Overview Leaderboard Methodology
Industry Report

SMB Applicant Tracking Platforms

Applicant tracking solutions tailored for small and medium-sized businesses offering simplified job posting, candidate management, and affordable pricing.

Brands tracked: 37
Brands analyzed: 37
Last updated: 2026-04-22
Model: OpenAI GPT-5
Prompts: 287
Total responses: 1,470
Top Brand Overall?
Breezy HR
78/100

Highest overall AI Visibility Score in this industry.

LBA Leader?
Calendly
89

Highest score on the LBA metric.

Authority Leader?
Breezy HR
68

Highest score on the Authority metric.

TOM Leader?
Breezy HR
100

Highest score on the TOM metric.

Breezy HR leads the SMB Applicant Tracking Platforms category in AI responses

Breezy HR is the most consistently-surfaced brand when users ask AI assistants about SMB Applicant Tracking Platforms, but not to the point of monopolising the conversation. Workable and a handful of others appear regularly, giving users a reasonable set of alternatives to compare. The top of this leaderboard is where most of the AI-driven traffic will go.

Brand Leaderboard All 37 SMB Applicant Tracking Platforms brands ranked

Ranked by overall AI Visibility Score (geometric mean of LBA, Authority, and TOM). Click any brand for the full report.

# Brand LBA Authority TOM Overall
1
Breezy HR
breezy.hr
 71
68
100
78
2
Workable
workable.com
 77
63
94
77
3
Zoho Recruit
zohorecruit.com
 78
42
68
61
4
Greenhouse
greenhouse.com
 81
26
62
51
5
JazzHR
jazzhr.com
 67
18
82
47
6
Lever
lever.co
 73
10
54
34
7
BambooHR
bamboohr.com
 69
11
49
33
8
Recruitee
recruitee.com
 72
7
39
27
9
Ashby
ashbyhq.com
 71
7
14
19
10
Rippling
rippling.com
 71
3
19
17
11
Indeed
indeed.com
 56
2
24
15
12
SmartRecruiters
smartrecruiters.com
 70
3
13
14
13
F
Freshteam
freshteam.com
 65
4
8
13
14
Manatal
manatal.com
 63
1
16
10
15
ZipRecruiter
ziprecruiter.com
 78
0
4
3
16
Pinpoint
pinpointhq.com
 41
0
11
2
17
ApplicantPro
applicantpro.com
 41
0
0
1
18
Calendly
calendly.com
 89
0
2
1
19
ClearCompany
clearcompany.com
 51
0
1
1
20
GoodTime
goodtime.io
 41
0
3
1
21
Hireology
hireology.com
 67
0
0
1
22
Personio
personio.com
 71
0
0
1
23
Recruit CRM
recruitcrm.io
 65
0
0
1
24
Teamtailor
teamtailor.com
 69
0
0
1
25
TestGorilla
testgorilla.com
 63
0
3
1
26
ApplicantStack
applicantstack.com
 52
0
0
0
27
Betterteam
betterteam.com
 37
0
0
0
28
Comeet
comeet.co
 54
0
0
0
29
GoHire
gohire.io
 37
0
0
0
30
HireHive
hirehive.com
 8
0
0
0
31
Homerun
homerun.co
 57
0
0
0
32
JobAdder
jobadder.com
 61
0
0
0
33
JobScore
jobscore.com
 35
0
0
0
34
JOIN
join.com
 30
0
0
0
35
TalentLyft
talentlyft.com
 48
0
0
0
36
Trakstar
trakstar.com
 51
0
0
0
37
VIVAHR
vivahr.com
 43
0
0
0

How is this calculated? Methodology

Every brand in this leaderboard is scored against the same set of 287 shared SMB Applicant Tracking Platforms 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
Geometric mean of LBA, Authority and TOM: (LBA × Authority × TOM)^(1/3). Geometric mean is used so that any single weak metric pulls the overall score down, rather than being masked by strength elsewhere.
Shared industry prompts
For Authority and TOM, all brands in the industry are scored against the same 287 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 →