Employee listening software: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank employee listening software by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Platforms used to collect employee feedback, run surveys, measure engagement, and surface workforce sentiment to HR leaders. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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When buyers consult AI engines about Employee listening software, Culture Amp emerges as the leader with a 25% visibility score, making it the most frequently mentioned brand. Glint and Leapsome follow as other notable contenders in this category, frequently appearing in suggestions delivered by AI engines.
The rankings of these brands are largely influenced by sources like eletive.com, leapsome.com, and feedbackpulse.com. These sites, often aggregators or professional reviews, heavily inform AI models by providing structured and up-to-date information. Their visibility across platforms indicates trust and reliance by AI engines when making recommendations.
For a buyer, this highlights the importance of recent reviews and third-party validations in the decision-making process. AI engines value topical authority and prefer sources with specialized insights, suggesting that paying close attention to the most recent and well-regarded reviews is crucial in selecting the best brand from this list.
At a glance
What we observed in this category
Culture Amp and Glint share the top rank with identical visibility scores of 25.0%, each more than five times the category average of 4.4%. Both hold a composite score of 17.5, well clear of the next ranked brand, Leapsome, at 15.0. The gap matters because the two leading brands doubled their visibility from 12.5% in the prior period, signalling that Google AI Mode is consolidating its employee listening narrative around a very small set of names.
Leapsome presents the clearest divergence between visibility and citation in this category. It holds zero visibility yet a 50.0% citation rate, the highest citation figure across all ranked brands, producing a composite score of 15.0 that places it third overall. By contrast, Culture Amp and Glint hold 25.0% visibility each but 0.0% citation, meaning AI surfaces them frequently by name but does not link out to their domain, a pattern repeated across Officevibe, 15Five, and Motivosity.
Every brand in the top ten lists Google AI Mode as its top engine, confirming the audit is essentially a single-engine picture. The top cited sources include eletive.com, leapsome.com, feedbackpulse.com, gartner.com, and hrfuture.net, suggesting Google AI Mode draws on a mix of specialist HR publishers, analyst content, and niche comparison sites rather than the vendor domains themselves. YouTube also appears in the cited sources list, indicating video content contributes to AI answers in this category.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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Culture Amp 12% → 25% · rank #1 → #1+12pp
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Glint 12% → 25% · rank #2 → #2+12pp
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15Five 0% → 12% · rank #9 → #5+12pp
Biggest visibility fallers
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Perceptyx 25% → 0% · rank #5 → #7-25pp
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Leapsome 12% → 0% · rank #3 → #3-12pp
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Workday Peakon Employee Voice 12% → 0% · rank #6 → #16-12pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
cultureamp.com
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25% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Culture Amp leads with 25.0% visibility, nearly six times the 4.4% category average, but holds 0.0% citation, meaning AI names it without linking to its domain. |
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| 2 |
glintinc.com
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25% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Glint matches Culture Amp exactly at 25.0% visibility and 0.0% citation, giving it an identical composite score of 17.5 and joint first position in the category. |
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| 3 |
leapsome.com
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0% | 50% | Google AI Mode |
Leapsome ranks third despite zero visibility because its 50.0% citation rate, the highest in the dataset, is enough to generate a composite score of 15.0. |
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| 4 |
officevibe.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Officevibe sits at 12.5% visibility and 0.0% citation, producing a composite score of 8.8, roughly half that of the joint leaders and consistent with the mid-tier cluster. |
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| 5 |
15five.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
15Five is the biggest rank mover in the top five, climbing from rank 9 to rank 5 after gaining 12.5 visibility points from a previous base of zero. |
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| 6 |
motivosity.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
perceptyx.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
achievers.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
vantagecircle.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
surveymonkey.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
workleap.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
weekdone.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
qualtrics.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
lattice.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
worktango.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
workday.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
quantumworkplace.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
beekeeper.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
engagedly.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
sparrowapp.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on employee listening software, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer. More on visibility →
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence, different from being named. More on citation rate →
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps. How AI engines pick sources →
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically. How AI search ranking works →
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Frequently asked about employee listening software AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in employee listening software?
Culture Amp and Glint share the top position, each at 25.0% visibility and a composite score of 17.5, well above the category average of 4.4%.
Which brand has the highest citation rate in this category?
Leapsome holds a 50.0% citation rate, the highest in the dataset, even though its visibility score has dropped to zero in the current period.
What sources does Google AI Mode cite most for employee listening software research?
The top cited sources include eletive.com, leapsome.com, feedbackpulse.com, gartner.com, hrfuture.net, and youtube.com, pointing to a mix of niche HR publishers and analyst content.
Which brands saw the biggest visibility changes in the latest period?
Culture Amp and Glint each gained 12.5 visibility points, while Perceptyx lost 25.0 points and fell from rank 5 to rank 7 with zero current visibility.
Is there a gap between which brands AI names and which brands AI cites?
Yes. Culture Amp, Glint, Officevibe, 15Five, and Motivosity all have visibility above zero but 0.0% citation, meaning AI mentions them without linking to their domains.
Which engine dominates AI visibility for employee listening software?
Every brand in the top ten lists Google AI Mode as its top engine, making this effectively a single-engine category in the current audit.