What AI actually recommends, by category
Each leaderboard below is a real measurement, not an opinion: the same seven buyer-intent prompts sent to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, with every brand named in the answers counted. The engines disagree with each other far more than most people expect, and each page shows exactly where.
Categories measured
- What AI recommends for project management software
- What AI recommends for CRM software
- What AI recommends for email marketing software
- What AI recommends for SEO tools
- What AI recommends for website builders
- What AI recommends for accounting software for small business
- What AI recommends for HR software
- What AI recommends for help desk software
- What AI recommends for password managers
- What AI recommends for web hosting providers
- What AI recommends for ecommerce platforms
- What AI recommends for video conferencing software
- What AI recommends for VPN services
- What AI recommends for social media management tools
- What AI recommends for online course platforms
- What AI recommends for appointment scheduling software
- What AI recommends for live chat software
- What AI recommends for online form builders
- What AI recommends for landing page builders
- What AI recommends for time tracking software
- What AI recommends for inventory management software
- What AI recommends for applicant tracking systems
What all of them show together
Pooling every category gives a result worth reading before you look at any single one: the five engines named the same leading brand in every category measured, but agreed on only about a third of the rest of each leaderboard. See the full agreement study — 768 answers, free to reuse with attribution.
How these are produced
Seven category prompts times five engines is 35 live answers per category. Brands are extracted from the raw answer text, then ranked by how many answers named them and how early in each answer they appeared. The full prompt set and scoring rules are published on the methodology page, and the same procedure applied to a single brand produces a full report like this one.
Your category is probably not on this list. A $19 snapshot runs it for your brand specifically, adding brand-level prompts, share of voice, sentiment and the domains AI cites in your category.