September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Locked up

Pool Service Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Field service software for pool service and maintenance companies covering routing, chemical logs, and billing. Right now, Skimmer is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 87 and the #1 spot in 83% of answers. Head-to-head: Skimmer vs Jobber →

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.

Skimmer dominates pool software AI recommendations without contest.

Skimmer's 87-point score and 83% first-pick rate put it in a category of its own, with Jobber a distant second at 58 points and no first picks to show. The mid-table picture is chaotic: PayThePoolMan scores 73 on Gemini but zero on Claude, and Pool Brain pulls 65 on ChatGPT but zero on Gemini, meaning neither brand has built anything close to consistent cross-model presence. Skimmer is the only brand the three models genuinely agree on.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Skimmer	87 ±0	▼ 5	88%	1.0	83%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Jobber	58 ±6.1	flat	74%	3.1	0%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #2 Gemini #3
3	PayThePoolMan	37 ±4.7	▼ 8	46%	2.9	4%	ChatGPT #4 Claude Gemini #2
4	ServiceTitan	35 ±5	▲ 10	47%	3.6	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #3 Gemini #5
5	Pool Brain	27 ±4.6	▲ 10	33%	2.8	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #6 Gemini
6	Pool Office Manager	26 ±6.5	▼ 15	32%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #4 Gemini #4
7	Housecall Pro	17 ±5.1	▼ 10	29%	5.2	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #7 Gemini #8
8	PoolCarePRO	10 ±4.6	flat	14%	4.1	0%	ChatGPT Claude #5 Gemini
9	Microsoft Entra ID	6 ±2.7	flat	7%	2.4	3%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini #9
10	Okta	5 ±2.5	flat	7%	3.4	0%	ChatGPT Claude #11 Gemini #10
11	AWS	5 ±3.4	flat	6%	2.5	1%	ChatGPT Claude #12 Gemini #11
12	Microsoft Azure	4 ±0	▼ 1	4%	1.0	4%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #6
13	Service Fusion	4 ±3	flat	8%	6.2	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #9 Gemini
14	PoolTrac	4 ±3.4	flat	6%	3.8	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #7
15	Service Autopilot	3 ±3.2	flat	4%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #8 Gemini

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: PoolTrackr (3.3), QuickBooks Online (2.9), OptimoRoute (2.5), Wave (2.2), Ping Identity (2.2). 55 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 13/100: 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.