15First choices
58Negative labels
12 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
22% in CLM for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 65 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
4 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 31% of its 48 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
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 Ironclad 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 operations12%3 of 6531%48criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ironclad 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 Ironclad across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510012
GPT-5.4 mini20114
Gemini 3.5 Flash41016
Perplexity Sonar02013
Grok 4.1 Fast11125
Mistral Small01225
DeepSeek V4 Flash13026
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash03014
Kimi K202125
GLM 4.7 FlashX12014
MiniMax M2.511002

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
Direct29 labels9
Paraphrase13 labels2
Comparative30 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labels1
Scale-constrained14 labels3
Negative26 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative134 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 22 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 standard for fast-growing mid-market companies. Incredible, visual, drag-and-drop workflow designer and best-in-class Salesforce integration.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · scale prompt · first choice
“focus your search on no-code, collaborative, and AI-native CLMs (such as Ironclad, Juro, LinkSquares, or ContractSafe)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · negative prompt · first choice
“Ironclad is a leader in AI-powered contract lifecycle management, particularly for mid-market and enterprise legal teams.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CLM · direct prompt · first choice
“Ironclad is widely loved for its modern interface and its powerful, no-code Workflow Designer.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · comparative prompt · first choice

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.

“Avoid enterprise platforms (Ironclad, DocuSign CLM) - typically start at $20,000-50,000/year” Mistral Small · CLM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise tools like Ironclad/DocuSign CLM start at $20K+/yr, so avoid for budgets.” Grok 4.1 Fast · CLM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise CLMs like Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, Agiloft, or ContractPodAi” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CLM · budget prompt · hard negative
“The primary trap for budget-conscious companies is overbuying: investing in a complex enterprise system (like Ironclad or Conga) that requires thousands of dollars in implementation fees” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ironclad, over the 134 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ironclad was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
DocuSign CLM92 of 1342Not in the top three
Icertis84 of 13411Not in the top three
Agiloft76 of 1345Not in the top three
Conga CLM67 of 1340Not in the top three
Sirion56 of 1348Not in the top three
Juro53 of 1348Compare →
LinkSquares46 of 1343Not in the top three
ContractSafe42 of 13416Not in the top three
Concord40 of 1349Not 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 Ironclad. 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 25 of the 134 answers that named Ironclad and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ironcladapp.comYour site13
sirion.ai11
bindlegal.com10
gartner.com10
conga.com9
g2.com9
learn.g2.com9
juro.com8
summize.com8
getaccept.com7

Eighty-one of the ninety-four domain citations in answers naming Ironclad came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Ironclad'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 Ironclad, 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 ironcladapp.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.

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