Independent survey of 251 sales and marketing professionals validates Everstage’s AI-first platform across two of five Sales Compensation Management leadership categories
Everstage, the AI-first Revenue Transformation platform built for RevOps, Finance, and Sales leaders, announced it has been named both Intelligence & Innovation Leader and Human Empowerment Leader in the IT Brand Pulse 2026 Sales Compensation Management Brand Leader Survey.
“Innovation in this category is no longer about better calculation engines – it is about giving every revenue leader an AI-first system of intelligence that connects planning, quoting, and incentives in one place,” – Siva Rajamani, CEO, Everstage
The independent survey of 251 sales and marketing professionals evaluated vendors across five leadership categories. Everstage secured the top position in two categories: Intelligence & Innovation (31.36% of votes) and Human Empowerment (37.45% of votes) — the highest single-category vote share earned by any vendor evaluated.
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The recognition extends a growing streak of third-party validation for Everstage, including Strong Performer status in Forrester’s The Forrester Wave™: Sales Performance Management (Q1 2025), being voted the highest-rated Sales Compensation software in G2’s recent Top 20 Sales Software rankings, top customer ratings on Gartner Peer Insights, and a leading position in Capterra user-review rankings..
“Innovation in this category is no longer about better calculation engines – it is about giving every revenue leader an AI-first system of intelligence that connects planning, quoting, and incentives in one place,” said Siva Rajamani. “Winning Intelligence & Innovation tells us the market recognizes what we’ve been building. Winning Human Empowerment tells us we’re building it the right way – around the people who run revenue operations every day, not around the spreadsheets they’ve been forced to inherit.”
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The IT Brand Pulse survey asked respondents to vote across five categories: Market Leadership, Intelligence & Innovation, Creativity & Expression, Accuracy & Trust, and Human Empowerment. Everstage was the only vendor to lead in two categories.
The recognition follows a year of significant platform expansion for Everstage. In October 2025, the company launched Everstage CPQ, an AI-first Configure, Price, Quote solution designed to create a direct quote-to-commission connection. In August 2025, Everstage introduced Agent Core, an agentic intelligence layer that unifies the company’s Sales Performance Management platform. Earlier in June 2025, Everstage launched Sales Planning to complete the Incentives, Planning, and CPQ suite on a single platform.
“The Human Empowerment category speaks directly to what we hear from customers every day,” said Jose Aleman, VP of GTM Excellence at Everstage. “RevOps and Finance teams are tired of managing calculation tickets and reconciling shadow spreadsheets. They want reps to self-serve, plans to be transparent, and leadership to trust the numbers. That’s what AI-first looks like in practice – not a chatbot layered onto legacy infrastructure, but an end-to-end system that gives every stakeholder the answers they need.”
Everstage customers include Wiley, Trimble, Notion, Diligent, Thoughtworks, Postman, and Gray Media. The company’s Crystal Commission Forecasting feature has also been independently associated with 10–25% revenue growth for customers using it, according to research published by Everstage in May 2025.
