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1 category · Named, not ranked

CISO Assistant

3Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. CISO Assistant was named 2 times in GRC, where Vanta led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business12 of 71

under the label threshold

Mid-market16 of 77

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In grc · 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 CISO Assistant 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
GRC platforms	Security operations	2%	16 of 77	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Vanta at 14%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CISO Assistant yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CISO Assistant across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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 want a modern, beautiful, and completely free GRC tool (and can self-host): Go with CISO Assistant.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · GRC · budget prompt · first choice

“If you need full-featured open source: Evaluate CISO Assistant or Eramba” GLM 4.7 FlashX · GRC · budget 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 CISO Assistant, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CISO Assistant was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SimpleRisk3 of 31Not in the top three

Eramba3 of 30Not in the top three

RealCISO3 of 30Not in the top three

Hyperproof2 of 30Not in the top three

Open Risk Register2 of 30Not in the top three

Ethicontrol1 of 31Not in the top three

Airtable1 of 30Not in the top three

Baserow1 of 30Not in the top three

CIS CSAT1 of 30Not in the top three

Comp AI1 of 30Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 CISO Assistant. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 3 answers that named CISO Assistant and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

baserow.io2

brightdefense.com2

infosecflow.com2

openriskregister.org2

realciso.io2

reddit.com2

simplerisk.com2

capterra.com1

eramba.org1

opengrc.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming CISO Assistant came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

baserow.io/blog/open-source-grc-tools2

brightdefense.com/resources/grc-tools-for-smbs-and-startups2

infosecflow.com/blog/open-source-grc-comparison2

openriskregister.org/alternatives/open-source-grc-tool2

realciso.io/grc-platform/for-small-business2

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ay5u9v/what_grc_software_is_suitable_in_features_and2

simplerisk.com/2

opengrc.com/1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as CISO Assistant

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CISO Assistant; a claim can dispute any of them.

CISO Assistant (by Intuitem) 1

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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 CISO Assistant'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 CISO Assistant, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at cisoassistant.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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