September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Consulting & Professional Services Automation: AI Visibility Ranking

Professional services automation platforms for consultancies covering projects, resourcing, time, and billing. Right now, Kantata is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 57 and the #1 spot in 25% of answers. Head-to-head: Kantata vs Certinia →

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.

Kantata leads, but three rivals are close enough to matter.

Kantata's 56.7 score sits 19 points clear of Certinia, which sounds comfortable until you notice BigTime, Scoro, and Accelo are all within 17 points of second place, making the pack behind genuinely contested. Kantata's Claude score of 38.3 is its weakest model by far, leaving real room for competitors to chip away if they strengthen their presence in that one engine. Scoro's Claude score of 2.1 is essentially invisible there, which keeps its overall number artificially low and suggests model-specific gaps matter as much as aggregate rank in this category.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Kantata	57 ±4.1	flat	65%	2.3	25%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Certinia	37 ±7	flat	42%	2.1	22%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #3 Gemini #2
3	BigTime	27 ±5.7	flat	43%	4.8	1%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #7 Gemini #7
4	Productive	25 ±5.4	flat	36%	4.2	10%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #11 Gemini #3
5	Scoro	23 ±4.9	▼ 8	39%	5.2	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #14 Gemini #8
6	Accelo	20 ±5.1	flat	38%	5.6	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #9 Gemini #4
7	Harvest	20 ±2.2	flat	31%	4.6	3%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #6 Gemini #5
8	Autotask	14 ±4.4	flat	21%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #4 Gemini #10
9	Teamwork	14 ±6.3	flat	22%	4.8	4%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #2 Gemini #14
10	HaloPSA	11 ±4.9	flat	15%	4.1	1%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini #11
11	NetSuite OpenAir	10 ±3.5	flat	19%	5.8	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude Gemini #12
12	Forecast	9 ±3.9	flat	15%	4.9	1%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #12 Gemini #6
13	Salesforce	8 ±3.4	flat	10%	2.7	4%	ChatGPT Claude #5 Gemini
14	monday.com	7 ±4.4	flat	17%	6.9	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #13 Gemini #13
15	Avaza	6 ±2.5	flat	10%	4.4	3%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini #9

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: ConnectWise (6), Bonsai (5.7), Microsoft Entra ID (5.6), Oracle NetSuite (5.1), ConnectWise Manage (5.1). 110 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 43/100: 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.