Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 62 → 12 of 53
1 category · RankedIronclad
144Judge labels
19First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
18% in CLM for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 63 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 59 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Ironclad →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business12 of 53
2%30 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 63
15%59 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 65
18%53 labels
accepted challenger
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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract lifecycle management and e-signature | Revenue operations | 15% | 4 of 63 | 20% | 59 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 12% → 14%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Ironclad held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CLM · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 12% → 14%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 60
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 22% → 18%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
18%from 22% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 65
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLM | 12% | 14% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 12% → 14%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 4 of 63 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Ironclad across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Ironclad across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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
Direct30 labels9
Paraphrase22 labels3
Comparative29 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained17 labels1
Scale-constrained20 labels6
Negative26 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative144 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 28 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.
“aim for mid-market tools like Ironclad, Conga CLM, LinkSquares, Sirion, Agiloft, or SpotDraft... Ironclad/Conga: Workflow-first, Salesforce-heavy, great for sales/legal speed.” Grok 4.20 · CLM · scale prompt · first choice
“Ironclad - AI-powered drafting, workflow automation, strong Salesforce integration. Best for mid-market to enterprise legal/sales teams” Grok 4.20 · CLM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Most enterprise buyers shortlist Icertis (for AI/governance), Ironclad (for workflow UX), and Sirion” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CLM · comparative prompt · first choice
“or Ironclad if you want advanced AI capabilities and have the budget for a more robust implementation” MiniMax M2.5 · CLM · direct 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 vendors like Ironclad, Agiloft, Icertis, and ContractPodAI if budget predictability matters” Kimi K2 · CLM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid if you need granular security: Ironclad (current security gaps).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CLM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise suites with long implementations and premium pricing: platforms like Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, Conga, Icertis, and Sirion can be the wrong fit” Perplexity Sonar · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative
“the standard "Enterprise CLM" systems (like Ironclad, Agiloft, or Sirion) are usually out of the question” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ironclad, over the 144 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ironclad, over the 144 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Ironclad. 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 133 of the 144 answers that named Ironclad and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
conga.com75
bindlegal.com72
ironcladapp.comYour site58
g2.com51
oneflow.com50
zylo.com49
larksuite.com48
sirion.ai48
learn.g2.com41
contractsafe.com37
471 of the 529 domain citations in answers naming Ironclad came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
ironcladapp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ironclad takes 15% of first choices and PandaDoc takes 23%.ShowHide
Search and answers
ironcladapp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ironclad takes 15% of first choices and PandaDoc takes 23%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “contract lifecycle management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best contract lifecycle management platform”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 49,500 a month (“ironclad”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,365 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 128,319 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,153 · 959 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,761
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
15%
rank 4 of 63 in CLM
Segment leader
23%
PandaDoc
- First choices
- 19 across its categories
- Named in
- 144 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 133 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on ironcladapp.com
1,224
subdomains included
Content
684
counted in the table below
Documentation
145
Product · Integration
3 · 44
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 265 | 32 | 2026-09-25 | CLM, CPQ | |
| Glossary or explainer | 190 | 8 | 2026-09-28 | CLM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 100 | 1 | 2026-09-23 | CLM | |
| Case study | 56 | 2 | 2026-09-03 | CLM | |
| Report or ebook | 34 | 2 | 2026-07-06 | CLM | |
| Comparison | 32 | 2 | 2026-09-02 | CLM | |
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2025-10-31 | ||
| News or press | 3 | 0 | 2025-04-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2026-02-12 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28What is an electronic contract glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-25Service contract templates types clauses and best practices blog
- 2026-09-23How to negotiate contract terms blog
- 2026-09-23Legal ai program webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-18Nda clause negotiation practical guide for legal teams blog
- 2026-09-18Want to close deals faster add clm to your tech stack blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ironcladapp.com 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.
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The company
Ironclad is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Ironclad is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI Contract Lifecycle Management Software
- For
- enterprise business teams
- Price stated
- Get a tailored quote based on what you need today and where you’re going next. ironcladapp.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get a free demo. ironcladapp.com/security
- Certifications
- AppExchange approvedGDPR & HIPAASOC 1 & SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001/17/18CSA Trusted Provider
- Hosting
- US-hosted Google Cloud Platformmultiple zonesmultiple data center regions
- Customers named
- HeinekenBenjamin MooreHormelRodan + FieldsGongRipplingDemostackOrangetheory
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations
What Ironclad's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ironcladapp.com, ironcladapp.com/pricing, ironcladapp.com/security, ironcladapp.com/product/ironclad-ai-responsibility, ironcladapp.com/resources/articles/type/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Ironclad 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 Ironclad, 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.