Every category where a model named Certent Disclosure Management 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
SEC and disclosure reporting	Accounting and close	22%	3 of 63	2%	47	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Certent Disclosure Management 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 Certent Disclosure Management 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	1	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	1	0	5
Mistral Small	2	0	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	4	0	0	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	3	1	0	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	3	2	0	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	1	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	3	2	0	0	5

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

Direct24 labels12

Paraphrase25 labels9

Comparative28 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels10

Scale-constrained16 labels3

Negative17 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative131 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 44 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.

“Start with Certent or IRIS CARBON if you need a full disclosure management platform with workflow and collaboration features” Kimi K2 · Disclosure reporting · budget prompt · first choice

“Certent is regularly positioned as the value lane alternative to Workiva... the price point sits meaningfully below Workiva” Muse Glimmer 30B · Disclosure reporting · direct prompt · first choice

“Certent Disclosure Management and IRIS CARBON are the two best-value platforms recommended by industry analysts” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Disclosure reporting · budget prompt · first choice

“Certent Disclosure Management and DFIN ActiveDisclosure are the strongest "mid-market-first" choices” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Disclosure reporting · direct 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.

“Cautiously evaluate Certent if your team is looking for a modern, cloud-native platform” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Disclosure reporting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Certent Disclosure Management, over the 131 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Certent Disclosure Management was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workiva129 of 13154Compare →

DFIN ActiveDisclosure107 of 13110Compare →

IRIS CARBON86 of 1319Compare →

Toppan Merrill Bridge62 of 1310Not among the top eight

Arelle15 of 1312Not among the top eight

EDGARsuite11 of 1310Not among the top eight

FilePoint10 of 1311Not among the top eight

ActiveDisclosure10 of 1310Not among the top eight

Toppan Merrill10 of 1310Not among the top eight

CCH Tagetik8 of 1310Not 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 Certent Disclosure Management. 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 130 of the 131 answers that named Certent Disclosure Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cfoshortlist.com116

houseblend.io102

zipdo.co70

gitnux.org62

dfinsolutions.com50

grctools.net49

g2.com48

worldmetrics.org48

wifitalents.com39

insightsoftware.com32

616 of the 616 domain citations in answers naming Certent Disclosure Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cfoshortlist.com/reports/sec-reporting-software115

houseblend.io/articles/sec-filing-software-platforms-pricing-compliance97

cfoshortlist.com/reports/best-disclosure-management-software86

grctools.net/best-disclosure-management-software-for-sec-reporting49

houseblend.io/articles/pdfs/sec-filing-software-platforms-pricing-compliance.pdf47

gitnux.org/best/sec-filing-software43

zipdo.co/best/sec-reporting-software41

dfinsolutions.com/products/activedisclosure39

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

certent.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Certent Disclosure Management takes 22% of first choices and Workiva takes 32%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “sec and disclosure reporting platforms”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best sec and disclosure reporting platform”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 20 a month (“certent disclosure management”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Its company's site: certent.com shared with Certent's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 2,311 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 396 · 13 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 789
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

22%

rank 3 of 63 in disclosure reporting

Segment leader

32%

Workiva

First choices: 34 across its categories
Named in: 131 answers
Its own site cited: in 130 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.

Names read as Certent Disclosure Management

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

Certent Disclosure Management (by insightsoftware) 4Certent Disclosure Management (insightsoftware) 4Certent Disclosure Management (InsightSoftware) 3Certent Disclosure Management (CDM) 1

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The company

Certent is the company behind Certent Disclosure Management.

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On record

Company records

Also from Certent: Certent Equity Management

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Equity management that grows with you
certent.com
For: private companies; public companies; brokers & partners
certent.com
Customers named: Amplion Clinical CommunicationsInternational Seaways, Inc.
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Certent Disclosure Management's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: certent.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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where Certent Disclosure Management 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 Certent Disclosure Management, 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 Certent Disclosure Management 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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Certent Disclosure Management is among the products AI models recommend first in SEC and disclosure reporting 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://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/sec-and-disclosure-reporting/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/certent-disclosure-management--sec-and-disclosure-reporting-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in SEC and disclosure reporting, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/sec-and-disclosure-reporting/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/certent-disclosure-management--sec-and-disclosure-reporting-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in SEC and disclosure reporting, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/sec-and-disclosure-reporting/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/certent-disclosure-management--sec-and-disclosure-reporting-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in SEC and disclosure reporting, October 2026 Edition, Finance 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 SEC and disclosure reporting 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.