Insightly Appears in 22.1% of AI Answers. Here's Our Five-Step Plan to Improve Its AI Visibility.

Mark HuntleyBy Mark HuntleyFounder and CEO
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Key Takeaways

  • Insightly is mentioned in 22.06% of benchmark answers, but recommended in only 5.51%, showing a gap between presence and endorsement.
  • Most Insightly mentions are neutral, and no negative framing was recorded, so the main issue is not tone but weak recommendation rates.
  • The strongest content opportunities center on monday.com comparisons, top CRM lists, and buyer questions where Insightly appears but is rarely endorsed.
  • The plan starts with verification and page review, then moves to approved briefs for company pages, publisher requests, and buyer-focused content.

Answer Capsule

In November 2026, Insightly appeared in 60 of 272 AI answers included in the CRM Software benchmark (22.06%). It received 15 recommendations (5.51%), with 3 Top 3 placements and 1 first-place recommendations. A mention means the company appeared in an answer; a recommendation means the answer affirmatively endorsed it.

Our plan compares the company with its competitors, checks conflicting AI claims against reliable sources, and identifies website pages, third-party sources and buyer questions to address. The historical results show how the figures changed across available months. Different monthly samples limit those comparisons, and conflicting AI claims require verification before corrections are proposed.

Current AI visibility

Questions This Section Answers

  • How do Insightly mentions, recommendations and placements compare with its CRM Software peers?

Insightly recorded 60 mentions (22.06%) and 15 recommendations (5.51%) across 272 answers included in the benchmark. Top 3 placements numbered 3; first-place recommendations numbered 1. Framing among its mentions was 24 positive, 36 neutral and 0 negative.

Rank

Company

Mentions

Mention rate

Recommendations

Recommendation rate

Top 3

Top 3 rate

#1

#1 rate

1

Pipedrive

156

57.35%

64

23.53%

33

12.13%

13

4.78%

2

HubSpot Live Chat

204

75.00%

62

22.79%

52

19.12%

33

12.13%

3

Salesforce Service Cloud

198

72.79%

53

19.49%

36

13.24%

26

9.56%

4

monday.com

138

50.74%

50

18.38%

17

6.25%

10

3.68%

5

Zoho Inventory

187

68.75%

30

11.03%

22

8.09%

7

2.57%

6

Freshdesk

115

42.28%

16

5.88%

10

3.68%

5

1.84%

7

Insightly

60

22.06%

15

5.51%

3

1.10%

1

0.37%

8

SugarCRM

26

9.56%

6

2.21%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

9

Keap

28

10.29%

5

1.84%

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

10

Microsoft Power Apps

91

33.46%

2

0.74%

1

0.37%

0

0.00%

Insightly appears in roughly one in five answers, yet it is recommended far less often than it is mentioned. That gap is the central finding: the brand is present in the conversation but rarely endorsed. Reach and endorsement are separate measures, and closing the distance between them is the practical opportunity.

Placement is thinner still. Only a small share of mentions land in the top three, and first-place appearances are rarer again. Those positions sit inside the recommendation count rather than adding to it. For a buyer scanning a shortlist, being named without a strong position offers limited advantage. Framing is not the problem: most mentions are neutral and none are negative, so the wording around Insightly is not working against it.

The proposed work is to build clear, verifiable reasons for answer engines to endorse the product, and to check those reasons against current primary sources before any page brief is written.

What changed since last month

Questions This Section Answers

  • How did Insightly counts and coverage differ across the available monthly snapshots?

Metric

Nov 2026

Mentions

60 / 272 (22.06%)

Recommendations

15 / 272 (5.51%)

Top 3 recommendations

3 / 272 (1.10%)

#1 recommendations

1 / 272 (0.37%)

Only months with verified results are shown. Monthly sample coverage is listed in Methodology.

There are insufficient usable monthly observations for a prior-period comparison.

This is the first verified monthly reading for Insightly, so there is no prior period to compare against. The figures describe a single selected sample rather than a trend. Treat them as a starting point to measure future movement against, not as evidence of direction.

Because earlier months measured different company sets, they cannot serve as a baseline. Any change reported next month will reflect a different sample as well as any real shift, and the two cannot be separated. The honest reading is that the current position is now documented and can be tracked going forward.

AI recommendation trend

Observed recommendation rate (%), Nov 2026

  • Insightlyno change
    Nov 20265.51%

Separate selected monthly samples. Missing points are unavailable, not zero. Provider/prompt equivalence is unverified; rate movement does not demonstrate causation.

