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5 categories · Named, not ranked

ReliaQuest GreyMatter

37Judge labels

2First choices

6Negative labels

12 / 14Models named it

5Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ReliaQuest GreyMatter was named 8 times in AI SOC agents and 4 other categories, where Dropzone AI led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business80 of 93

under the label threshold

Mid-market45 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprise15 of 95

under the label threshold

In ai soc agents · 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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter 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 SOC agents	Security operations	0%	45 of 104	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Dropzone AI at 24%
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	0%	62 of 74	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%
Digital risk protection	Security operations	0%	79 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by UpGuard BreachSight at 22%
Extended detection and response	Security operations	0%	51 of 58	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender XDR at 40%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Managed detection and response	Security operations	0%	43 of 67	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 37%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ReliaQuest GreyMatter 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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter 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	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	0	2
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

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative14 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“It claims to achieve threat containment in under 5 minutes using autonomous multi-agent orchestration.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI SOC agents · comparative prompt · first choice

“Full replacement for L1/L2 analysts | ReliaQuest GreyMatter, 7AI, SentinelOne Autonomous SOC” Kimi K2 · AI SOC agents · comparative prompt · first choice

“ReliaQuest focuses on reducing "noise."” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MDR · 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: "The Enterprise Giants" ... too heavy and expensive for a lean mid-market team.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI SOC agents · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ReliaQuest GreyMatter, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ReliaQuest GreyMatter was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Intezer AI SOC10 of 373Not among the top eight

Dropzone AI8 of 373Not among the top eight

Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response8 of 372Not among the top eight

Torq8 of 371Not among the top eight

SentinelOne Singularity8 of 370Not among the top eight

Sophos MDR7 of 371Not among the top eight

Microsoft Defender XDR6 of 375Not among the top eight

Huntress Managed EDR6 of 373Not among the top eight

Exaforce6 of 371Not among the top eight

Stellar Cyber Open XDR6 of 371Not 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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter. 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 36 of the 37 answers that named ReliaQuest GreyMatter and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

intezer.com17

underdefense.com15

paloaltonetworks.com14

reliaquest.comYour site14

expertinsights.com12

g2.com11

gbhackers.com11

huntress.com11

mdrproviders.io10

sentinelone.com9

110 of the 124 domain citations in answers naming ReliaQuest GreyMatter came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

huntress.com/cybersecurity-insights/managed-detection-response-vendors8

intezer.com/guides/ai-soc/how-to-compare-agentic-soc-platforms7

reliaquest.com/cyber-knowledge/ai-soc-tools7

intezer.com/blog/top-15-ai-soc-platforms-in-20266

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/ai-soc-tools-comparison6

swimlane.com/blog/best-ai-soc-platforms6

eset.com/fileadmin/ESET/INT/Pages/KuppingerCole/ESET_Leadership_Compass_MDR.pdf5

exaforce.com/learning-center/ai-soc/top-ai-soc-platforms5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

reliaquest.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, ReliaQuest GreyMatter takes 0% of first choices and Dropzone AI takes 24%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ai soc agent”

Position for “ai soc agents”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 480 a month (“reliaquest greymatter”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 10 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 10,314 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,821 · 87 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,233
Paid Google search: 5 searches its ads show for, about 2,356 clicks and $20,150 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

63 ads · 37 text, 14 video, 12 image · 24 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2023, as ReliaQuest LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 52 in the year, 11 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 45 of 104 in AI SOC agents

Segment leader

24%

Dropzone AI

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 37 answers
Its own site cited: in 36 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 reliaquest.com

1,504

subdomains included

Content

1,208

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

12 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	628	6	2026-09-23	SIEM, MDR
Podcast or video	343	7	2026-09-23	MFA, EDR
News or press	88	0	2025-07-29	SOAR
Case study	45	0	2026-05-06
Glossary or explainer	34	2	2026-07-22	ASM, XDR
Comparison	31	1	2026-07-22	MDR, XDR
Webinar or virtual event	28	17	2026-10-27	SIEM
Conference or event	7	1	2026-07-15
Report or ebook	2	undated
Template or tool	2	0	2026-02-24

Most recent

2026-10-27The healthcare blind spot how agentic ai finds signal in clinical noise webinar or virtual event
2026-10-08Seeing the agents five steps to governing claude code and claude in the enterprise webinar or virtual event
2026-09-30Agentic red teaming closing the gap between engagements webinar or virtual event
2026-09-24An early look at the future of greymatter webinar or virtual event
2026-09-23Beyond point in time testing 5 use cases for agentic red teaming blog
2026-09-23Fake ndas real money inside the m and a social engineering playbook podcast or video

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page reliaquest.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.

Names read as ReliaQuest GreyMatter

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

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Follow ReliaQuest GreyMatter

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

ReliaQuest GreyMatter is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The Agentic AI Security Operations Platform for Agentic Defense
reliaquest.com
For: security teams
reliaquest.com
Integrations claimed: 300 reliaquest.com
Customers named: Southwest AirlinesJetBlueKKRLowe'sCintasAdientGraphic Packaging InternationalDonnelley Financial Solutions
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting

What ReliaQuest GreyMatter's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: reliaquest.com, reliaquest.com/solutions, reliaquest.com/resources/customer-stories, reliaquest.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter'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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter, 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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ReliaQuest GreyMatter 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 ReliaQuest GreyMatter, 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.