Subcategory · AI Citation Index
Robotic Process Automation
Uipath dominates RPA shortlists at 81% while evaluation scores collapse from 69 in April to 17 in June.
165 discovery queries · 140 head-to-heads · refreshed Jul 24, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 165 buyer-style "Robotic Process Automation" queries
Uipath appears in 133 of 165 prompts (81% shortlist rate) with 607 total mentions across all four major models, triple the reach of Microsoft Power Automate at 62%. The middle tier fragments hard: usestable.com (19%), Appian (18%), and sapstore.com (15%) cluster without clear differentiation, while 22 brands achieve consensus status across the 165-prompt test set.
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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.
Evaluation stage
Head-to-head
How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 7/100
Uipath and Microsoft Power Automate tie at 43 average evaluation score across 24 head-to-head queries, 26% above category median of 7. Stable and ServiceNow both score 34 across 19 comparisons, while Appian (18, 10 queries) and Capacity (16, 9 queries) trail despite solid shortlist presence. The gap between shortlist frequency and evaluation performance widens past the top four.
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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.
Brands to know
In this category
Uipath
Commands 81% shortlist rate and ties for highest evaluation score at 43 across 24 queries. Appears in 607 mentions with maximum model diversity, establishing clear category leadership.
Read brand profile →Microsoft Power Automate
Matches Uipath's 43 evaluation score despite 62% shortlist rate and 361 mentions. Low unCited score of 21 suggests evaluation strength doesn't translate to overall citation performance.
Read brand profile →Blueprism
Scored 63 overall with +11 momentum in recent trends data. Despite strong fundamentals, absent from top-10 shortlist (zero appearances reported), indicating niche or query-specific relevance.
Read brand profile →Automationanywhere
Scores 66 overall but missing from both shortlist top-10 and evaluation leaderboard. The disconnect suggests legacy brand equity without current AI-model recommendation traction.
Read brand profile →Appian
18% shortlist rate (29 prompts) but only 18 average evaluation score across 10 queries, 58% below Uipath. Appears in middle-tier cluster without performance differentiation.
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