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HubSpot

How often AI names HubSpot and where the brand ranks in web search. Aggregated across 5 Achtung.app industry reports.

hubspot.com DACH dataset (DE/AT/CH), as of 1. Aug 2026

HubSpot was named in 65 analysed AI answers across 5 industry reports. Its strongest placement is the SaaS & Software report: rank 1 of 324 by AI prominence. Perplexity names the brand most often, on average at position 3,3 of the answer. In classic web search HubSpot holds 13 results, at an average rank of 2,8.

At a glance

AI citations
65
Summed across reports
Avg AI position
4,18
Weighted across reports
Web-search hits
13
Brave Search, aggregated
Verticals
5
AI models: 4

Verticals HubSpot appears in

Sorted by rank. Click to open the full vertical report.

Vertical Rank AI citations
SaaS & Software #1/324 49 View report
Marketing & Advertising #65/642 10 View report
Automotive & Mobility #107/373 1 From an earlier capture
Media & Publishing #147/474 1 View report
E-commerce & Retail #184/512 4 View report

AI prominence over time

How the AI prominence of HubSpot has moved across the collections so far. One point per report collection.

HubSpot in SaaS & Software

HubSpot 75.6 Top 10 in the report 70.3
0 25 50 75 100 Apr 26 May 26 Jun 26 Jul 26 Aug 26
HubSpot in SaaS & Software
Collection HubSpot Top 10 in the report
Apr 26 74.1 71.1
May 26 70.5 69.5
Jun 26 73.5 71.5
Jul 26 76.3 71.1
Aug 26 75.6 70.3

HubSpot in Marketing & Advertising

HubSpot 44.2 Top 10 in the report 60.5
0 25 50 75 100 May 26 Jun 26 Jul 26 Aug 26
HubSpot in Marketing & Advertising
Collection HubSpot Top 10 in the report
May 26 44.8 62.8
Jun 26 62.1 59.2
Jul 26 63.1 60.2
Aug 26 44.2 60.5

HubSpot in Media & Publishing

HubSpot 39.0 Top 10 in the report 64.3
0 25 50 75 100 May 26 Jun 26 Jul 26
HubSpot in Media & Publishing
Collection HubSpot Top 10 in the report
May 26 30.0 66.7
Jun 26 50.8 67.4
Jul 26 39.0 64.3

AI prominence is a 0 to 100 score combining citation frequency, position and model coverage. The dashed line is the average of the ten strongest brands in the same collection, which shows whether a movement came from the brand or from the whole market. The series only covers verticals with at least two collections. Definitions in the glossary.

Competitive context

The brands placed directly above and below HubSpot in the SaaS & Software report, by AI prominence.

Rank Brand AI prominence
#1 HubSpot 75,6
#2 Slack 71,9
#3 Zendesk 70,9
#4 Zoom 70,8
#5 sevdesk 70,7

Full ranking in the report →

From the industry reports

SaaS & Software · #1/324 · August 2026

HubSpot achieves broad visibility across all four measured AI platforms, appearing in 40% of queries with an average AI position of 3.5 that slightly outpaces its classic web search rank of 4.5. The brand maintains an overwhelmingly favorable sentiment profile, accumulating 48 positive mentions with zero negative citations.

Which AI models name HubSpot?

Distribution of citations across the AI models we query. Longer bars mean the model named HubSpot more often in its answers.

n = 65 citations total

  • Perplexity
    27 (42%)
  • Gemini
    17 (26%)
  • ChatGPT
    16 (25%)
  • Claude
    5 (8%)

Sentiment of citations

When AI answers mention HubSpot, in what tone do they do it?

n = 65 rated citations

  • positive: 56
  • neutral: 9

Tones too infrequent to be a reliable signal are not shown.

Sample queries where HubSpot was named

A cross-section of the automated queries where AI models included HubSpot in their answer.

Query Model
bestes CRM für kleine Unternehmen ChatGPT
welche E-Mail-Marketing-Software empfehlen Gemini
beste Helpdesk-Software für B2B ChatGPT
bestes Tool für Kundensupport-Automatisierung ChatGPT
beste Dokumenten-Management-Software ChatGPT

Discoverability for AI platforms

Weekly audit of the technical prerequisites that search-grounded AI platforms (live web search per query) need to find and render this site.

Last checked: 2. Aug 2026

AI-ready 5 of 5 critical checks passing · 4 of 4 important checks passing

Two crawler categories: AI live-retrieval crawlers fetch pages on demand to answer questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude; training crawlers feed model pre-training. Only the live-retrieval layer is graded here; the training tier is an editorial choice.

Critical: blocks AI visibility

  • AI live-retrieval crawlers allowed in robots.txt Your robots.txt must allow OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-User, and Claude-SearchBot. These fetch pages on demand to answer questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. Blocking any of them takes the brand's own pages out of the source pool for those answers; the brand can still be described from third-party pages.
  • No silent edge block on AI live-retrieval crawlers Even with robots.txt allowing them, the edge (Cloudflare, WAF, server) can still 403/429/503 AI bot user-agents. Most common culprit: Cloudflare's "Block AI Scrapers and Crawlers" managed rule, or Bot Fight Mode. Allow these UAs at a level above the WAF challenge rules.
  • HTTPS reachable on the homepage The homepage must be reachable over HTTPS without a redirect chain that fails. A TLS error is the one failure no crawler can work around, and retry behaviour is not documented for any of them.
  • Sitemap reachable A reachable sitemap helps AI crawlers discover internal pages beyond the homepage. We try /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml (Yoast), /wp-sitemap.xml (WordPress 5.5+), and any Sitemap: URL in robots.txt.
  • Homepage renders content without JavaScript Crawlers differ in whether they render JavaScript: OpenAI documents its fetchers as reading raw HTML, while Google-grounded answers ride a search index that does render. If the homepage is a SPA shell, the non-rendering crawlers see an empty div and have nothing to cite. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering makes the page readable to all of them; the check looks for at least 100 words and 1 heading without JS.

Important: improves capture

  • Canonical URL declared A canonical link tag tells crawlers which URL is the definitive version. Avoids citation fragmentation across www / non-www / trailing-slash variants.
  • Open Graph title and image set Open Graph title and image are what link-preview cards are built from across the web. Which AI surfaces use them, and where, is not documented per assistant; the cost of setting them is low enough that the check grades it anyway.
  • HSTS header advertised The Strict-Transport-Security header tells browsers to enforce HTTPS for future visits. Set in your web server config or via Plesk's HTTPS Strict Transport Security toggle.
  • No SPA, or a SPA with a meaningful noscript fallback When the homepage is a SPA, a noscript block with real fallback content (not just "please enable JavaScript") gives AI crawlers at least something to read. Best is server-side rendering; this is the half-measure.

Agent readiness: makes facts machine-readable

This check does not count towards AI visibility. It answers a different question: could software verify a fact about this brand without reading prose? On current evidence, structured markup does not make a brand cited more often in AI answers.

  • Organization or WebSite JSON-LD on the homepage Organization or WebSite JSON-LD on the homepage helps search engines recognize the brand as an entity (Knowledge Graph, rich results). Current evidence shows no direct effect on grounded-LLM citations; those models read the visible page text, not the JSON-LD. Still useful SERP hygiene; add via schema.org markup in the head.

Training-crawler status (informational, not graded): 0 / 5 blockiert.

Diagnostics

JSON-LD types
Organization, WebSite, WebPage, Product

SEO hygiene; per Google not a direct lever for AI citations.

Sitemap
3.009 URLs
llms.txt (informational)
present

Per Google, no effect on AI visibility; tracked here for information only.

Encryption
HTTPS ✓ · HSTS ✓

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All figures come from Achtung.app's published vertical reports. Achtung.app runs standardized, brand-free queries against AI models and classic web search, extracts named brands, and consolidates them on their canonical domain. Details in the methodology document.