Subcategory · AI Citation Index

AI Agents

The AI Agents category reflects enterprise urgency to operationalize autonomous systems, with established platforms like Intercom, Make, and ServiceNow commanding 54-57% shortlist rates across diverse model ecosystems (all showing 4-model diversity). The category's breadth—66 consensus brands spanning customer service, workflow automation, and development frameworks—reveals fragmentation between vertical-specific solutions and horizontal orchestration layers. However, 0% prompt coverage against only 12 evaluation brands suggests buyers lack standardized assessment frameworks, relying instead on brand recognition and existing vendor relationships to navigate this rapidly consolidating space.

171 discovery queries · 242 head-to-heads · refreshed Jun 1, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 171 buyer-style "AI Agents" queries

6%17%29%40%52%Coverage — share of discovery prompts where the brand surfaces62%69%76%82%89%Engine diversity

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions
Tracked acrossChatGPT,Gemini,Claude

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Signal by intent

By topic

Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.

1Intercom
6/7
2Handoff
6/7
3Gorgias
5/7
4Base
5/7
5Tidio
4/7
1Intercom
6/6
2ServiceNow
6/6
3Reply
5/6
4Microsoft
5/6
5LangChain
5/6
1Make
4/6
2ServiceNow
2/6
3Glean
2/6
4Intercom
2/6
5Default
2/6
1LangChain
6/6
2Collect
5/6
3LlamaIndex
5/6
4Turn
5/6
5Make
5/6
1Make
6/6
2Uipath
6/6
3Microsoft
6/6
4ServiceNow
6/6
5CrewAI
5/6
1Make
5/5
2AutoGen
5/5
3CrewAI
5/5
4ServiceNow
5/5
5LangChain
4/5
1Uipath
5/5
2Make
5/5
3Intercom
5/5
4ServiceNow
5/5
5LangChain
3/5
1Intercom
5/5
2Salesforce
5/5
3ChatBot
4/5
4Base
4/5
5Tidio
4/5
≥50% cited
25–49%
<25%
Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · ai-agents

Evaluation stage

Head-to-head

How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 7/100

0255075100Evaluation citation rate — % of category evaluation prompts citing this brand07152229Evaluation prompts cited inmedian citation ratemedian exposure

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X = evaluation citation rate · Y = evaluation prompts cited in · Bubble size = citation exposure
Median citation rate 7/100

Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.

Citation sources

Where AI pulls citations from

728 citations captured across AI Agents prompt runs.

Vendor pages

195

Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors

Independent sources

144

Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned

Buyer questions

What AI cites for top AI Agents questions

Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.

Discovery

Buyers exploring the category

Evaluation

Buyers comparing options

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