Small business▼−49Since September 2026: 60% → 10%, −49 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 60% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 39 pointsRank 1 → 4 of 79
2 categories · RankedClockwork
55Judge labels
12First choices
3Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
11% in FP&A platforms for small business buyers
Rank 8 of 74 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Clockwork →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 80
11%30 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market8 of 74
4%10 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise38 of 57
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In fp&a platforms · 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 Clockwork 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP&A platforms | Planning and analysis | 4% | 8 of 74 | 0% | 10 | accepted challenger | ▼−12Since September 2026: 15% → 2%, −12 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Corporate performance management | Planning and analysis | 2% | 16 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Clockwork moved past the floor in one of two categories: FP&A platforms, −12 points to 2%. It held within the floor in the other one.
Best category · FP&A platforms · by segment
Mid-market▼−12Since September 2026: 15% → 2%, −12 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 15% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 2 pointsRank 3 → 13 of 73
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 32 → 35 of 54
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP&A platforms | 15% | 2% | ▼−12Since September 2026: 15% → 2%, −12 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 3 → 8 of 74 |
| Corporate performance ma | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 16 of 99 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Clockwork across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Clockwork across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct9 labels4
Paraphrase4 labels3
Comparative5 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels3
Scale-constrained8 labels2
Negative15 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 16 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.
“Clockwork is the best FP&A software in 2026 — it delivers forecasting, scenario planning, and an AI analyst at transparent SMB pricing” Muse Glimmer 30B · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · first choice
“starting with one of the lower-priced options like Fathom or Clockwork is a practical choice” Mistral Small · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · first choice
“Best for: Hands-off, automated forecasting for startups and small businesses.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Corporate performance ma · budget prompt · first choice
“consider alternative FP&A software tools that are more suitable for small businesses, such as Clockwork, LiveFlow, and Jirav.” Llama 4 Maverick · FP&A platforms · negative 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Clockwork, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Clockwork was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Clockwork, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Clockwork was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Clockwork. 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 55 of the 55 answers that named Clockwork and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
clockwork.aiYour site54
g2.com31
getaleph.com29
golimelight.com27
cubesoftware.com26
drivetrain.ai24
learn.g2.com22
thefinanceweekly.com21
centage.com20
coefficient.io16
216 of the 270 domain citations in answers naming Clockwork came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
clockwork.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Clockwork takes 4% of first choices and Planful takes 20%.ShowHide
Search and answers
clockwork.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Clockwork takes 4% of first choices and Planful takes 20%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “fp&a software”
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not in the top ten
Position for “fp&a platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 27,100 a month (“clockwork”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7,178 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 463 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 191 · 10 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 335
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 8 of 74 in FP&A platforms
Segment leader
20%
Planful
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 55 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 55 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on clockwork.ai
163
subdomains included
Content
118
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
14 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 77 | 6 | 2026-09-16 | Cash flow forecasting, Accounting software | |
| Comparison | 13 | 0 | 2026-03-26 | ||
| Conference or event | 10 | undated | |||
| Case study | 9 | 0 | 2024-03-13 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 3 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2022-02-22 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2022-01-11 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-16Add fpa to cpa firm without hiring blog
- 2026-09-16How to price advisory services blog
- 2026-09-16What one advisory client is worth blog
- 2026-09-15Cash flow forecasting software accounting firms blog
- 2026-08-27Ai agents in finance blog
- 2026-08-262027 budget planning blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page clockwork.ai 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. 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 Clockwork
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Clockwork; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
Clockwork is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Clockwork is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI financial forecasting software for businesses that use QuickBooks, Xero, or Excel.
- For
- Small and mid-sized businesses without a full finance team, plus the fractional CFOs and accounting firms who advise them.
- Price stated
- Business plans start with Predict at $499/month on annual billing ($629 month-to-month). Ultimate is $1,199/month on annual billing ($1,499 month-to-month) and adds multi-entity consolidation. Accounting firm plans start at $799/month. Users are unlimited on every plan. clockwork.ai
- Starting price
- 499 clockwork.ai
- Free plan or trial
- Business plans include a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. clockwork.ai
- Integrations claimed
- 5 clockwork.ai/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC2SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- Thomson ReutersCloudCPAReconciledGeneralCents AccountingProdjektGRP21GeneralCentsSWZLE
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Clockwork's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: clockwork.ai, clockwork.ai/pricing, clockwork.ai/features/reporting, clockwork.ai/case-studies, clockwork.ai/features/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Clockwork'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 Clockwork, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Clockwork by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Clockwork 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 Clockwork, 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.