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  "measuredOn": "2026-08-25",
  "method": "Six buyer questions per category, put to five assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Mode). Every answer stored. A citation is counted when the brand name appears as written in an answer. Monthly organic traffic is the DataForSEO Labs estimate for the brand's root domain, United States, same day. Brands per category are the ones the assistants named most often, not a list we chose.",
  "limits": "Four categories, seventeen brands. Citation counts come from one run per category, so they are a snapshot, not an average over time. At these sample sizes no correlation reported here reaches statistical significance, and none is claimed to.",
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      "category": "project management software",
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          "brand": "ClickUp",
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          "brand": "Trello",
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