Public AI recommendation index
CRM for startups
Based on 4 valid discovery answers for November 02, 2026.
- AIs:
- ChatGPT and Gemini
- Method:
- ChatGPT answers are read from its public web interface. Gemini answers come from Google's model API, which may answer from the model alone, without searching the web.
- Questions asked:
- “best CRM for startups” and “which CRM should an early-stage startup use”
- 1Attionamed in 2 answers
- 2HubSpotnamed in 2 answers
- 390% offnamed in 1 answer
- 4Airtablenamed in 1 answer
- 5B2B SaaS/Technamed in 1 answer
- 6Callingnamed in 1 answer
- 7Closenamed in 1 answer
- 8Contactednamed in 1 answer
- 9Deal ownernamed in 1 answer
- 10Deal valuenamed in 1 answer
- 11Discovery schedulednamed in 1 answer
- 12Extensive customizationnamed in 1 answer
- 13Last interactionnamed in 1 answer
- 14Lead sourcenamed in 1 answer
- 15Negotiationnamed in 1 answer
- 16New leadnamed in 1 answer
- 17Notionnamed in 1 answer
- 18Pipedrivenamed in 1 answer
- 19Pre-seed/Bootstrappednamed in 1 answer
- 20Proposal / Demonamed in 1 answer
Frequently cited sources
- attio.com (2 citations)
- close.com (2 citations)
- hackceleration.com (2 citations)
- hubspot.com (2 citations)
- pipedrive.com (2 citations)
- dupple.com (1 citation)
- folk.app (1 citation)
- spotsaas.com (1 citation)
- thepipelinereport.com (1 citation)
- zoho.com (1 citation)
History
One row per round of questions. A round is published only when every question was answered validly on every AI.
| Round | Valid answers | Most named |
|---|---|---|
| November 02, 2026 | 4 | Attio, HubSpot, and 90% off |
AI crawlers and agents across the web
Largest shares of AI crawler requests across Cloudflare in the last 28 days: Googlebot 23.5%, ClaudeBot 12.9%, Meta-ExternalAgent 9.3%, and Applebot 8.2%.
Of 115,468 sites Cloudflare scanned on November 02, 2026, 4.3% serve pages as Markdown to agents, 8.9% declare Content Signals and 0.6% publish an MCP server card.