The most visible American B2B and B2C project management tools, October 2026

October 2026 · 12 questions asked in English, worldwide · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 96 answers read

Industry Asked from Brands from Audience Engine Month

Leader

ClickUp

74%of answers name it

Most cited source

youtube.com

42citations

From Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

Notion

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on Gemini, not on Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT

Brands

Rank	Brand	Heralded Score	Mentioned	Recommended	Change
1#1 overall	ClickUp US	72 , range 61–78	74%	42%	First reading
2#5 overall	Smartsheet US	49 , range 42–61	47%	27%	First reading
3#7 overall	Trello US	34 , range 25–41	26%	10%	First reading
4#9 overall	Notion US	9 , range 5–31	10%	4%	First reading
5#18 overall	Airtable US	5 , range 2–20	6%	1%	First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

Most cited sources

Rank	Source	Type	Cited in	Engines	Pages cited	Brands its pages mention
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12	thedigitalprojectmanager.com	Media	10.4%	2 of 4	6	0
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19	buildertrend.com	Vendor site	5.2%	3 of 4	2	0
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The questions, and who wins each

Question	Language	Wins it
project management software with the best support	English	ClickUp
which project management software do experts recommend	English	ClickUp

Each engine's top three

Google AI Mode

Gemini

Google AI Overviews

ChatGPT

Method

Each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured