Every category where a model named Malbek 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
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature	Revenue operations	2%	14 of 65	17%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	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

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Malbek — Best Overall for Mid-Market Legal Ops” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CLM · direct prompt · first choice

“Top-rated alternatives with fewer complaints: LinkSquares, Malbek, Juro” Grok 4.1 Fast · CLM · negative prompt · alternative

“For regulated mid-market organizations → Malbek” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CLM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Malbek (4.7/5)” Mistral Small · 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.

“be cautious if you need published pricing... it is also described as quote-only” Perplexity Sonar · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Quote-only pricing: No transparency... Amendment limitations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Malbek, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Malbek was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ironclad16 of 181Not in the top three

LinkSquares15 of 181Not in the top three

Conga CLM15 of 180Not in the top three

DocuSign CLM15 of 180Not in the top three

Icertis13 of 182Not in the top three

Agiloft13 of 181Not in the top three

Sirion12 of 183Not in the top three

Juro12 of 181Not in the top three

Coupa6 of 180Not in the top three

Workday CLM6 of 180Not 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 Malbek. 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 18 answers that named Malbek and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aibusinessgeek.com2

bindlegal.com2

checkbox.ai2

ciopages.com2

contracko.com2

corcentric.com2

getaccept.com2

haqq.ai2

intelagree.com2

ironcladapp.com2

Twenty of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Malbek came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aibusinessgeek.com/articles/ai-clm-software-20262

bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/best-clm-tools2

checkbox.ai/contract-lifecycle-management/user-friendly-contract-lifecycle-management-best2

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/contract-lifecycle-management2

contracko.com/clm-comparisons2

corcentric.com/contract-lifecycle-management-software-pros-and-cons-of-neglecting2

getaccept.com/blog/best-contract-management-software2

haqq.ai/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

Malbek.

Website: malbek.io
Headquarters: United States

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase

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