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Public Sales Intelligence brand benchmark

Ranks a reviewed Sales Intelligence brand universe using a fixed, public set of neutral commercial prompts across 3 AI providers.

4-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583

Version

Jul 27, 2026

Published

7

Boards

public-sales-intelligence-platforms

Method ID

Where the facts come from

Providers
  • Provider

    openai

    Configured Model

    openai/gpt-4o-mini

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Configured Model

    anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5

  • Provider

    gemini

    Configured Model

    google/gemini-2.5-flash

Provider Views
  • Provider

    openai

    Board Slug

    sales-intelligence-platforms-brand-openai-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-openai-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Board Slug

    sales-intelligence-platforms-brand-anthropic-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-anthropic-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    gemini

    Board Slug

    sales-intelligence-platforms-brand-gemini-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-gemini-brand-recommendation-presence

Provider Matrix Version

64232fd32583

How the order is produced

recommendation-prompt presence descending; mention coverage, engine breadth, mention share, citation share, then entity slug

When the method reruns

  • The prompt boards are re-run in rotation, about one category a day, so each board refreshes every few weeks and shows the date of its snapshot.

Boards

Boards using this version

BoardPrimary measureRowsConfidenceSnapshotBoard versionRefreshBoard
Sales intelligence platform rankpublic-prompt-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence platform rank
Sales intelligence presencepublic-prompt-brand-mention-coverage12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence presence
Sales intelligence citation sharepublic-prompt-brand-citation-share12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence citation share
Sales intelligence engine breadthpublic-prompt-brand-engine-breadth12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence engine breadth
Sales intelligence vendors in OpenAI model API answerspublic-prompt-openai-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence vendors in OpenAI model API answers
Sales intelligence vendors in Anthropic model API answerspublic-prompt-anthropic-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence vendors in Anthropic model API answers
Sales intelligence vendors in Gemini model API answerspublic-prompt-gemini-brand-recommendation-presence12100%Sep 26, 20264-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583Rotating scheduleOpen the board: Sales intelligence vendors in Gemini model API answers

Versioned contract

Complete measurement ledger

Cohort

Not specified.

Prompts

  • Slug

    best-sales-intelligence-platform

    Text

    Which sales intelligence platforms are best for finding, researching, enriching, and prioritizing B2B accounts and contacts?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-contact-data

    Text

    Recommend a B2B data provider with broad company and contact coverage, verified email and phone data, and measurable freshness.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-europe-compliance

    Text

    Which sales intelligence vendors are strongest for European prospecting with appropriate data provenance, privacy, and compliance controls?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-buyer-intent

    Text

    Recommend a sales intelligence platform for account intent, website activity, buying-stage signals, prioritization, and CRM activation.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-relationship-data

    Text

    Which sales tools are best for relationship intelligence, warm paths, job-change signals, account research, and seller workflows?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-enrichment-workflows

    Text

    Recommend a data enrichment platform that can combine multiple providers, waterfall lookups, AI research, scoring, and CRM workflows.

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-enterprise

    Text

    Which sales intelligence platforms best support a global enterprise with governance, territories, CRM administration, APIs, and usage controls?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-startup

    Text

    What sales intelligence tool should a startup evaluate for useful coverage, fast setup, transparent cost, sequencing, and low administration?

    Intent

    recommendation

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-buying-criteria

    Text

    Compare sales intelligence platforms on coverage, accuracy, freshness, intent, workflows, integrations, compliance, APIs, and support.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-pricing

    Text

    How should a buyer compare sales intelligence pricing across seats, credits, exports, enrichments, intent signals, APIs, and premium data?

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-data-test

    Text

    Create a blind proof-of-concept scorecard for measuring contact coverage, deliverability, phone accuracy, freshness, match rate, and bias.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-intent-validation

    Text

    Compare how sales intelligence vendors source, score, timestamp, explain, and validate account and person-level buying intent.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-lock-in

    Text

    Which criteria expose data portability, contract, credit, and workflow lock-in risk when choosing a sales intelligence platform?

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-privacy

    Text

    Compare sales data vendors on provenance, lawful basis, consent, suppression, deletion, residency, auditability, and regional restrictions.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-enterprise-shortlist

    Text

    Create a shortlist of sales intelligence vendors for a global revenue team consolidating contact data, intent, enrichment, and research.

    Intent

    commercial

  • Slug

    sales-intelligence-stack-consolidation

    Text

    When should a company consolidate prospect data, enrichment, intent, account research, scoring, and sequencing on one revenue platform?

    Intent

    commercial

Category

sales-intelligence-platforms

Providers

  • Provider

    openai

    Configured Model

    openai/gpt-4o-mini

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Configured Model

    anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5

  • Provider

    gemini

    Configured Model

    google/gemini-2.5-flash

Cost Policy

Cost Basis

Provider-reported LLM cost returned by the existing AI Rank provider/cache layer.

Maximum Daily Billed Cost Usd

2.00

Maximum Daily Provider Calls

60

Maximum Daily Provider Attempts Including Retries

72

Limitations

  • This is one response per prompt/provider pair in each run; model output can vary between runs.
  • The fixed 16-prompt Sales Intelligence category does not estimate general market share or brand awareness.
  • Presence share and citation share are relative only to the reviewed 12-brand universe; untracked brands are excluded from those denominators.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are both evaluated brands and configured model providers; no self-provider bias correction is applied.

