Thunderdome B2B SaaS AI Visibility Index

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Best overall · Prompt 1 of 8 · July 2026

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

“What's the best marketing automation platform for a B2B company?”

ChatGPT answered 3× this snapshot

…getting lost in vendor hype. If you want the safest default for most B2B teams: HubSpot is the easiest strong choice. It balances automation, CRM, content, and reporting in one system, and your team will actually use it. Best for small to mid-sized teams or anyone who values speed over deep customization. If you’re running a more complex, enterprise-style motion: Marketo (Adobe) is the heavyweight. It’s powerful…

Named across its answers: 1. HubSpot2. Marketo3. Pardot4. Customer.io5. ActiveCampaign

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

HubSpot owns this question completely, taking the first slot in all 9 answers across every model, while Marketo appears everywhere but never leads. Salesforce Marketing Cloud's total absence from all 9 answers is the sharpest gap between category rank and AI visibility in this data.

AI-generated read of the July 2026 measurements.

Who wins this question

Owned Consensus

All three models name HubSpot, Marketo and ActiveCampaign on this question.

ChatGPTClaudeGemini mentioned · first · avg. pos
HubSpot 111111111 9/9 · 9× first · #1
Marketo 223222333 9/9 · never first · #2.4
ActiveCampaign 664444444 9/9 · never first · #4.4
Pardot 332333 6/9 · never first · #2.8
Salesforce 222 3/9 · never first · #2
Customer.io 445 3/9 · never first · #4.3
Ortto 55 2/9 · never first · #5
Apollo.io 5 1/9 · never first · #5
Iterable 6 1/9 · never first · #6
6sense 7 1/9 · never first · #7
Demandbase 8 1/9 · never first · #8

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. Never mentioned here: Klaviyo, Brevo, Mailchimp, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, MailerLite, Braze, Kit.

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Part of the Marketing Automation snapshot: 72 answers across 8 prompts. Full category ranking · Compare brands head-to-head · Methodology.