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 70 → 10 of 72
1 category · RankedPeople.ai
52Judge labels
1First choices
15Negative labels
13 / 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
2% in Revenue intel for small business buyers
Rank 18 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 16 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of People.ai →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business12 of 75
2%17 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market18 of 76
0%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise14 of 73
0%17 labels
criticized challenger
In revenue intel · 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 People.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue intelligence and forecasting | Sales | 0% | 18 of 76 | 12% | 16 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, People.ai held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Revenue intel · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 28 → 17 of 68
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 18 of 66
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue intel | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 28 → 18 of 76 |
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 People.ai 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 People.ai 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative22 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labels1
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative12 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative52 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.
“Prioritize platforms with free PoCs (e.g., People.ai or newer ones like MaxIQ/Tellius score well for usability).” Grok 4.20 · Revenue intel · negative prompt · alternative
“If you need CRM data capture and hygiene, look at Revenue Grid or People.ai.” Perplexity Sonar · Revenue intel · comparative prompt · alternative
“People.ai is best when CRM activity data is incomplete, rep logging is unreliable” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Revenue intel · comparative prompt · alternative
“known for automated activity capture and better understanding of seller activity” GPT-5.4 mini · Revenue intel · 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.
“Clari and People.ai are massive administrative lifts... Avoid these enterprise forecasters” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Revenue intel · negative prompt · hard negative
“People.ai has faced criticism for data accuracy and integration challenges.” Mistral Small · Revenue intel · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as People.ai, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and People.ai was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as People.ai, over the 52 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and People.ai 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 People.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 51 of the 52 answers that named People.ai and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
avoma.com33
demandbase.com33
optif.ai29
salesmotion.io29
cleverly.co27
zapier.com23
pipeline.zoominfo.com21
tellius.com18
marketsandmarkets.com17
superagi.com15
245 of the 245 domain citations in answers naming People.ai came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
people.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, People.ai takes 0% of first choices and Clari Copilot takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
people.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, People.ai takes 0% of first choices and Clari Copilot takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “revenue intelligence and forecasting platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best revenue intelligence and forecasting platform”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000 a month (“people.ai”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 190 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 42 · 2 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,602
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 18 of 76 in revenue intel
Segment leader
28%
Clari Copilot
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 52 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 51 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 people.ai
369
subdomains included
Content
187
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
18 · 9
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 77 | undated | CRM | ||
| News or press | 55 | 14 | 2026-10-01 | CRM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 17 | 3 | 2026-08-20 | ||
| Case study | 14 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 4 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Podcast or video | 7 | 1 | 2026-08-20 | ||
| Conference or event | 5 | 2 | 2026-10-21 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 1 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-21Your deal doesnt die in the meeting conference or event
- 2026-10-08Your ai is giving three teams three different answers conference or event
- 2026-10-01Strategy also needs the backstory news or press
- 2026-09-29Backstory included in independent evaluation of revenue orchestration platforms for b2b news or press
- 2026-09-29The saas model was built for humans agents dont care 2 news or press
- 2026-09-25Manual vs automatic activity logging whats the difference comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page people.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 October 5, 2026.
Names read as People.ai
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as People.ai; a claim can dispute any of them.
People.ai (Backstory) 1
Follow People.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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
People.ai, Inc. is the company behind People.ai.ShowHide
The company
People.ai, Inc. is the company behind People.ai.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- people.ai
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- People.ai is now Backstory. Same product, same data infrastructure - now positioned around what revenue leaders actually need: answers, not more data.
- For
- CROs and VPs of Sales who own the number and answer to the board when it changes.
- Price stated
- Request a demo people.ai
- Customers named
- Red HatFive9AMDAvevaPluralsight
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What People.ai's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: people.ai. A claimed page can correct any of 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 People.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 People.ai, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for People.ai by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where People.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 People.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.