Business Intelligence
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ73Named by 1 of 4 assistants
AIQ55Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ33
+6 more products
AI-recommended Engineering Software
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity rank 148 products across 10 Engineering categories in the Edition 4 snapshot for Week 31, August 2, 2026, backed by 1,177 cited pages from 612 domains.
Data Integration (ETL)
Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ75Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ30Named by 3 of 4 assistants
AIQ20
+8 more products
Observability & APM
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ88Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ62Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ34
+16 more products
CI/CD
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ93Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ43Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ30
+11 more products
Feature Flags
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ100Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ46
Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ31
+8 more products
Low-Code App Builders
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ70Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ70Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ40
+16 more products
Cloud Hosting (PaaS)
Named by 1 of 4 assistants
AIQ55Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ40Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ33
+10 more products
Product Management
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ90Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ47
Named by 1 of 4 assistants
AIQ28
+13 more products
API Platforms
Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ67Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ30Named by 1 of 4 assistants
AIQ25
+11 more products
Database as a Service
Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ63Named by 2 of 4 assistants
AIQ43Named by 4 of 4 assistants
AIQ40
+9 more products
Movers in Edition 4
Most Improved
Up 7 positions
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Up 4 positions
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Spots Lost
Down 8 positions
Down 8 positions- Down 7 positions
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Down 6 positions
- Down 5 positions
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This Edition’s News
Reporting from Cooper’s Edition 4 software recommendation index.
Index Update
The Cooper Index, Edition 4: How AI Recommendations Changed Across 80 Software Categories
Edition 4 measures what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity recommend across 80 business software categories, separating Best, Most Affordable, Easiest to Set Up, and Rising into four direct rankings.
Rising AIQ
Edition 4 Rising AIQ Report
Eight category-relative Rising AIQ findings show where emerging-product recommendations strengthened in Cooper’s fourth immutable edition.
Category Report
Edition 4 Engineering Software Report
A category-by-category reading of all ten Edition 4 Engineering markets, with Best Top 3 tables and separate Most Affordable, Easiest to Set Up, and Rising analysis.