Rank Formula

recommendation-prompt presence descending; mention coverage, engine breadth, mention share, citation share, then entity slug

Answer Policy

Published Evidence

answer hashes, deterministic bounded brand counts, and deduplicated URL-derived citation counts

Full Provider Answers Published

No

Full Provider Answers Stored In Public Index

No

Corpus Version

sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27

Provider Views

  • Provider

    openai

    Board Slug

    sales-intelligence-platforms-brand-openai-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-openai-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    anthropic

    Board Slug

    sales-intelligence-platforms-brand-anthropic-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-anthropic-brand-recommendation-presence

  • Provider

    gemini

    Board Slug

    sales-intelligence-platforms-brand-gemini-visibility

    Primary Metric Slug

    public-prompt-gemini-brand-recommendation-presence

Runner Version

4

Canonical Brands

  • Name

    ZoomInfo

    Aliases
    • ZoomInfo
    • ZoomInfo Sales
    Entity Slug

    zoominfo

    Primary Domain

    zoominfo.com

    Citation Domains
    • zoominfo.com
    Case Sensitive Aliases
    • Name

      Apollo.io

      Aliases
      • Apollo.io
      • Apollo
      Entity Slug

      apollo-io

      Primary Domain

      apollo.io

      Citation Domains
      • apollo.io
      • knowledge.apollo.io
      Case Sensitive Aliases
      • Apollo
    • Name

      LinkedIn Sales Navigator

      Aliases
      • LinkedIn Sales Navigator
      • Sales Navigator
      Entity Slug

      linkedin-sales-navigator

      Primary Domain

      linkedin.com

      Citation Domains
      • linkedin.com
      • business.linkedin.com
      Case Sensitive Aliases
      • Sales Navigator
    • Name

      Cognism

      Aliases
      • Cognism
      Entity Slug

      cognism

      Primary Domain

      cognism.com

      Citation Domains
      • cognism.com
      Case Sensitive Aliases
      • Name

        6sense

        Aliases
        • 6sense
        • 6sense Revenue AI
        Entity Slug

        6sense

        Primary Domain

        6sense.com

        Citation Domains
        • 6sense.com
        • support.6sense.com
        Case Sensitive Aliases
        • Name

          Demandbase

          Aliases
          • Demandbase
          • Demandbase One
          Entity Slug

          demandbase

          Primary Domain

          demandbase.com

          Citation Domains
          • demandbase.com
          • support.demandbase.com
          Case Sensitive Aliases
          • Name

            Clay

            Aliases
            • Clay
            • Claygent
            Entity Slug

            clay

            Primary Domain

            clay.com

            Citation Domains
            • clay.com
            • university.clay.com
            Case Sensitive Aliases
            • Clay
            • Claygent
          • Name

            HubSpot Breeze Intelligence

            Aliases
            • HubSpot Breeze Intelligence
            • Breeze Intelligence
            Entity Slug

            hubspot-breeze-intelligence

            Primary Domain

            hubspot.com

            Citation Domains
            • hubspot.com
            • knowledge.hubspot.com
            Case Sensitive Aliases
            • Breeze Intelligence
          • Name

            Lusha

            Aliases
            • Lusha
            Entity Slug

            lusha

            Primary Domain

            lusha.com

            Citation Domains
            • lusha.com
            • info.lusha.com
            Case Sensitive Aliases
            • Name

              LeadIQ

              Aliases
              • LeadIQ
              Entity Slug

              leadiq

              Primary Domain

              leadiq.com

              Citation Domains
              • leadiq.com
              Case Sensitive Aliases
              • Name

                SalesIntel

                Aliases
                • SalesIntel
                Entity Slug

                salesintel

                Primary Domain

                salesintel.io

                Citation Domains
                • salesintel.io
                Case Sensitive Aliases
                • Name

                  Crunchbase

                  Aliases
                  • Crunchbase
                  • Crunchbase Business
                  Entity Slug

                  crunchbase

                  Primary Domain

                  crunchbase.com

                  Citation Domains
                  • crunchbase.com
                  • support.crunchbase.com
                  Case Sensitive Aliases

                  Benchmark Version

                  4-sales-intelligence-platforms-2026-07-27-models-64232fd32583

                  Evaluation Surface

                  Search

                  A common Rank.ai web-search tool is available to all three configured models.

                  Gateway

                  Rank.ai's configured OpenRouter-compatible gateway

                  Not Consumer Products

                  Results measure the configured model/API runs, not the ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini consumer application interfaces.

                  Strict Completeness

                  Prompt Count

                  16

                  Provider Count

                  3

                  Required Successful Runs

                  48

                  Measurement Semantics

                  Confidence

                  A value of 1.0 means the complete frozen cohort passed the deterministic extraction and publication gates; it is not a statistical confidence interval.

                  Citation Share Denominator

                  Distinct answer-level HTTP(S) citation URLs whose URL-derived hostname matches any reviewed brand domain.

                  Presence Share Denominator

                  The sum of reviewed-brand answer-presences. One answer may contribute presence to multiple brands.

                  Mention Coverage Denominator

                  48 answers: all 16 prompts multiplied by 3 configured providers.

                  Provider Citation Share Denominator

                  Distinct reviewed-brand-domain citations within the named configured model API provider's 20-answer cohort.

                  Recommendation Presence Denominator

                  24 answers: recommendation-intent prompts multiplied by 3 configured providers.

                  Provider Mention Coverage Denominator

                  16 prompts for the named configured model API provider.

                  Provider Recommendation Presence Denominator

                  8 recommendation-intent prompts for the named configured model API provider.

                  Provider Matrix Version

                  64232fd32583

                  Recommendation Semantics

                  Presence means mentioned or cited in an answer to a recommendation-intent prompt. It does not claim positive recommendation, endorsement, or sentiment.

                  Enter your website. In about two minutes, Rank.ai asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini 12 questions your customers ask and grades how often they name you.

                  • Your grade out of 100How often AI names you, cites your site, and how high it ranks you.
                  • Who gets namedEvery competitor in the answers, most named first.
                  • The pages AI readsThe sources behind each answer.
                  • Three fixesWhat to fix first, with a brief for the first article.