Every category where a model named Lightyear 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
Telecom expense management	Spend and procurement	12%	2 of 89	3%	30	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct18 labels5

Paraphrase7 labels5

Comparative20 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels4

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative6 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 21 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.

“Highly rated for mid-market and SMB companies, offering robust telecom expense management (TEM) with low service tiers that make it accessible for mid-sized businesses.” Mistral Small · Telecom expense mgmt · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I would recommend Lightyear if you want a TEM/wireless expense management platform that is explicitly positioned for *SMB and mid-market* organizations” Perplexity Sonar · Telecom expense mgmt · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Lightyear is a strong choice because it connects procurement, inventory tracking, and expense management in a unified platform” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Telecom expense mgmt · direct prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for Modern Automation & AI-First Features: Lightyear ... is an exceptional choice.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Telecom expense mgmt · 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.

“it has far fewer reviews, so I'd treat it as a newer option rather than the safest default” GPT-5.4 mini · Telecom expense mgmt · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Lightyear, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lightyear was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Tangoe One Telecom51 of 719Not among the top eight

Calero50 of 716Compare →

Sakon38 of 713Compare →

Genuity27 of 7113Compare →

Brightfin24 of 712Compare →

vCom Solutions16 of 712Compare →

Zoho Expense13 of 713Not among the top eight

Cimpl12 of 711Not among the top eight

Mindglobal11 of 712Compare →

Tellennium10 of 712Not 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 Lightyear. 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 71 of the 71 answers that named Lightyear and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com43

g2.com34

lightyear.aiYour site33

thectoclub.com33

use.expensify.com26

gartner.com23

getapp.com23

cybernews.com22

mindglobal.com22

sociumit.com22

248 of the 281 domain citations in answers naming Lightyear came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

capterra.com/resources/best-telecom-expense-management-software-review-analysis36

thectoclub.com/tools/best-telecom-expense-management-software33

lightyear.ai/blogs/best-telecom-expense-management-software30

use.expensify.com/resource-center/guides/telecom-expense-management-solutions26

guideflow.com/blog/telecom-expense-software21

softwaresuggest.com/telecom-expense-management-software20

uplandsoftware.com/cimpl/technology-expense-management/best-telecom-expense-management-sof20

gartner.com/reviews/market/telecom-expense-management-services-global19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

lightyear.ai ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Lightyear takes 12% of first choices and Genuity takes 19%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “telecom expense management platform”

Position for “telecom expense management platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 33,100 a month (“lightyear”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 17,745 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 33,552 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 9,609 · 356 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,853
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

42 ads · 39 text, 3 video · 22 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2022, as Lightyear AI Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 28 in the year, 14 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 2 of 89 in telecom expense mgmt

Segment leader

19%

Genuity

First choices: 14 across its categories
Named in: 71 answers
Its own site cited: in 71 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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Addresses on lightyear.ai

2,213

subdomains included

Content

584

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

27 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Glossary or explainer	241	undated	Expense management, Telecom expense mgmt
Blog	165	undated	Expense management, Telecom expense mgmt
Comparison	134	undated
Webinar or virtual event	18	undated
Case study	14	undated
Report or ebook	7	undated
Conference or event	5	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page lightyear.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 October 5, 2026.

Follow Lightyear

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

Lightyear is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The first agentic platform for enterprise telecom; Telecom’s system of action; one connected platform that brings your telecom data, workflows, and AI agents together to automate work across the lifecycle.
lightyear.ai
For: enterprises
lightyear.ai
Customers named: EveronOktaAlo YogaBig-D ConstructionElauwitAeconMSA SafetyCampus Technologies
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Lightyear's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: lightyear.ai, lightyear.ai/solutions/wan, lightyear.ai/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Lightyear'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 Lightyear, 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 Lightyear by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Lightyear 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 Lightyear, 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 Lightyear 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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Lightyear is among the products AI models recommend first in Telecom expense management 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/spend/telecom-expense-management/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/lightyear--telecom-expense-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Telecom expense management, October 2026 Edition, Finance 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 Telecom expense management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/spend/telecom-expense-management/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/lightyear--telecom-expense-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Telecom expense management, October 2026 Edition, Finance 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 Telecom expense management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/spend/telecom-expense-management/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/lightyear--telecom-expense-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Telecom expense management, 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 Telecom expense management 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.