Small business▼−4Since September 2026: 6% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 5 → 8 of 63
1 category · RankedPilot
28Judge labels
2First choices
3Negative labels
11 / 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.
Best standing
4% in AI accounting assistants for small business buyers
Rank 31 of 85 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 67
4%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market31 of 85
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise34 of 100
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In ai accounting assistants · 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 Pilot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI accounting assistants | Accounting and close | 0% | 31 of 85 | 25% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Pilot held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · AI accounting assistants · by segment
Mid-market=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 66 → 29 of 72
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 57 → 48 of 87
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI accounting assistants | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 66 → 31 of 85 |
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 Pilot 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 Pilot 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct5 labels1
Paraphrase10 labels1
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.
“If you prefer outsourcing bookkeeping entirely with AI assistance → Pilot” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · direct prompt · alternative
“Pilot / Ramp AI: If your primary need is AP/Bookkeeping automation” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI accounting assistants · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“🥈 Strong Alternative: Pilot” Kimi K2 · AI accounting assistants · 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.
“Skip premium AI bookkeeping services like Pilot if budget is your top concern” GPT-5.4 mini · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · hard negative
“some AI accounting vendors have shut down (Truewind, Pilot)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Pilot, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pilot was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Pilot, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pilot 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 Pilot. 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 23 of the 28 answers that named Pilot and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
intuit.com12
resources.rework.com12
articsledge.com8
fast.io8
rillet.com8
ramp.com7
fritz.ai6
xero.com6
booke.ai5
dualentry.com5
Seventy-seven of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming Pilot came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
pilot.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Pilot takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
pilot.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Pilot takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai accounting tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ai bookkeeping tool”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 450,000 a month (“pilot”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 277,700 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 166,189 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 19,667 · 718 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,108
- Paid Google search
- 10 searches its ads show for, about 47 clicks and $1,323 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 31 of 85 in AI accounting assistants
Segment leader
22%
Sage Intacct
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 23 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 pilot.com
3,945
subdomains included
Content
1,223
counted in the table below
Documentation
2
Product · Integration
15 · 1,945
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 462 | 79 | 2026-09-28 | Cap table management, Accounting software | |
| Glossary or explainer | 435 | 4 | 2026-08-03 | Revenue recognition, Accounting software | |
| Comparison | 91 | 25 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 83 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 50 | 4 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 33 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 32 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 30 | 3 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Podcast or video | 5 | 0 | 2025-12-04 | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Collective alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-28Multi unit franchise bookkeeping report or ebook
- 2026-09-28Startup guide to california franchise tax blog
- 2026-09-26Franchise bookkeeping cost report or ebook
- 2026-09-26Franchise chart of accounts blog
- 2026-09-25How to file your delaware franchise tax on time blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pilot.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.
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The company
Pilot is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Pilot is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Bookkeeping & Accounting Services for Startups & Small Businesses
- For
- startups and small businesses
- Price stated
- Essentials $99/month; Core starts at $299/month billed annually; Bookkeeping custom; For Single Member LLCs starts at $1,000+ /year billed annually; For Partnerships and S-Corps starts at $2,000+ /year billed annually; For C-Corps starts at $2,450+ /year billed annually; CFO Basic starts at $1,750/month billed annually; CFO Essentials starts at $3,150/month billed annually; CFO Custom starts at $5,250/month billed annually; COO Starter starts at $750 one-time payment; COO Essentials starts at $850/month; Stock Administration $399/hr; R&D Tax Credit 20% pilot.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 99/month pilot.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- start FREE TRIAL pilot.com
- Integrations claimed
- 10000 pilot.com/customers
- Customers named
- Jay BoyerKatie SpiesIbaRavi RajFacktor HealthcareCommons ClinicOptimalAIPassage AI
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What Pilot's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: pilot.com, pilot.com/pricing, pilot.com/solutions/ai, pilot.com/customers, pilot.com/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 Pilot'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 Pilot, 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 Pilot by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Pilot 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 Pilot, 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.