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Step 1. Measure

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  • What should the agency measure and verify first for Insightly?

AI answers contained 0 conflicting claims about Insightly: 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 0 low. Of these, 0 were rated critical or high priority; the critical claims are included in that total. These ratings help prioritize fact-checking. They do not establish that a company or publisher made an error.

No conflicting claims about Insightly surfaced in the captured answers, so there is no immediate fact-checking backlog. That is a clean starting position, but it also means the measurement work should focus on comparison rather than repair. A visibility scorecard would set the current position against named competitors and show where endorsement is weakest.

A scoped fact-review register would still be worth building. It records the claims answer engines make about Insightly, who owns verification and what evidence would settle each one. With nothing flagged as critical, the register starts light and grows as new answers are captured. This gives the client a defensible record rather than a reactive scramble.

Step 2. Make the website consistent

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which recorded claim differences about Insightly should be verified before proposed page edits?

No results are available for this part of the analysis.

Both columns quote AI answers, not verified company facts. Resolve the entity, date and source before deciding whether a correction is warranted; different dates can explain an apparent conflict.

No disputed topics were supplied for this part of the analysis, so there is nothing to adjudicate between competing AI claims. The website consistency work therefore starts with verification rather than correction. Before any page brief is written, the team would confirm the entity, dates and sources behind the claims that do appear in answers.

Where a claim turns out to be accurate and well supported, the page can be strengthened around it. Where it is ambiguous or dated, the brief waits until primary sources settle the question. This keeps proposed edits tied to verified facts and avoids rewriting pages on the strength of an AI statement alone.

Step 3. Align the external narrative

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  • Which cited third-party pages are relevant to fact review for Insightly?

Cited page selected for review

Citation appearances in all captured answers

Answers mentioning the company

Conflicting claims linked to this page

https://techjockey.com/detail/insightly-crm

3

2

0

https://slashdot.org/software/comparison/Insightly-vs-monday-CRM/

2

2

0

https://till-freitag.com/en/blog/insightly-vs-monday-crm-en

2

2

0

https://crmnewspaper.com/compare/monday-crm-vs-insightly/

1

1

0

https://daidu.ai/products/insightly-ai

1

1

0

https://fahimai.com/es/insightly-vs-monday-crm

1

1

0

These pages were selected because they relate to the company in the captured answers. Their current contents still need checking before any correction request. A page linked to a conflicting claim is not necessarily its cause, and the same answer may contribute to more than one row.

The cited pages selected for review cluster around comparison content, particularly Insightly against monday.com, alongside directory and review listings. None of them carries a conflicting claim, so this is not a correction exercise. It is a question of whether those pages describe Insightly accurately and favorably enough to support endorsement.

The agency would review each page's current contents against primary sources before making any request. Where a page is accurate but thin, an evidence-backed request for added detail may be justified. Where it is already sound, the decision is to leave it alone. Publishers control their own pages, and a citation does not prove a page shaped the answer.

Step 4. Optimize priority company pages

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  • Which observed Insightly website pages should receive review briefs?

Company website page

Citation appearances in all captured answers

Benchmark answers citing the page

Recommending answers citing the page

https://insightly.com/blog/learning/crm-system-examples/

15

2

1

https://insightly.com/blog/which-crms-are-hipaa-compliant/

7

3

0

https://insightly.com/comparison-lp-monday/

5

5

1

https://insightly.com/

3

1

1

https://insightly.com/blog/best-crms-for-consultants/

3

2

0

https://insightly.com/blog/best-crm-for-marketing-agencies/

2

2

1

https://insightly.com/blog/crm-implementation-costs/

2

1

0

https://insightly.com/contact-management-crm/

2

0

0

The company's website was cited 54 times across 21 distinct page addresses; the table shows 8 pages selected for review. Zeros in the answer columns mean no matching answers were recorded. A cited page is not automatically a page that accompanied a recommendation.

The company's own pages are cited widely, which gives the client real material to work with. The comparison landing page and the CRM examples article are the most relevant starting points because they sit closest to the questions where Insightly is mentioned. Page briefs would build on approved facts and the questions buyers actually ask.

Each brief would specify the audience question the page answers, the verified facts it may use and the evidence behind any comparative claim. Pages cited without accompanying recommendations deserve particular attention, since they may be informing answers without persuading. Existing coverage would be checked before any new page is proposed.

Step 5. Publish around buyer questions

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which observed buyer questions support content briefs for Insightly?

Question observed in the research

Benchmark answers to this question

Company mentions

Company recommendations

What are the top 10 CRMs?

