Thunderdome B2B SaaS AI Visibility Index
Industry · July 2026

Best CRM for real estate

AI's answer · live, with web access
Follow Up Boss
Owned
87/100 slot score
100% of answers name it
#3 avg. position
+21 ahead of BoldTrail

Follow Up Boss owns the best CRM for a real estate team question, appearing in every single answer across all three models with a slot score 21 points clear of the next brand.

Follow Up Boss is the only brand to appear in 100% of answers with uniform coverage across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity at 4 mentions each, and the answers consistently cite its lead management and multi-source integration as the reasons it belongs at the top. BoldTrail is the closest challenger at a slot score of 66, showing up in 83% of answers but absent from two Gemini responses, which keeps it firmly in second place. The slot status is owned, meaning any competing CRM would need to systematically displace Follow Up Boss across all three AI platforms simultaneously to move the needle, which is a structurally difficult position to attack from.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

The full field

Every brand recommended for this question, from 12 answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

# Brand Slot score Appears in Avg. position
1 Follow Up Boss 87 100% #3
2 BoldTrail 66 83% #4
3 HubSpot 48 67% #4
4 Wise Agent 45 67% #5
5 RealAnalytica 44 50% #2
6 BoomTown 35 50% #5
7 Lofty 33 42% #3
8 Zoho CRM 29 50% #6

Slot score is position-weighted, 0 to 100: being recommended first counts far more than a trailing mention. "Appears in" is the share of answers naming the brand at all.

Other surfaces

Model memory (same assistants, no web access) Follow Up Boss (same winner)
Google AI Mode (the real surface, scraped) Follow Up Boss then Lofty, Wise Agent
Google AI Overviews (the real surface, scraped) Follow Up Boss then Lofty, Real Geeks

The main measurement above is the assistants' real answers with live web access. These rows show the same question on other surfaces: the models' bare memory, and Google's own AI search experiences.

How this was measured

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini each answered this question in two phrasings, several times each, with live web access and citations: the closest API-reachable version of the real assistant experience (no personalization or account memory, which no vendor can provide). Model-memory answers (no web) are measured separately and shown above as a comparison surface. A brand counts once per answer that recommends it. The exact questions:

Part of the CRM ranking. Method details on the methodology page. Rankings reflect measured AI answers, not paid placement.

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