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Category · AI Citation Index

Project Management

Project management is a contested category with four brands splitting AI attention almost evenly. monday dev is the consensus pick — surfaces in 98% of discovery prompts and wins more head-to-heads than it loses. Asana and ClickUp sit within three points of monday on shortlist rate, both visible across every engine; Smartsheet scores identically to monday in evaluation (78/100) but lags slightly in discovery share. The surprise is the absent-giant cohort: Ringover, Teamwork CRM, and Webex each score 71-72 in head-to-head comparisons but show up in fewer than half as many discovery queries as the top four. This is a contested category — no single brand owns AI attention, and three to four names trade wins depending on the buyer's framing.

455 discovery queries · 135 head-to-heads · refreshed May 1, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 455 buyer-style "Project Management" queries

Most cited · Project ManagementLive

monday dev

monday.com

Cited in 445 of 455 buyer questions for Project Management

ChatGPT—Gemini—Claude—

Citation rate

98%

Visibility score78/100

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monday dev and Asana each show up in more than 96% of buyer queries about project management software, visible across all five AI engines we track. ClickUp surfaces in 90% of the same queries, again across every engine. Smartsheet (76% of queries) and Notion (76%) trail by twenty points but maintain consistent visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Atlassian and Trello each surface in 67-78% of prompts but lack evaluation-stage scores in our dataset, suggesting AI engines name them in discovery lists more often than they pick them in head-to-head comparisons.

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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.

monday dev

12/12

Asana

12/12

ClickUp

12/12

Notion

12/12

Linear

11/12

Built

9/9

monday dev

9/9

Asana

9/9

Wrike

9/9

Microsoft

8/9

Asana

8/8

monday dev

8/8

ClickUp

8/8

Notion

8/8

Wrike

8/8

monday dev

7/7

monday.com

7/7

ClickUp

7/7

Goals

7/7

Plan

7/7

Linear

6/6

Built

6/6

Notion

6/6

ClickUp

6/6

Atlassian

6/6

Notion

6/6

Trello

6/6

Asana

6/6

ClickUp

6/6

Built

6/6

Asana

6/6

monday dev

6/6

monday.com

6/6

Built

6/6

Jira

6/6

monday dev

6/6

monday.com

6/6

Jira

6/6

Asana

6/6

Microsoft

6/6

≥50% cited

25–49%

<25%

Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · project-management

Evaluation stage

Head-to-head

How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 54/100

When buyers ask AI to compare tools, monday dev and Smartsheet each score 75-78 across a handful of head-to-head matchups, winning more comparisons than they lose. Asana and ClickUp score 74 in evaluation — tied with monday in our head-to-head sample. The kingmaker is Akiflow: scores 78 across fourteen comparison queries despite thin discovery share. Plivo (76 across thirteen comparisons) and Suitedash (66 across twelve) also punch above their weight in evaluation relative to their absence from the consensus shortlist.

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X = evaluation citation rate · Y = evaluation prompts cited in · Bubble size = citation exposure

Median citation rate 54/100

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.

Brands to know

In this category

monday dev

Consensus pick

All-in-one work OS for teams and workflows

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Asana

Task and goal tracking for cross-functional teams

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Smartsheet

Spreadsheet-based work management and automation

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ClickUp

Customizable workspace for tasks, docs, and goals

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Ringover

Absent giant

Cloud phone system with CRM integrations

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Buyer questions

What AI cites for top Project Management questions

Most queries here are top-of-funnel exploration — buyers ask AI for the best project management tools by team size, vertical, or use case ('best project management software for retail businesses', 'how to create and manage project timelines effectively'). A smaller slice digs into integration and performance questions: how project management platforms integrate with time tracking tools, how to assess performance under load, and impact on team productivity. Pricing and onboarding logistics appear in a final cluster ('how much does project management software cost', 'easiest project management tools to onboard').