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Upland Qvidian

127Judge labels
0First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
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
0% in RFP response for mid-market buyers
Rank 17 of 82 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 33 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Upland Qvidian →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In rfp response · 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 Upland Qvidian 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
RFP response softwareSales0%17 of 8221%33accepted challenger
Proposal softwareRevenue operations0%44 of 5640%5under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 65%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Upland Qvidian yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Upland Qvidian across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500022
GPT-5.4 mini00112
Gemini 3.5 Flash00112
Perplexity Sonar02103
Grok 4.2002035
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash03003
Kimi K201113
GLM 4.7 FlashX02204
MiniMax M2.504004
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B02103

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
Direct23 labelsNone
Paraphrase11 labelsNone
Comparative41 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labelsNone
Scale-constrained18 labelsNone
Negative27 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative127 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 3 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.

“Qvidian is the robust, traditional choice... Trade-off: It typically requires more implementation time and a higher budget” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RFP response · direct prompt · alternative
“Deep Microsoft/Word integration. However, implementation can take 3–6 months, and the UI is often considered dated” DeepSeek V4 Flash · RFP response · comparative prompt · alternative
“Qvidian/Uplvand is best for Mid-to-large enterprises [100+ users] with global customers, complex tech stacks” Muse Glimmer 30B · RFP response · scale prompt · alternative
“*RFPIO / Qualia (formerly Qvidian)*: Very powerful, heavy analytics, but steep learning curve.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RFP response · scale 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.

“described as having "uninspiring user interface, awkward workflows, and underdeveloped AI capabilities"” Kimi K2 · RFP response · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise-heavy like Upland Qvidian unless you need deep proposal automation.” Grok 4.20 · RFP response · direct prompt · hard negative
“Established giants like Upland Qvidian, and historically older setups of Loopio or Responsive ... are powerful but require massive upkeep.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · RFP response · negative prompt · soft negative
“Its AI features are flawed, with many users complaining about inaccurate content recommendations through its "Auto-Answer" technology.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · RFP response · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Upland Qvidian, over the 127 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Upland Qvidian was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Loopio116 of 12732Not among the top eight
Responsive115 of 12747Not among the top eight
PandaDoc54 of 1276Not among the top eight
Proposify43 of 1271Not among the top eight
AutoRFP.ai39 of 1277Not among the top eight
Inventive AI24 of 1274Not among the top eight
Arphie19 of 1271Not among the top eight
Better Proposals13 of 1270Not among the top eight
QorusDocs12 of 1271Not among the top eight
Qwilr11 of 1272Not among the top eight
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 Upland Qvidian. 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 124 of the 127 answers that named Upland Qvidian and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

responsive.io86
inventive.ai74
loopio.com58
g2.com53
storyflow.so46
sifthub.io45
learn.g2.com41
autorfp.ai37
bidsparq.com33
guideflow.com31

504 of the 504 domain citations in answers naming Upland Qvidian came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

uplandsoftware.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Upland Qvidian takes 0% of first choices and Loopio takes 25%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “rfp response software”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best rfp response software”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
40 a month (“upland qvidian”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
1 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 67,149 a month
Searches its site ranks for
6,635 · 505 in the top three
Sites linking to it
15,605
Paid Google search
4 searches its ads show for, about 65 clicks and $1,203 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
113 ads · 57 text, 30 image, 26 video · 26 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2023, as UPLAND SOFTWARE, INC., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 48 in the year, 65 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 17 of 82 in RFP response
Segment leader
25%
Loopio
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
127 answers
Its own site cited
in 124 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on uplandsoftware.com
7,609
subdomains included
Content
6,214
counted in the table below
Documentation
76
Product · Integration
168 · 131
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog3,97412026-09-28SEO, Direct mail
Case study43422026-09-23Direct mail
Webinar or virtual event399102026-09-18Proposals, CRM
News or press37502020-09-08CRM, Content marketing
Report or ebook36742026-09-25Mobile apps, Direct mail
Glossary or explainer22912026-08-05
Conference or event16012026-07-08ABM
Podcast or video15902023-03-23
Comparison7412026-09-14Content marketing, ABM
Template or tool4302025-09-16SEO

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page uplandsoftware.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name SEO (20); 0 name its categories the models place it in. 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.

Names read as Upland Qvidian

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Upland Qvidian; a claim can dispute any of them.
Qvidian 18Qvidian (Upland) 4Qvidian (by Upland) 1Qvidian (now Upland Qvidian) 1Qvidian/Uplvand 1RocketDocs / Qvidian 1

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The company

Upland Qvidian is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
AI-powered RFP response and proactive sales proposal creation software to win new business faster.
Customers named
NetApp
Not stated on the pages read
Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Upland Qvidian's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: uplandsoftware.com, uplandsoftware.com/adestra/pricing, trust.uplandsoftware.com, uplandsoftware.com/products, uplandsoftware.com/objectiflune/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Upland Qvidian 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 Upland Qvidian, 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.
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