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Feature-led ask · Prompt 6 of 8 · July 2026

A real buyer question from the July 2026 snapshot, asked 3× to each of the three models. 9 answers recorded.

“I want live dashboards for burn, runway, and revenue forecasts. What do you recommend?”

ChatGPT answered 3× this snapshot

You’ve basically got three tiers to choose from, depending on how much automation and complexity you want. 1) Fast + flexible (most startups start here) Tools: Google Sheets or Excel + a dashboard layer like Looker Studio or Causal How it works: your financial model lives in a sheet, dashboards pull from it Pros: cheap, easy to tweak, full control over assumptions (burn, hiring plans, runway) Cons: manual data…

Named across its answers: 1. Runway2. Causal3. Looker Studio4. ChartMogul5. Mosaic

Verbatim excerpt from one collected ChatGPT answer; formatting flattened, words untouched.

Runway is the functional winner here, leading on first-mention rate (5 of 9) and holding an average position of 1.8, even though Causal achieved perfect recall across all 9 answers. Anaplan and Workday Adaptive Planning hold strong category ranks yet were never named, which signals a real gap between category authority and AI-driven buyer recommendations.

AI-generated read of the July 2026 measurements.

Who wins this question

Contested Consensus

All three models name Runway, Causal and Mosaic on this question.

ChatGPTClaudeGemini mentioned · first · avg. pos
Causal 3141013434 9/9 · 2× first · #3.7
Runway 15112211 8/9 · 5× first · #1.8
Mosaic 65231241 8/9 · 2× first · #3
Looker Studio 826855 6/9 · never first · #5.7
Pry 2525 4/9 · never first · #3.5
ChartMogul 1236 3/9 · never first · #7
Metabase 11104 3/9 · never first · #8.3
Cube 33 2/9 · never first · #3
Drivetrain 44 2/9 · never first · #4
LiveFlow 36 2/9 · never first · #4.5
Ramp 76 2/9 · never first · #6.5
Airtable 411 2/9 · never first · #7.5

Each square is one collected answer; the number is the brand's position in that answer. Lime = the very first recommendation. Unlinked brands were named by the models here but sit outside this category's published top 15 overall. Showing the top 12 of 36 brands named at least once. Never mentioned here: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, SAP Analytics Cloud, Datarails, Vena Solutions, OneStream, Adaptive Planning, Oracle Cloud EPM.

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Part of the FP&A & Financial Planning snapshot: 72 answers across 8 prompts. Full category ranking · Compare brands head-to-head · Methodology.