Every category where a model named Wave Connect 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
Event lead capture apps	Marketing	8%	3 of 70	5%	22	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	0	3
Grok 4.20	0	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	4	0	0	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	1	1	0	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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase11 labels4

Comparative12 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained16 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative10 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative65 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 13 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.

“Wave Connect and Captello are the two named in the recent review as the only platforms backing their security posture with named, audited certifications.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Event lead capture · negative prompt · first choice

“Better Alternatives to Consider ... Wave Connect — pay-per-lead model ($10/enriched lead), no per-user fees” Kimi K2 · Event lead capture · negative prompt · first choice

“I would recommend Wave Connect as the best default trade show badge scanning and lead retrieval tool” Perplexity Sonar · Event lead capture · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the best lead capture software for trade shows in 2026: an AI Badge Scanner that works at any show” Muse Glimmer 30B · Event lead capture · comparative 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.

“Odd pricing structure ($10/lead); no handheld rental, app-only; not ideal for high-volume scanning.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Event lead capture · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Wave Connect, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wave Connect was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Blinq43 of 659Compare →

iCapture36 of 651Compare →

Cvent LeadCapture29 of 652Not among the top eight

Popl29 of 650Compare →

Captello27 of 653Not among the top eight

Mobly Capture25 of 657Compare →

momencio21 of 651Compare →

B2Brain17 of 653Compare →

BoothIQ15 of 656Compare →

Whova12 of 650Not 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 Wave Connect. 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 65 of the 65 answers that named Wave Connect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

b2brain.com55

blinq.me52

mymanagementguide.com43

g2.com41

wavecnct.com41

mobilocard.com38

getmobly.com27

bizzabo.com26

eventify.io24

guideflow.com22

No domain is on file for Wave Connect, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

mymanagementguide.com/top-event-lead-capture-platforms43

blinq.me/blog/best-event-lead-capture-software-202639

mobilocard.com/post/whats-the-best-event-lead-generation-software36

wavecnct.com/blogs/best-tools-lead-capture-trade-shows35

getmobly.com/post/best-event-lead-capture-app27

b2brain.com/blogs/best-app-for-events23

eventify.io/blog/best-lead-retrieval-software21

accelevents.com/blog/7-best-event-lead-capture-software-for-enhanced-lead-generation19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Wave Connect stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 1,300 a month (“wave connect”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 702 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 3 of 70 in event lead capture

Segment leader

23%

Blinq

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 65 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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.

Follow Wave Connect

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.

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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 Wave Connect'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 Wave Connect, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Wave Connect by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Wave Connect 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 Wave Connect, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Wave Connect is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Wave Connect is among the products AI models recommend first in Event lead capture apps this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/event-lead-capture/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/wave-connect--event-lead-capture-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Event lead capture apps, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Event lead capture apps standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/event-lead-capture/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/wave-connect--event-lead-capture-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Event lead capture apps, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Event lead capture apps standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/event-lead-capture/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/wave-connect--event-lead-capture-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Event lead capture apps, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Event lead capture apps standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.