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BQE CORE

13Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

7 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. BQE CORE was named 5 times in PSA, where BigTime led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business44 of 97

under the label threshold

Mid-market49 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise56 of 109

under the label threshold

In psa · 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 BQE CORE 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
Professional services automation	Receivables and billing	0%	49 of 99	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by BigTime at 29%

Movement

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Other Strong Options: ... BQE Core - Offers 200+ reports including P&L statements” MiniMax M2.5 · PSA · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“It is considered one of the top PSA software tools for 2026.” Llama 4 Maverick · PSA · paraphrase 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.

“Productive says to skip it when finance, not project managers, are the primary users.” Perplexity Sonar · PSA · negative prompt · soft negative

“Some users report lag and a non-intuitive user interface” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PSA · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BQE CORE, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BQE CORE was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BigTime9 of 133Not among the top eight

Accelo7 of 132Not among the top eight

Scoro7 of 130Not among the top eight

Kantata6 of 131Not among the top eight

Productive5 of 131Not among the top eight

Certinia Professional Services Cloud4 of 130Not among the top eight

Rocketlane3 of 131Not among the top eight

Replicon3 of 130Not among the top eight

Wrike3 of 130Not among the top eight

Syncro2 of 131Not 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 BQE CORE. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named BQE CORE and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

scoro.com10

guideflow.com8

productive.io8

teamwork.com8

bigtime.net6

g2.com6

learn.g2.com6

kantata.com5

softwareadvice.com5

rocketlane.com4

No domain is on file for BQE CORE, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

scoro.com/blog/psa-software-examples9

guideflow.com/blog/professional-services-automation-software8

productive.io/blog/best-psa-software7

learn.g2.com/best-professional-services-automation-software6

teamwork.com/blog/professional-services-automation-software6

g2.com/categories/professional-services-automation5

kantata.com/blog/article/best-professional-services-automation-software5

softwareadvice.com/category/4135-professional-services-automation5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where BQE CORE 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: 4,400 a month (“bqe core”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 52 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 49 of 99 in PSA

Segment leader

29%

BigTime

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 13 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.

Names read as BQE CORE

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as BQE CORE; a claim can dispute any of them.

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

where BQE CORE 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 BQE CORE, 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.