2 categories · RankediDeals
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual data rooms | Equity and corporate | 25% | 1 of 48 | 4% | 46 | accepted challenger | |
| Board portals | Equity and corporate | 0% | 43 of 50 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 49% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated iDeals across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“often positioned as a strong *overall* choice, with broad use across M&A, fundraising, and life sciences, and a high review score in one comparison” Perplexity Sonar · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · first choice
“Often positioned as a strong all-around choice for teams that want a user-friendly VDR with broad functionality and more transparent pricing” GPT-5.4 mini · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · first choice
“The mid-market leaders (iDeals, FirmEx, FirmRoom, SecureDocs, Papermark) offer strong security and features at flat-rate pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Virtual data rooms · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend iDeals if your priority is a broadly trusted, secure, and straightforward M&A due diligence data room” Perplexity Sonar · Virtual data rooms · paraphrase 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.
“iDeals frequently appears in negative discussions regarding its business practices and administrative friction.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual data rooms · negative prompt · soft negative
“it often draws caution due to its pricing structure and customer service reputation” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Board portals · negative prompt · soft negative
“Some concerns (though generally well-reviewed) - Pricing concerns” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Virtual data rooms · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as iDeals, over the 108 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and iDeals was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 105 of the 108 answers that named iDeals and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
428 of the 428 domain citations in answers naming iDeals came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where iDeals stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“ideals”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 124,212 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,877 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,990 · 68 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 917
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 9 clicks and $55 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- Named in
- 108 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 105 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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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 145 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 11 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page idealsboard.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. 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 iDeals
Follow iDeals
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
iDeals is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a verifiably secure and affordable board management software
- For
- nonprofits, corporations, and advisory boards
- Price stated
- Simple, transparent pricing for every board idealsboard.com
- Free plan or trial
- start a free trial idealsboard.com
- Integrations claimed
- 4 idealsboard.com/integrations
- Certifications
- ISO 27001ISO 27701ISO 27017SOC 2SOC 3HIPAAGDPRSOC 1/ISAE 3402
- Customers named
- Benjamin ErgasDejan JelisavacNick Mills
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, hosting
What iDeals's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: idealsboard.com, idealsboard.com/pricing, idealsboard.com/security, idealsboard.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
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 iDeals'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 iDeals, 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 iDeals by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where iDeals 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 iDeals, 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 iDeals is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
AI models recommend iDeals first in Virtual data rooms 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.
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.