Small business=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 85 → 105 of 106
1 category · RankedWatershed
84Judge labels
18First choices
25Negative labels
14 / 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
33% in ESG and carbon reporting for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 110 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 23% of its 30 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Watershed →By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
Small business110 of 110
0%19 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market5 of 110
3%30 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 86
33%35 labels
endorsed leader
In esg and carbon reporting · 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 Watershed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESG and carbon reporting | Equity and corporate | 3% | 5 of 110 | 23% | 30 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Watershed held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · ESG and carbon reporting · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 15 → 5 of 96
Enterprise▲+13Since September 2026: 20% → 33%, +13 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
33%from 20% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 3 pointsRank 2 of 75, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESG and carbon reporting | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 5 of 110 |
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 Watershed 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 Watershed 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct14 labels4
Paraphrase24 labels12
Comparative23 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labels1
Scale-constrained7 labels1
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative84 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 19 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.
“Choose Watershed or Persefoni if: Your primary immediate pain point is calculating Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions accurately” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative prompt · first choice
“It is the current market leader for mid-market to enterprise. It excels at automating carbon accounting” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest focusing on vendors like Greenly, Novisto, Tracera, or Watershed” MiniMax M2.5 · ESG and carbon reporting · scale prompt · first choice
“Climate/carbon specialists like Watershed, Greenly, Normative, and SINAI are better when the priority is emissions measurement” Perplexity Sonar · ESG and carbon reporting · comparative 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.
“What to Avoid - Watershed — Excellent but typically over $50K–$250K/year; better suited for large enterprises” Kimi K2 · ESG and carbon reporting · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“rather than self-serve platforms (like Watershed, which assumes you have an in-house expert to run the strategy)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · direct prompt · soft negative
“built for large corporations and carry five-figure price tags and long sales cycles” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · budget prompt · soft negative
“Watershed and Persefoni roughly 55,000 to 250,000 US dollars a year” Muse Glimmer 30B · ESG and carbon reporting · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Watershed, over the 84 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Watershed was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Watershed, over the 84 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Watershed 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 Watershed. 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 82 of the 84 answers that named Watershed and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
onestopesg.com47
g2.com26
pulsora.com26
coolset.com24
guideflow.com24
persefoni.com24
fanruan.com23
linkedin.com23
watershed.comYour site23
techtarget.com21
238 of the 261 domain citations in answers naming Watershed came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
watershed.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Watershed takes 3% of first choices and Greenly takes 36%.ShowHide
Search and answers
watershed.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Watershed takes 3% of first choices and Greenly takes 36%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “esg reporting software”
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not in the top ten
Position for “esg reporting platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 110,000 a month (“watershed”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6,800 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 10,897 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 656 · 96 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,163
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 18 clicks and $111 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
3%
rank 5 of 110 in ESG and carbon reporting
Segment leader
36%
Greenly
- First choices
- 18 across its categories
- Named in
- 84 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 82 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 watershed.com
594
subdomains included
Content
485
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
24 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 240 | 13 | 2026-09-22 | ESG and carbon reporting | |
| Conference or event | 160 | 18 | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Case study | 52 | 0 | 2023-06-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 17 | 0 | 2026-01-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 15 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-08 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-28Building assurance ready csrd reporting conference or event
- 2026-10-27Energy management strategy conference or event
- 2026-10-21Ai scope 3 management conference or event
- 2026-10-20Watershed finance demo october conference or event
- 2026-10-15Multi framework reporting demo october conference or event
- 2026-10-142027 policy strategy conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page watershed.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.
Follow Watershed
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The company
Watershed is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Watershed is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The sustainability AI platform
- For
- Enterprise, Mid-market
- Certifications
- Named a Leader in The Verdantix Green Quadrant™: ESG & Sustainability Reporting Software, 2025
- Customers named
- CanvaDelivery HeroPalo Alto NetworksGoogle CloudMedtronicBurtone.l.f. BeautyHenry Schein
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Watershed's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: watershed.com, trust.watershed.com, watershed.com/platform, watershed.com/customers, watershed.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Watershed'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 Watershed, 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 Watershed by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Watershed 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 Watershed, 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.