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Index Vendors › Thought Industries · September 2026 Edition
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Thought Industries

93Judge labels
3First choices
27Negative 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
5% in Customer education for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 81 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 26% of its 27 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In customer education · 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 Thought Industries 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
Customer education and LMSCustomer2%8 of 8126%27criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Thought Industries 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 Thought Industries across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502002
GPT-5.4 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash03003
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01113
Mistral Small11013
DeepSeek V4 Flash01124
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K200224
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500202

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
Direct16 labelsNone
Paraphrase11 labels2
Comparative29 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative19 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 6 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.

“My top recommendation: Start with Thought Industries if you need API flexibility and have $25K+ budget” Mistral Small · Customer education · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Skilljar or Thought Industries are usually the most customer-education-native.” GPT-5.4 mini · Customer education · comparative prompt · first choice
“Thought Industries is a B2B-focused customer education platform with strong e-commerce capabilities” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Customer education · direct prompt · alternative
“Multi-portal/headless delivery, native eCommerce, AI + conversational learning, omnichannel” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Customer education · 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.

“"Bait-and-switch" pricing concerns - One reviewer flagged a "new pricing model, a 50% increase, classic bait-n-switch"” Kimi K2 · Customer education · negative prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise platforms (Skilljar, Thought Industries, Docebo): Start at $25,000+/year” Kimi K2 · Customer education · budget prompt · hard negative
“Lowest-rated among enterprise options... Best avoided for small/mid-sized teams” Grok 4.1 Fast · Customer education · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise tools (Skilljar, Docebo, LearnUpon, Thought Industries)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Customer education · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Thought Industries, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Thought Industries was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Skilljar84 of 9330Not in the top three
Docebo83 of 934Not in the top three
LearnUpon57 of 933Not in the top three
TalentLMS43 of 9314Not in the top three
LearnWorlds42 of 939Not in the top three
Intellum42 of 938Not in the top three
WorkRamp40 of 932Not in the top three
Absorb LMS37 of 931Not in the top three
Teachfloor26 of 931Not in the top three
Gainsight Customer Education19 of 934Not 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 Thought Industries. 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 15 of the 93 answers that named Thought Industries and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

minicoursegenerator.com11
meltingspot.io10
teachfloor.com8
easywebinar.com7
knowlify.com7
g2.com6
learnworlds.com6
teachable.com6
disco.co5
docebo.com5

Seventy-one of the seventy-one domain citations in answers naming Thought Industries came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 thoughtindustries.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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