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How often did the OpenAI API recommend Less Annoying CRM?

Less Annoying CRM ranked #8 by recommendation reach and #8 by first-choice credit across three waves. It appeared in 4.0% of 600 accepted answers and was strongest for cost and value prompts at 14.2%.

Reach rank 8 · first-choice rank 8Observed September 8, 2026gpt-5.6-luna

Research and publication by Benchmark Bureau · Reviewed September 15, 2026 · Report a correction

Overall measured position

Recommendation estimate
4.0%
Recommendation 95% CI
2.8%–5.3%
First-choice estimate
1.2%
First-choice 95% CI
0.5%–2.0%

Recommendation and first-choice estimates answer different questions. Their intervals resample whole prompts within the frozen scale-and-priority strata; they do not represent website traffic, buyer conversion, customer satisfaction, or market share.

The practical reading

Signal

Low-frequency evidence with substantial uncertainty

Less Annoying CRM appeared too infrequently for narrow estimates to carry the same precision as the leaders, so the most valuable conclusion is the size of the current evidence gap.

Decision use

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Movement from the August baseline

August recommendation
2.0%
September recommendation
4.0%
Recommendation change
+2.0 pp
Change 95% interval
-0.3 pp to +4.0 pp

The comparison uses the same 200 buyer prompts. August contains one answer per prompt; September repeats every prompt in three timed waves. The change interval resamples whole prompts within the frozen scale-and-priority strata.

Where the product was strongest

Company scale

Micro business

10.0% recommendation estimate · rank #7 across 120 accepted answers.

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Buying priority

Cost and value

14.2% recommendation estimate · rank #7 across 120 accepted answers.

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Where recommendation reach was lowest

Company scale

Mid-market

Less Annoying CRM was recommended in 0.0% · rank #16across 120 accepted answers.

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Buying priority

Sales execution

Less Annoying CRM was recommended in 0.0% · rank #17across 120 accepted answers.

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A lower estimate identifies where the product entered fewer measured recommendation sets. It does not show why, establish product weakness, or prove that any marketing change would alter future answers.

Measured variation by buyer context

Less Annoying CRM by company scale
ContextRankRecommendedFirst choice
Micro business710.0%3.3%
Small business78.3%2.5%
Growth company91.7%0.0%
Mid-market160.0%0.0%
Upper market170.0%0.0%
Less Annoying CRM by buying priority
ContextRankRecommendedFirst choice
Cost and value714.2%5.8%
Fast adoption105.8%0.0%
Sales execution170.0%0.0%
Integration170.0%0.0%
Governance170.0%0.0%

The source environment around cost and value answers

This was Less Annoying CRM's strongest measured buying-priority context. The source summary describes all accepted answers in that context, not sources uniquely associated with Less Annoying CRM.

120answers with citations

728inline citations

89distinct domains

98.5%vendor-owned citation share

Most-cited domains in cost and value

  1. hubspot.com152 citations
  2. pipedrive.com149 citations
  3. zoho.com139 citations
  4. freshworks.com77 citations
  5. help.zoho.com45 citations

This describes the source environment across all accepted answers in this context. It does not measure product-specific source influence or prove that a citation caused a recommendation.

Evidence gaps and the next question

The benchmark does not measure current price, implementation effort, feature quality, security posture, customer outcomes, or why the model selected a product. A useful next step is to test whether Less Annoying CRM's measured strength for micro business and cost and value persists under prompts that reflect your actual operating constraints and named competitors.

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