Project management tools
Which project trackers do AI engines put first?
Asana was named in 90% of answers across one AI engine.
- Engines
- DeepSeek (deepseek-chat)
- Prompts asked
- 10
- Answers counted
- 10
- Measured
- 2026-09-13
Who got named
Across 10 brands we tracked. “Named in” is the raw count — with 10 answers, each one is 10% of the sample.
| Best position | Brand | Named in | Rate | Avg position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asana | 9/10 | 90% | 2.4 |
| 1 | ClickUp | 9/10 | 90% | 2.8 |
| 1 | Jira | 9/10 | 90% | 3.0 |
| 1 | Linear | 9/10 | 90% | 1.7 |
| 1 | Notion | 8/10 | 80% | 2.0 |
| 1 | Trello | 7/10 | 70% | 2.2 |
| 2 | Monday.com | 6/10 | 60% | 2.5 |
| 2 | Basecamp | 4/10 | 40% | 4.7 |
| — | Airtable | 2/10 | 20% | — |
| 5 | Smartsheet | 1/10 | 10% | 5.0 |
Question by question
Which of the 10 tracked brands each prompt named — Asana, the leader, is highlighted.
- What is the best project management tool for a small team?Notion · Asana · Linear · Monday.com · ClickUp · Jira · Trello · Basecamp
- Best project tracker for a software teamAsana · Linear · Monday.com · ClickUp · Jira
- Tools like Asana but simplerNotion · Asana · Linear · ClickUp · Trello · Basecamp
- What should a startup use to manage tasks?Notion · Asana · Linear · ClickUp · Jira · Trello
- Best free project management softwareNotion · Asana · Linear · ClickUp · Jira · Trello
- How do I choose a project management tool?Notion · Asana · Linear · Monday.com · ClickUp · Jira · Trello · Smartsheet
- Linear vs Jira — which is better?Linear · Jira
- Notion alternatives for team task trackingNotion · Asana · Linear · Monday.com · ClickUp · Jira · Trello · Basecamp · Airtable
- Best project management software for an agencyNotion · Asana · Monday.com · ClickUp · Jira · Airtable
- What is the best project management tool for remote teams?Notion · Asana · Linear · Monday.com · ClickUp · Jira · Trello · Basecamp
Asana and ClickUp were named in exactly the same answers — the gap between them is how often they appear, not which questions they appear in.
How this was measured
- Each prompt was asked verbatim — no instruction to produce a list, no mention of AnswerWatch. Biasing the answers would make the numbers meaningless.
- A brand counts as named when its name (or an alias we recorded) appears in the answer text, matched on word boundaries so “Core” does not match inside “Score”.
- Position is the 1-based place in the answer’s main ranked list — the longest list it wrote. Answers often add smaller side-lists (“best for small teams”, “also consider”); counting those would let a brand look like #1 for winning a two-item list. A brand named only in prose, or only in a side-list, has no position and shows “—”.
- The brand list is curated, not the whole market. These are brands we chose to track, so a brand missing from this page is not evidence that AI ignores it. Answers sometimes name companies we did not track; those are not counted.
- Failed API calls are excluded from rates rather than counted as “not named”, and are reported above.
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