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Industry report · Data as of 2. May 2026

SaaS & Software

Freshdesk wird in dieser Branche 15× von KIs empfohlen, in der Brave-Websuche taucht die Marke aber nicht auf.

HubSpot ist die am häufigsten genannte Marke in den KI-Antworten, ist jedoch nicht in den Top 10 der klassischen Websuche vertreten. Ein deutliches Muster zeigt sich darin, dass die KI-Assistenten ausschließlich spezifische Softwareprodukte empfehlen und keine allgemeinen Informationsportale oder Vergleichsseiten anführen, obwohl die Suchanfragen nach breiten Empfehlungen verlangen. Über alle Top-Marken hinweg ist zudem ein durchgehend positives Sentiment ohne negative Nennungen festzustellen.

Queries
15
brand-free, per model
Sample
149
answers analysed
AI models
3
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity

AI prominence in this industry

Consolidated visibility score per brand on a 0–100 scale. Blends: how often the brand is named, across how many AI models, at what position, and in what sentiment. Two further factors (recommendation strength, momentum) cannot be measured here and remain hidden.

# Brand Prominence Tier
1 Zendesk
zendesk.com
72.2 Big Name
2 Zoom
zoom.us
70.8 Big Name
3 sevdesk
sevdesk.de
70.6 Big Name
4 HubSpot
hubspot.com
70.5 Big Name
5 Zoho
zoho.com
69.1 Big Name
6 Gusto
gusto.com
69.0 Big Name
7 Pipedrive
pipedrive.com
68.8 Big Name
8 Microsoft
microsoft.com
68.3 Big Name
9 Lexware Office
name:lexware-office
68.2 Big Name
10 Google Workspace
meet.google.com
67.4 Big Name

Same brands, different visibility

Brands present in both channels, normalised to the per-channel peak and sorted by asymmetry. A long AI bar next to a short web-search bar means the brand is named disproportionately often by AI models even though it barely appears in organic web-search results. The reverse holds too.

AI citations Classic web search
Zendesk
zendesk.de
Freshworks
freshworks.com
IONOS
ionos.de
Zoho
zoho.com
DATALINE
dataline.de
Pipedrive
pipedrive.com
eesel AI
eesel.ai
HiBob
hibob.com
Clockify
clockify.me
Bitrix24
bitrix24.de

Normalised per channel to the peak · sorted by |Δ|

ChatGPT citations Classic web search
Freshworks
freshworks.com
Zoho
zoho.com
Pipedrive
pipedrive.com
Clockify
clockify.me
Zendesk
zendesk.de
sevdesk
sevdesk.de
ClickUp
clickup.com
HiBob
hibob.com
HelpDesk
helpdesk.com
eDesk
edesk.com

Normalised per channel to the peak · sorted by |Δ|

Gemini citations Classic web search
Zoho
zoho.com
awork
awork.com
Freshworks
freshworks.com
HiBob
hibob.com
Memtime
memtime.com
sevdesk
sevdesk.de
Papierkram
papierkram.de
Pipedrive
pipedrive.com
Clockify
clockify.me
Slack
slack.com

Normalised per channel to the peak · sorted by |Δ|

Perplexity citations Classic web search
awork
awork.com
Pipedrive
pipedrive.com
Zoho
zoho.com
HiBob
hibob.com
Clockify
clockify.me
Memtime
memtime.com
Leapsome
leapsome.com
Chatarmin
chatarmin.com
sevdesk
sevdesk.de
ClickUp
clickup.com

Normalised per channel to the peak · sorted by |Δ|

AI top 10 vs. web-search top 10

On the left, the brands named most often in AI answers; on the right, the brands most visible in classic web-search results. Pink lines connect brands that appear in both top-10 lists.

8 AI only 2 in both 8 web search only

AI top 10
Web-search top 10

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Methodology

Achtung.app sends typical German-language queries for each industry to classic web search and to the active AI models. Queries are brand-free, so results show which providers are recommended organically. Both channels receive identical prompts so answers can be compared directly. Every brand named in the responses is extracted and consolidated on its canonical domain. The classic-web-search source is Brave Search, a Google-independent organic index.

Pro Anfrage werden 3 Durchläufe je KI-Modell abgefragt; die klassische Websuche mit einem einzelnen Top-10-Abruf. Abgefragte Modelle: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. Plattformen und Infrastruktur (z.B. Google Analytics, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok) erscheinen nicht in der Markenliste, da sie Marketingkanäle sind, keine Wettbewerber.

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