September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Locked up

Auto Repair Shop Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Shop management software for auto repair businesses covering estimates, work orders, parts, and invoicing. Right now, Tekmetric is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 75 and the #1 spot in 29% of answers. Head-to-head: Tekmetric vs Shop-Ware →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Three models, three different opinions on who leads auto repair software.

Tekmetric sits atop the overall rankings, but that consensus masks real disagreement at the model level: ChatGPT and Gemini both favor Shopmonkey heavily, while Claude rates it just 17.5 and instead treats Shop-Ware as the category reference point at 74.2. Shopmonkey's gap between its ChatGPT score of 77 and its Claude score of 17.5 is the widest single-brand spread in the data, making it the clearest sign that models are drawing on different training signals or source pools for this category. Any brand banking on AI-driven buyer discovery here needs visibility strategies tuned per model, not a single approach.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Tekmetric	75 ±1.8	flat	83%	2.0	29%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #3 Gemini #2
2	Shop-Ware	59 ±4.1	flat	71%	2.7	10%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #2 Gemini #3
3	Shopmonkey	57 ±4	flat	67%	2.5	28%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #5 Gemini #1
4	Mitchell 1	56 ±3.7	flat	69%	3.0	17%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #1 Gemini #4
5	AutoLeap	37 ±6.1	flat	56%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #5
6	RO Writer	9 ±4	flat	18%	5.8	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #7 Gemini #12
7	Fullbay	7 ±3	flat	14%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude Gemini #9
8	Protractor	5 ±2.9	flat	8%	5.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #6 Gemini
9	Microsoft Entra ID	5 ±3.5	flat	6%	2.0	3%	ChatGPT Claude #8 Gemini #10
10	ARI	5 ±3.7	flat	6%	2.8	3%	ChatGPT #9 Claude Gemini #8
11	RepairShopr	5 ±3.1	flat	7%	4.4	0%	ChatGPT Claude #12 Gemini #7
12	Torque360	5 ±1.7	flat	6%	2.8	1%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #6
13	Okta	4 ±3.1	flat	6%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini #11
14	Manager SE	4 ±3.5	flat	6%	3.3	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #11 Gemini
15	Shop Boss	4 ±3.8	flat	7%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #9 Gemini #13

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: AWS (4.2), Bay-Master (3.3), Microsoft Azure (3.2), NAPA TRACS (2.8), AutoFluent (2.8). 64 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 25/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.