Every category where a model named Strac 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 governance platforms	Data platform	12%	2 of 135	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Credo AI at 18%
Data security posture management	Security operations	2%	14 of 105	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview at 18%
Data loss prevention	Security operations	2%	9 of 89	0%	10	accepted challenger	▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AI security platforms	Security operations	0%	190 of 233	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Strac 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 Strac 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	1	5
Perplexity Sonar	3	0	0	3
Grok 4.20	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	1	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	0	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

Direct20 labels9

Paraphrase14 labels7

Comparative19 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labels11

Scale-constrained8 labels3

Negative10 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative85 labels in all, every segment counted; 30 of the 38 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.

“the best starting point is usually Strac because it is described as the most accessible option for small teams” Perplexity Sonar · AI governance · budget prompt · first choice

“Strac (Best Paid Affordable Option for SMBs) ... If you need enforcement/monitoring, Strac edges out for ease.” Grok 4.20 · AI governance · budget prompt · first choice

“Particularly well-suited for small teams (<100 people). It offers modular pricing that scales down” MiniMax M2.5 · AI governance · budget prompt · first choice

“Strac ~ $30-50 per user/year is the most commonly cited accessible option for <100 person teams” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI governance · budget prompt · first choice

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 Strac, over the 85 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Strac was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Credo AI35 of 853Not among the top eight

Forcepoint DLP19 of 851Not among the top eight

OneTrust AI Governance19 of 851Not among the top eight

Microsoft Purview DLP18 of 856Not among the top eight

Lumenova AI18 of 854Not among the top eight

Microsoft Purview18 of 854Not among the top eight

IBM watsonx.governance17 of 850Not among the top eight

Symantec Data Loss Prevention17 of 850Not among the top eight

Qlik Staige15 of 850Not among the top eight

Holistic AI14 of 850Not 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 Strac. 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 85 of the 85 answers that named Strac and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

strac.ioYour site82

infomineo.com38

peoplemanagingpeople.com33

g2.com27

forcepoint.com24

respan.ai18

aiopsschool.com17

gartner.com17

anaconda.com15

venn.com15

204 of the 286 domain citations in answers naming Strac came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

strac.io/blog/best-ai-governance-tools-and-software51

infomineo.com/artificial-intelligence/best-ai-governance-tools-in-2026-top-platforms-compa38

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-ai-governance-tools33

respan.ai/articles/ai-governance-tools18

aiopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ai-governance-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison17

anaconda.com/guides/ai-governance-platform-trust15

g2.com/categories/ai-governance-tools13

clickup.com/blog/ai-governance-tools12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

strac.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Strac takes 12% of first choices and Credo AI takes 18%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ai governance platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “ai governance platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 3,600 a month (“strac”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 26 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 6,518 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,541 · 71 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 420
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

2 ads · 1 image, 1 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2026, as Strac Incorporated, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 2 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1 2

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

12%

rank 2 of 135 in AI governance

Segment leader

18%

Credo AI

First choices: 30 across its categories
Named in: 85 answers
Its own site cited: in 85 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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Addresses on strac.io

1,134

subdomains included

Content

968

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 71

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	688	undated	SASE
Glossary or explainer	199	undated	SIEM
Comparison	57	undated
Template or tool	13	undated
Case study	5	undated
Conference or event	4	undated
Webinar or virtual event	2	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page strac.io 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 Strac

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

Strac is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI-Native Data Security Platform For MCP
strac.io
For: Enterprises & ScaleUps
strac.io
Price stated: Strac is priced to what you actually protect — your surfaces, integrations, data and team. strac.io/pricing
Free plan or trial: Yes. Strac runs a proof of value in your own environment before you commit. strac.io/pricing
Certifications: HIPAAPCI-DSSISO 27001SOC 2CCPAGDPR
Customers named: TriviumSeisZeta
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What Strac's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: strac.io, strac.io/pricing, strac.io/case-studies, strac.io/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 Strac'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 Strac, 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 Strac by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Strac 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 Strac, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Strac is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Strac is among the products AI models recommend first in AI governance platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/ai-governance-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/strac--ai-governance-platforms-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in AI governance platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the AI governance platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/ai-governance-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/strac--ai-governance-platforms-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in AI governance platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the AI governance platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/ai-governance-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/strac--ai-governance-platforms-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in AI governance platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the AI governance platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.