The most visible B2B project management tools on Google AI Overviews, October 2026

October 2026 · 12 questions asked in English, worldwide · Google AI Overviews · 24 answers read

Industry Asked from Brands from Audience Engine Month

Leader

ClickUp

88%of answers name it

Most cited source

youtube.com

17citations

From Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

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Brands

Rank	Brand	Heralded Score	Mentioned	Recommended	Mentioned by	Change
1#1 overall	ClickUp US	77 , range 60–85	88%	38%	None	First reading
2#2 overall	monday.com IL	62 , range 42–78	58%	33%		First reading
= 3#3 overall	Asana US	59 , range 41–77	58%	29%		First reading
= 3#3 overall	Jira AU	59 , range 41–77	58%	29%	None	First reading
5#5 overall	Smartsheet US	43 , range 32–65	46%	13%	None	First reading
6#6 overall	Trello US	37 , range 25–56	33%	13%		First reading
7#7 overall	Wrike US	36 , range 22–53	29%	13%	None	First reading
8#8 overall	Zoho Projects IN	27 , range 14–44	21%	4%	None	First reading
9#9 overall	Airtable US	23 , range 12–42	17%	4%	None	First reading
–	Adobe Workfront US	Too few answers	0%	0%	None	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
11	buildertrend.com	Vendor site	8.3%	1 of 4	1	0
12	cmicglobal.com	Vendor site	8.3%	1 of 4	1	0
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17	icagile.com	Reference	8.3%	1 of 4	1	0
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The questions, and who wins each

Question	Language	Wins it
best project management software for a agency company	English	ClickUp, monday.com, Productive, Scoro and Teamwork, tied
project management software recommendations for a project manager	English	ClickUp, Jira, monday.com and Smartsheet, tied
top project management software	English	Asana, Jira, Smartsheet, Trello and Wrike, tied
how to choose project management software	English	Asana, ClickUp, Jira, monday.com and Trello, tied
what to look for in project management software	English	Jira
project management software for a team of 20 to 200	English	Asana, ClickUp and monday.com, tied
project management software that integrates with Slack	English	No brand recommended
project management software with GDPR-compliant hosting	English	No brand recommended
project management software for construction	English	No brand recommended
most reliable project management software	English	Asana and monday.com, tied

Each engine's top three

Google AI Overviews

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.

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