July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Sales Engagement & Outbound: AI Visibility Ranking

Platforms for outbound sequences, prospecting data, and multichannel sales outreach. Right now, Apollo.io is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 76 and the #1 spot in 36% of answers. Head-to-head: Apollo.io vs Salesloft →

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.

Apollo owns the default slot; everything below it is contested.

Apollo.io leads with near-universal mention across all three models and takes the first-pick position 36% of the time, a gap that makes it the obvious default answer in this category. Salesloft and Outreach split the runner-up story in an interesting way: Salesloft scores higher overall but Outreach wins first-pick honors 29% of the time, suggesting Gemini's weak score of 42.5 for Outreach is masking genuine top-of-mind strength on the other two models. Lemlist sits at the bottom with a 25.1 score and zero first-pick mentions, meaning it gets included for completeness rather than recommendation.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Apollo.io	76 ±2.9	89%	3	36%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #2 Gemini #1
2	Salesloft	66 ±3.8	82%	3	14%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #1 Gemini #2
3	Outreach	58 ±6.1	68%	3	29%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	Instantly	41 ±3	60%	4	10%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #4
5	Lemlist	25 ±3.9	43%	5	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #5 Gemini #5
6	HubSpot	25 ±4.6	36%	4	1%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #7 Gemini #10
7	Smartlead	21 ±3.8	38%	6	3%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #8 Gemini #8
8	ZoomInfo	14 ±3	31%	6	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #9 Gemini #9
9	Outreach.io	14 ±6.2	17%	3	6%	ChatGPT Claude #6 Gemini #7
10	Clay	14 ±3.7	29%	6	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #12 Gemini #6
11	Groove	7 ±3.8	13%	5	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #10 Gemini #12
12	Close	7 ±2.9	11%	5	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude Gemini
13	Salesforce	5 ±4.1	7%	4	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #14 Gemini #11
14	Hunter.io	4 ±3	8%	6	0%	ChatGPT Claude #11 Gemini #13
15	Cognism	4 ±2.2	11%	8	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #13 Gemini #14

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: Reply.io (3.5), Regie.ai (3.3), Lavender (3.3), Mixmax (3.2), Artisan (2.9). 70 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 24/100: 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.