Subcategory · AI Citation Index

Business Intelligence

Tableau and Looker dominate shortlists; Metabase surges +14 points while scores collapse 76% in two months.

162 discovery queries · 270 head-to-heads · refreshed Jun 6, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 162 buyer-style "Business Intelligence" queries

Tableau appears in 67% of shortlists (108/162 prompts), Looker in 65%, both cited across all five models. Microsoft Power BI lands in 48% despite coverage from only four models. Domo, Qlik, and Thoughtspot cluster at 42–51% shortlist rates with mention volumes between 174 and 208.

0%22%44%66%88%Coverage — share of discovery prompts where the brand surfaces68%75%83%91%99%Engine diversity

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions
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Signal by intent

By topic

Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.

1Tableau
15/15
2Looker
13/15
3Qlik
12/15
4Domo
8/15
5Thoughtspot
8/15
1Tableau
6/6
2Looker
6/6
3Metabase
6/6
4Thoughtspot
6/6
5Qlik
6/6
1Looker
4/4
2Tableau
4/4
3Domo
4/4
4Attribution
4/4
5Windsor.ai
4/4
1Tableau
4/4
2Looker
4/4
3Domo
3/4
4Qlik
2/4
5Netsuite
2/4
1Looker
3/3
2Tableau
3/3
3Metabase
2/3
4Glew
2/3
5Looker Studio
2/3
1Looker
3/3
2Tableau
3/3
3Thoughtspot
3/3
4Sisense
3/3
5Metabase
2/3
1Tableau
3/3
2Domo
3/3
3Looker
3/3
4Qlik
2/3
5Sisense
2/3
1Tableau
3/3
2Qlik
3/3
3Looker
3/3
4Thoughtspot
2/3
5Attribution
2/3
≥50% cited
25–49%
<25%
Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · business-intelligence

Evaluation stage

Head-to-head

How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 5/100

Insights, Tableau, and Looker tie at 47 average evaluation score across 27 head-to-head queries each. Microsoft Power BI trails by one point at 46. Thoughtspot (44) and Sigma (40) sit mid-pack; Domo scores 39 despite strong shortlist presence. Category median remains 5, indicating most brands lack comparative evaluation data.

0255075100Evaluation citation rate — % of category evaluation prompts citing this brand07142027Evaluation prompts cited inmedian citation ratemedian exposure

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X = evaluation citation rate · Y = evaluation prompts cited in · Bubble size = citation exposure
Median citation rate 5/100

Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.

Citation sources

Where AI pulls citations from

633 citations captured across Business Intelligence prompt runs.

Vendor pages

180

Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors

Independent sources

137

Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned

Buyer questions

What AI cites for top Business Intelligence questions

Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.

Discovery

Buyers exploring the category

Evaluation

Buyers comparing options

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