Cooper tracks how AI assistants rank QuickBooks Payroll across 4 buyer questions in 1 software category, with 12 verified mentions from 10 sources.
| Question | Rank | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 24 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 12 | No change | |
| Best | 4 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | 7 | 7 | No change |
| Most affordable | 7 | 14 | 6 | - | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | Down 2 positions |
| Easiest to set up | 29 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | Down 1 position | |
| Rising | Not ranked | ||||||||
Verified placements earned across weekly category rankings.
Reporting and research from Cooper’s weekly software recommendation index.
The first official week-over-week reading of Cooper's software recommendation index, with verified leadership movement across all eight hubs and assistant agreement kept separate from raw AIQ.
Eight category-relative Rising AIQ movements show where emerging software recommendations changed across Cooper's second immutable weekly edition.
A category-by-category reading of all ten Week 29 Sales software markets, with verified Top 3 rankings, assistant splits, evidence counts, and the first official week-over-week movements.
A Week 29 analysis of how the public evidence footprint changed across one representative software market in each of Cooper’s eight hubs.
