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July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

Project Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Work management platforms for planning, tracking, and shipping projects. Right now, Asana is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 58 and the #1 spot in 13% of answers. Head-to-head: Asana vs Notion →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. The live-web grounded surface is rolling out across the index. Methodology.

Asana leads on reach, but no brand owns first pick.

Asana and Notion dominate mention frequency at 81% and 72%, yet neither converts that presence into being the top recommendation, with Jira and Linear actually winning first-pick honors more often. The most striking split is on Jira: Claude scores it at 73.7 while ChatGPT sits at 47.9 and Gemini at 41, meaning Jira's overall ranking flatters a deeply uneven reality. ClickUp is the inverse problem, strong with ChatGPT at 64.6 but nearly invisible to Claude at 26.3, which puts its long-term visibility at real risk as model preferences shift.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

# Brand Visibility Score Mention rate Avg. position #1 pick rate Models
1 Asana
58
±4.7
81% 4 13% ChatGPT #2 Claude #3 Gemini #2
2 Notion
55
±3.5
72% 3 15% ChatGPT #3 Claude #4 Gemini #3
3 Linear
55
±2.5
68% 3 19% ChatGPT #4 Claude #2 Gemini #4
4 Jira
54
±5.1
65% 3 21% ChatGPT #5 Claude #1 Gemini #6
5 ClickUp
47
±4.6
58% 3 13% ChatGPT #1 Claude #7 Gemini #5
6 monday.com
44
±5.9
65% 4 6% ChatGPT #7 Claude #5 Gemini #1
7 Trello
33
±3.9
50% 4 3% ChatGPT #6 Claude #6 Gemini #7
8 Microsoft Project
12
±1.8
17% 4 8% ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini #13
9 Smartsheet
11
±2.7
22% 6 0% ChatGPT #10 Claude #9 Gemini #8
10 Coda
9
±2.9
15% 5 0% ChatGPT #8 Claude #13 Gemini #10
11 GitHub Projects
6
±3.7
10% 5 0% ChatGPT #13 Claude #12 Gemini #12
12 ServiceNow
6
±1.2
8% 4 0% ChatGPT #11 Claude #10 Gemini
13 Confluence
5
±2.7
8% 5 0% ChatGPT #14 Claude #11 Gemini #14
14 Basecamp
5
±1.5
10% 6 0% ChatGPT #15 Claude #14 Gemini #9
15 Atlassian
5
±3.4
6% 2 1% ChatGPT #12 Claude Gemini #11

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: Height (4.4), GitHub (3.8), Planview (3.2), Azure DevOps (3.1), Productboard (2.6). 36 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
0 25 50 75 100 Visibility Score · 0 = never mentioned, 100 = always the first recommendation Asana Notion Linear Jira ClickUp monday.com Trello Microsoft Project Smartsheet Coda

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.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Position in the answer · 1 = the first product recommended Asana Notion Linear Jira ClickUp monday.com Trello Microsoft Project Smartsheet Coda

What each model recommends first

ChatGPT

gpt-5.3-chat-latest

1 ClickUp
65
2 Asana
58
3 Notion
55
4 Linear
50
5 Jira
48

Claude

claude-sonnet-4-6

1 Jira
74
2 Linear
62
3 Asana
60
4 Notion
59
5 monday.com
47

Gemini

gemini-3-flash-preview

1 monday.com
59
2 Asana
54
3 Notion
52
4 Linear
52
5 ClickUp
49

The questions we asked

Each model answered every prompt 3 times in July 2026. Prompts are brand-neutral so no vendor gets seeded into the question.

  1. Best overall
    What's the best project management tool for a software company? See who wins it →
  2. Use-case fit
    Our team of 30 needs to plan sprints and track cross-functional projects. What should we use? See who wins it →
  3. Top tools in 2026
    What are the top project management platforms in 2026? See who wins it →
  4. Startup & small team
    Which project management tool is best for a startup that moves fast? See who wins it →
  5. Enterprise pick
    Which project management platform should a large enterprise standardize on, considering security, compliance, and scale? See who wins it →
  6. Feature-led ask
    I need something to manage tasks, docs, and roadmaps in one place. What do you recommend? See who wins it →
  7. If you could pick one
    If you could only pick one project management tool, which one and why? See who wins it →
  8. Budget & alternatives
    What's the best project management software for value for money? See who wins it →

Who wins for what

AI buying questions are long tail: real buyers ask for their size, industry, budget, and situation, not just "what's the best project management". Each column is one of those qualified questions, scored the same way as the main ranking but measured on the lived surface: real assistant answers with live web access. The slot score is position-weighted: being recommended first counts far more than a trailing mention.

The first column is the overall (unsegmented) pick; the rest are segmented questions — a full row is breadth, a single dot is a niche a brand owns. Overall = the headline model ranking; segment dots = the live, web-grounded surface.

Best forWinnerSlot scoreStatus
Company size
EnterpriseWrike71Contested
Mid-marketmonday.com84Open
Small businessAsana93Contested
StartupsClickUp97Owned
Industry
AgenciesClickUp83Open
EcommerceAsana92Contested
Healthcaremonday.com85Open
NonprofitsAsana68Open
Real estatemonday.com56Open
Price posture
Best valueClickUp65Contested
BudgetTrello85Contested
FreeClickUp95Contested
Job to be done
Client projectsClickUp65Open
Simple task trackingTrello92Contested
Software sprintsJira99Owned
Switching from
Asana alternativeClickUp97Open
Jira alternativeClickUp89Contested