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 | | ±4.7 | 81% | 4 | 13% | ChatGPT #2 Claude #3 Gemini #2 |
| 2 | | ±3.5 | 72% | 3 | 15% | ChatGPT #3 Claude #4 Gemini #3 |
| 3 | | ±2.5 | 68% | 3 | 19% | ChatGPT #4 Claude #2 Gemini #4 |
| 4 | | ±5.1 | 65% | 3 | 21% | ChatGPT #5 Claude #1 Gemini #6 |
| 5 | | ±4.6 | 58% | 3 | 13% | ChatGPT #1 Claude #7 Gemini #5 |
| 6 | | ±5.9 | 65% | 4 | 6% | ChatGPT #7 Claude #5 Gemini #1 |
| 7 | | ±3.9 | 50% | 4 | 3% | ChatGPT #6 Claude #6 Gemini #7 |
| 8 | | ±1.8 | 17% | 4 | 8% | ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini #13 |
| 9 | | ±2.7 | 22% | 6 | 0% | ChatGPT #10 Claude #9 Gemini #8 |
| 10 | | ±2.9 | 15% | 5 | 0% | ChatGPT #8 Claude #13 Gemini #10 |
| 11 | | ±3.7 | 10% | 5 | 0% | ChatGPT #13 Claude #12 Gemini #12 |
| 12 | | ±1.2 | 8% | 4 | 0% | ChatGPT #11 Claude #10 Gemini |
| 13 | | ±2.7 | 8% | 5 | 0% | ChatGPT #14 Claude #11 Gemini #14 |
| 14 | | ±1.5 | 10% | 6 | 0% | ChatGPT #15 Claude #14 Gemini #9 |
| 15 | | ±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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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.
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.
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Each model answered every prompt 3 times in July 2026. Prompts are brand-neutral so no vendor gets seeded into the question.
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.
| OVERALL | Company size | Industry | Price posture | Job to be done | Switching from | |||||||||||||
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| Unsegmented | Enterprise | Mid-market | Small business | Startups | Agencies | Ecommerce | Healthcare | Nonprofits | Real estate | Best value | Budget | Free | Client projects | Simple task tracking | Software sprints | Asana alternative | Jira alternative | |
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owns it owns, contested leads an open slot top 3 absent
| Best for | Winner | Slot score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company size | |||
| Enterprise | Wrike | Contested | |
| Mid-market | Open | ||
| Small business | Contested | ||
| Startups | Owned | ||
| Industry | |||
| Agencies | Open | ||
| Ecommerce | Contested | ||
| Healthcare | Open | ||
| Nonprofits | Open | ||
| Real estate | Open | ||
| Price posture | |||
| Best value | Contested | ||
| Budget | Contested | ||
| Free | Contested | ||
| Job to be done | |||
| Client projects | Open | ||
| Simple task tracking | Contested | ||
| Software sprints | Owned | ||
| Switching from | |||
| Asana alternative | Open | ||
| Jira alternative | Contested | ||