AEO visibility for Less Annoying CRM: whether the AI answer engines name it when a buyer asks, counted rather than estimated.
26.5% of the 132 answers in Small business CRMs named it, measured 6 Aug 2026. It is also named in 2 other categories.
That first line is decided by one comparison and nothing else: the answers that named it, against the answers that did not — whichever count is larger is what it says, and equal counts get both. It is the same comparison on every page here, made from figures the board below has already published and no others. The rule, and the one line of shell that reruns it →
Nothing here is a score we assigned. Every number below is a count of answers, and every answer is published word for word on the category page it came from.
Less Annoying CRM is absent from 97 of the 132 answers on this page, and this page does not say who was named in them. Ask and I read those 97 answers myself and send you the products that were named instead. No card, nothing is charged and nothing starts.
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| Category | Rank | Answers | Share | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small business CRMs
ChatGPT 13 of 44, Gemini 11 of 44, Perplexity 11 of 44 · measured 6 Aug 2026 |
4 of 63 | 35 of 132 | 26.5% | 17 of 44 |
| CRMs for a buyer who named their industry and their existing systems
ChatGPT 5 of 44, Gemini 5 of 44, Perplexity 4 of 44 · measured 9 Aug 2026 |
7 of 105 | 14 of 132 | 10.6% | 10 of 44 |
| CRMs for a buyer with confidential customer data
ChatGPT 1 of 44, Gemini 0 of 44, Perplexity 2 of 44 · measured 7 Aug 2026 |
20 of 95 | 3 of 132 | 2.3% | 3 of 44 |
“Answers” is how many of that category’s answers named this product. “Questions” is how many of its distinct buying questions named it at least once. Each category is asked twice from scratch and is only published if the top ten reproduces.
The 44 buying questions on the small business CRMs board split in two by one mechanical rule, applied the same way on every board and using nothing at all about any product: 8 of them are asked in the first person — the buyer describes their own company and asks what to buy, so the question opens with “We”, “I”, “Our” or “My”. The other 36 ask about the category or a feature. The rule, and the one line of shell that reruns it →
| Question kind | Questions | Answers | Named Less Annoying CRM |
|---|---|---|---|
| The buyer describes their own company | 8 | 24 | 3 (12.5%) |
| Category and feature questions | 36 | 108 | 32 (29.6%) |
Both rows are counted at build time from mentions-runA.jsonl, the same file linked at the bottom of the board, and they add back to the 35 of 132 answers in the table above.
Less Annoying CRM is named in 3 of the 24 answers to the 8 questions where the buyer describes their own company, and in 32 of the 108 answers to the other 36, which ask about the category or a feature — 12.5% against 29.6%. In those 24 answers the engines named Pipedrive 24 times and HubSpot CRM 23 times.
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Start monitoringThe pages Perplexity read while it was naming somebody else — the sources Perplexity cited in the answers Less Annoying CRM was absent from, and which of those pages name Less Annoying CRM and which do not. Then Less Annoying CRM's own row, read out of the published run of 6 Aug 2026: its split by engine and by phrasing, with the verbatim answer under each. ChatGPT and Gemini return no source list, so the cited pages are Perplexity's alone.
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Vendors search for this as answer engine optimization (AEO), or generative engine optimization (GEO). Both names mean the same thing: being named when a buyer asks an AI instead of typing into a search engine. This page is the measurement, not the work — we count who the engines named across Small business CRMs and publish every answer the count came from, so Less Annoying CRM's number can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Source: the Small business CRMs board and the raw files linked at the bottom of it — every answer, the product names extracted from each answer, and the machine-readable ranking these numbers are read from.