Every category where a model named Proven Optics 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
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	6%	4 of 159	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Proven Optics 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 Proven Optics 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labels3

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“I'd recommend Nicus or Proven Optics as strong Technology Business Management (TBM) software options” Grok 4.1 Fast · IT financial mgmt · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“My Top Recommendation: Proven Optics (ServiceNow-native)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IT financial mgmt · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the top recommendation is Proven Optics” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IT financial mgmt · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“For mid-market organisations that need ServiceNow-native architecture without a full enterprise deployment, it's a credible entry point.” Muse Glimmer 30B · IT financial mgmt · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Proven Optics, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proven Optics was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IBM Apptio5 of 102Not among the top eight

Nicus ITFM Platform5 of 102Not among the top eight

ServiceNow IT Financial Management4 of 101Not among the top eight

IBM Apptio Cloudability4 of 100Not among the top eight

MagicOrange4 of 100Not among the top eight

EZTBM3 of 101Not among the top eight

CloudZero3 of 100Not among the top eight

Anaplan2 of 100Not among the top eight

CostPerform2 of 100Not among the top eight

Nicus Software2 of 100Not 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 Proven Optics. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Proven Optics and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com7

apptio.com6

blog.invgate.com5

costanalyst.ai5

datascienceformanagers.com5

serviceware-se.com5

swanintelligence.com5

worldmetrics.org5

ciopages.com4

devopsschool.com4

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming Proven Optics came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/it-financial-management-tools6

blog.invgate.com/itfm-software5

datascienceformanagers.com/best-technology-business-management-providers5

swanintelligence.com/best-itfm-providers5

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/it-financial-management4

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-it-financial-management-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison4

g2.com/categories/it-financial-management-itfm4

qobra.co/blog/best-financial-management-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

provenoptics.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Proven Optics takes 6% of first choices and Nicus ITFM Platform takes 9%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “it financial management platform”

Position for “it financial management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 170 a month (“proven optics”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 116 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 109 · 7 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 540
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 4 of 159 in IT financial mgmt

Segment leader

Nicus ITFM Platform

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 10 answers
Its own site cited: in 10 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 provenoptics.com

164

subdomains included

Content

144

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

3 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	134	0	2026-01-22	IT financial mgmt
Glossary or explainer	5	0	2021-07-29
Report or ebook	2	undated
Comparison	2	0	2025-06-27
Webinar or virtual event	1	undated

Most recent

2026-01-22A simpler path to it financial management blog
2026-01-07A new chapter for proven optics joining forces with brightfin blog
2025-12-17Stop budgeting like its 1999 why it financial management needs an upgrade in 2026 blog
2025-11-26Smarter campus decisions start with better data how proven optics helps higher ed get there blog
2025-11-14Ais hidden costs what it financial management reveals blog
2025-10-29The most dangerous budget line you cant explain to your cfo blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page provenoptics.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 Proven Optics

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

Proven Optics (now Brightfin, ServiceNow-native) 1

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The company

Proven Optics is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: IT Financial Management solutions built on ServiceNow
provenoptics.com
For: the business
provenoptics.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Proven Optics's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: provenoptics.com, provenoptics.com/solutions, provenoptics.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Proven Optics by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Proven Optics 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 Proven Optics, 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.