2 categories · RankedProductive
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional services automation | Receivables and billing | 12% | 3 of 99 | 0% | 23 | accepted challenger | |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 2% | 17 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 33% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Productive across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“The best financial reporting software for a company with a limited budget includes Productive, Sage Intacct, Datarails, Fathom, and Zoho Books.” Llama 4 Maverick · Financial reporting · budget prompt · first choice
“Productive stands out as one of the most affordable full-featured professional services automation (PSA) platforms” Grok 4.1 Fast · PSA · budget prompt · first choice
“Best Overall Value (True PSA Features): Productive ... widely considered the best fit for SMBs” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PSA · budget prompt · first choice
“Productive (starting at $9/user/month) or Teamwork.com ... offer the best overall value” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PSA · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Productive, over the 58 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Productive was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 58 of the 58 answers that named Productive and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
232 of the 264 domain citations in answers naming Productive came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
productive.io ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Productive takes 12% of first choices and BigTime takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“productive”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,234,021 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 102,038 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,339 · 893 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,094
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 44 clicks and $1,647 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 15 across its categories
- Named in
- 58 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 58 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,288 | 28 | 2026-09-27 | ||
| Comparison | 188 | 2 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 63 | 6 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Case study | 46 | 1 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 28 | 0 | 2023-11-20 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 0 | 2026-06-09 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | 3 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2022-02-28 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-27Project milestones definition examples strategies blog
- 2026-09-27Project management plan blog
- 2026-09-27How to choose project management software blog
- 2026-09-25Operational metrics blog
- 2026-09-2410165118 peppol sending invoices via the peppol network glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-2310175039 marking a budget as invoiced glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page productive.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Productive
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Productive is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Agency Management & Professional Services Automation Software
- For
- agencies, consultancies, and other professional services businesses
- Price stated
- Free 14-day trial. No credit card required. Cancel any time. productive.io
- Starting price
- $10 /month productive.io/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial. No credit card required. Cancel any time. productive.io
- Integrations claimed
- 1000 productive.io/pricing
- Certifications
- GDPR ComplianceSOC 2 Type II ComplianceSOC 2 Compliance
- Customers named
- SaffronMakerstreet Marketing & InnovationDegordianSquare1 SoftwareEnkiPorsche Digital CroatiaInnovate By DaySNCE
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Productive's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: productive.io, productive.io/pricing, trust.productive.io, productive.io/use-cases/reporting, productive.io/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Productive's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Productive, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Productive by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Productive is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Productive, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Productive is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Productive is among the products AI models recommend first in Professional services automation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.