Cooper tracks how AI assistants rank Square Payroll across 4 buyer questions in 1 software category, with 8 verified mentions from 7 sources.
| Question | Rank | AIQ | ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude | Perplexity | Sources | Mentions | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 4 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | Up 1 position |
| Best | 6 | 11 | - | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | New this week |
| Most affordable | 32 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | No change | |
| Easiest to set up | 4 | 27 | 3 | - | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | Down 1 position |
| Rising | 19 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 2 | Down 2 positions |
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.
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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.
