Overview Leaderboard Methodology
Industry Report

Project Communication Tools

Solutions focused on integrating task/project management with team messaging and updates to keep project stakeholders aligned.

Brands tracked: 41
Brands analyzed: 41
Last updated: 2026-04-22
Model: OpenAI GPT-5
Prompts: 311
Total responses: 1,610
Top Brand Overall?
Slack
94/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?
Microsoft
94

Highest score on the LBA metric in this industry.

Authority Leader?
Slack
99

Highest score on the Authority metric in this industry.

TOM Leader?
Slack
100

Highest score on the TOM metric in this industry.

Slack is the default answer in AI responses for Project Communication Tools

When users ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini about Project Communication Tools, Slack is the brand that surfaces first - unprompted, consistently, and usually at the top of any list the model generates. Microsoft is a close second, but the gap between them is meaningful. If you're competing in this space and you're not in the top handful, you're effectively invisible to AI-driven discovery.

Brand Leaderboard All 41 Project Communication Tools brands ranked

Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (smoothed geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM with an LBA-based floor on Authority and TOM, see methodology). Click any brand for the full report.

# Brand LBA Authority TOM Overall
1
Slack
slack.com
 85
99
100
94
2
Microsoft
microsoft.com
 94
61
91
81
3
Asana
asana.com
 90
65
83
79
4
Atlassian
atlassian.com
 86
48
59
63
5
ClickUp
clickup.com
 79
45
63
61
6
Notion
notion.so
 86
38
66
60
7
Monday CRM
monday.com
 73
33
66
54
8
Google
google.com
 86
13
53
41
9
Zoom
zoom.us
 92
9
59
39
10
Trello
trello.com
 82
16
29
34
11
Basecamp
basecamp.com
 83
14
29
33
12
Loom
loom.com
 88
9
22
28
13
Miro
miro.com
 86
9
17
25
14
Smartsheet
smartsheet.com
 82
8
8
20
15
Discord
discord.com
 79
8
8
19
16
Wrike
wrike.com
 77
8
9
19
17
Zoho
zoho.com
 77
8
8
19
18
Backlog
nulab.com
 72
7
7
18
19
Teamwork
teamwork.com
 73
7
7
18
20
Bitrix24
bitrix24.com
 68
7
7
17
21
Hive
hive.com
 64
6
6
16
22
Podio
podio.com
 66
7
7
16
23
ProofHub
proofhub.com
 63
6
6
16
24
Scoro
scoro.com
 66
7
7
16
25
Nifty
niftymarketing.com
 59
6
6
15
26
Flock
flock.com
 56
6
6
14
27
Paymo
paymoapp.com
 58
6
6
14
28
Flowlu
flowlu.com
 50
5
5
13
29
Freedcamp
freedcamp.com
 52
5
5
13
30
Avaza
avaza.com
 48
5
5
12
31
Chanty
chanty.com
 48
5
5
12
32
Kantata
kantata.com
 48
5
5
12
33
Plutio
plutio.com
 47
5
5
12
34
Ryver
ryver.com
 43
4
4
11
35
Taskworld
taskworld.com
 42
4
4
11
36
Redbooth
redbooth.com
 40
4
4
10
37
Project.co
project.co
 32
3
3
9
38
Samepage
samepage.io
 32
3
3
9
39
Workzone
workzone.com
 35
4
4
9
40
Breeze
breeze.pm
 20
2
2
6
41
Hibox
hibox.co
 18
2
2
5

How is this calculated? Methodology

Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 311 shared Project Communication Tools prompts. The same prompts, same model, same iterations. So differences in scores reflect actual differences in AI visibility, not differences in measurement.

Overall AI Visibility Score
Smoothed geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM. Authority and TOM are floored at LBA × 0.1 before the geometric mean (the same floor used in the per-metric cards above, so brand cards and the composite tell the same story). Formula: composite = ((LBA + 5)(Authority + 5)(TOM + 5))^(1/3) - 5. The floor keeps brands the model clearly recognises but doesn't yet recommend from collapsing to zero, while a single genuinely weak metric still pulls the composite down. Full methodology.
Shared industry prompts
For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 311 category prompts (e.g. "best SEO tools for agencies"). This makes brand-to-brand comparisons valid - everyone faces identical inputs. LBA prompts are per-brand because they ask brand-specific questions.
Latent Brand Association (LBA)
5 brand probes + 1 control prompt, each run 5 times in recall mode (no web search). LBA = quality × meta × stability × share × recognition × 100. Read the full LBA methodology →
LLM Authority
50 organic category prompts (discovery, comparison, problem and transactional intents), each run once in recall mode and once in retrieval mode. Score = frequency × log-decayed prominence × intent weight, then 50/50 averaged across the two modes. Read the full Authority methodology →
Top of Mind (TOM)
15 high-volume discovery prompts (sourced from Keywords Everywhere search-volume data), each run 5 times in pure recall mode (no web). Score = frequency × (0.5 + 0.5 × log-prominence), volume-weighted. Read the full TOM methodology →