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PreEmptive Dotfuscator

16Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
7 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. PreEmptive Dotfuscator was named 7 times in App shielding, where Appdome led with 33%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In app shielding · 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 PreEmptive Dotfuscator 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Application shieldingDeveloper platform0%26 of 870%7under 10 labels · led by Appdome at 33%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PreEmptive Dotfuscator 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 PreEmptive Dotfuscator across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Strong focus on specific languages (.NET, Java, JavaScript) with repeatable build processes” Kimi K2 · App shielding · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you are protecting a .NET/Java app or a web app → PreEmptive or Jscrambler” DeepSeek V4 Flash · App shielding · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose PreEmptive if: You have an existing CI/CD pipeline” GLM 4.7 FlashX · App shielding · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PreEmptive Dotfuscator, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PreEmptive Dotfuscator was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Appdome16 of 162Not among the top eight
Promon SHIELD8 of 161Not among the top eight
Guardsquare DexGuard / iXGuard7 of 162Not among the top eight
DexGuard5 of 162Not among the top eight
Verimatrix Application Shielding4 of 160Not among the top eight
Zimperium4 of 160Not among the top eight
AppSealing3 of 162Not among the top eight
Approov3 of 160Not among the top eight
DoveRunner AppSealing3 of 160Not among the top eight
Jscrambler3 of 160Not 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 PreEmptive Dotfuscator. 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 16 of the 16 answers that named PreEmptive Dotfuscator and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com13
preemptive.comYour site11
gartner.com10
luciq.ai10
worldmetrics.org10
zipdo.co9
gitnux.org6
axiobench.com5
geeksframework.com5
nhimg.org5

Seventy-three of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming PreEmptive Dotfuscator came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

preemptive.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, PreEmptive Dotfuscator takes 0% of first choices and Appdome takes 33%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “app shielding tool”
4
Position for “app shielding tools”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
20 a month (“preemptive dotfuscator”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
0 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 25,988 a month
Searches its site ranks for
850 · 61 in the top three
Sites linking to it
1,523
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
86 ads · 48 text, 32 image, 6 video · 19 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2022, as PreEmptive Solutions, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 53 in the year, 33 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 26 of 87 in app shielding
Segment leader
33%
Appdome
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
16 answers
Its own site cited
in 16 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 preemptive.com
430
subdomains included
Content
398
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
7 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog380undatedApp shielding, Data masking
Glossary or explainer7undatedCNAPP
Comparison3undated
Template or tool3undated
News or press2undated
Webinar or virtual event1undated
Conference or event1undated
Report or ebook1undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page preemptive.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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as PreEmptive Dotfuscator

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as PreEmptive Dotfuscator; a claim can dispute any of them.
PreEmptive 4PreEmptive (Dotfuscator, DashO, JSDefender) 1PreEmptive (Dotfuscator/Protection for .NET & Java) 1

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The company

PreEmptive Dotfuscator is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Shield .NET, MAUI, ASP.NET core with layered obfuscation and runtime protections
For
Secure your .NET MAUI applications with Dotfuscator.
Price stated
Starter, Team, Group, Enterprise; Request a Quote preemptive.com/pricing
Free plan or trial
Start Your Free Trial preemptive.com
Customers named
Surgical TheatreDME ForensicsSurgical TheaterProSearchBayshore Networks/N softwareInventaGlobalMed
Not stated on the pages read
Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What PreEmptive Dotfuscator's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: preemptive.com, preemptive.com/pricing, preemptive.com/products/dasho, preemptive.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where PreEmptive Dotfuscator 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 PreEmptive Dotfuscator, 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.
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