4

3

3

What is the difference between Monday and Insightly?

6

6

2

What is the best CRM for agencies?

3

3

2

What are the top 10 CRM tools?

5

4

1

What are the top 20 CRM platforms?

4

4

1

What CRM do consultants use?

3

3

1

What CRM is best for small business start-up?

2

1

1

What are the top 10 CRM software?

3

1

1

These are recorded answer observations, not search volume, verified demand, or proof of missing website content.

The recorded questions point to two clear themes: broad top-ten CRM lists and direct comparisons with monday.com. Insightly is mentioned often in the comparison question but recommended in only a fraction of those answers, which makes that topic the sharpest content opportunity. The agency content question shows a similar pattern of presence without strong endorsement.

Content briefs would address these questions directly, using approved facts and clear differentiation rather than generic list entries. Before commissioning anything, existing pages would be checked for coverage so the work extends what exists rather than duplicating it. These are observed answer patterns, not verified search demand.

Our 90-day action plan

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  • How should the agency sequence the proposed Insightly work and judge completion?

Period

Deliverable

Completion criterion

Days 1–30

Baseline scorecard, scoped fact-review register and page/source shortlist

Each record has an owner, evidence requirement and review status

Days 31–60

Approved page briefs and justified publisher requests

Separate confirmed edits, no-change decisions, requests and responses

Days 61–90

Buyer-content briefs and a fresh scorecard

Record work completed separately from measured answer outcomes and comparability limits

The first month establishes the baseline: a scorecard, a scoped fact-review register and a shortlist of pages and sources. Each record needs an owner, an evidence requirement and a review status, so the client can see what is confirmed and what is still open. This groundwork determines what the later work can responsibly claim.

The second month produces approved page briefs and justified publisher requests, with confirmed edits, no-change decisions, requests and responses recorded separately. The third month adds buyer-content briefs and a fresh scorecard. Completed work is reported apart from measured answer outcomes, and no visibility gain is promised, since answer samples vary and results are not guaranteed.

Methodology

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  • How are Insightly answer metrics and citation populations defined?

This report covers 2026-11. The exact dates when the original AI answers were collected have not been verified. The visibility rates use 272 answers that met the benchmark's inclusion rules. A company is recommended only when the answer both endorses it and uses positive wording. Top 3 and first-place counts are part of those recommendations, not extra recommendations.

An answer can mention or recommend several companies, so company counts cannot be added to find the number of distinct answers. The net sentiment score is positive minus negative mentions, divided by all company mentions; it describes answer wording, not customer satisfaction.

The wider citation analysis covers 800 captured answers and 5143 appearances of cited URLs. Citation appearances across all captured answers differ from the number of benchmark answers citing a page and the number that also recommend a company. The current contents of cited pages and disputed company claims still need independent verification.

Monthly sample coverage:

Reporting month

Answers included

AI services covered

Services

Nov 2026

272

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

July 2026 measured a different set of companies, so it is excluded from this comparison. August 2026 measured a different set of companies, so it is excluded from this comparison. September 2026 measured a different set of companies, so it is excluded from this comparison. October 2026 measured a different set of companies, so it is excluded from this comparison.

The answer samples differ between months. These comparisons show how the recorded results changed; they do not establish why they changed.

The answers were collected for a single reporting month, and the exact collection dates have not been verified. Recommendation requires both an endorsement and positive wording, and top-three and first-place counts sit inside the recommendation total rather than adding to it. An answer can name several companies, so company counts cannot be summed into distinct answers.

Citation appearances across all captured answers are a different measure from benchmark answers citing a page. Page contents and disputed claims still need independent verification. Monthly samples differ, so comparisons show what was recorded, not why it changed.

Our first three priorities

The first priority is to understand why Insightly is mentioned far more often than it is recommended. A visibility scorecard set against named competitors would show where endorsement is lost and which questions matter most. That gives the client a focused target rather than a broad awareness goal.

The second is the monday.com comparison content, where mentions are frequent but recommendations are not. A page brief grounded in approved facts and verified differentiation is the natural next step, after checking existing coverage. The third is a light fact-review register, starting from a clean position and ready to catch claims as new answers are captured. Together these turn a neutral presence into a platform for stronger endorsement.

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About The Author

Mark Huntley

Mark Huntley

Founder and CEO

Mark Huntley, J.D. is founder of CiteWorks Studio, a strategic advisory focused on visibility, authority, and recommendation presence in AI-shaped search environments. His work centers on embedding-level GEO, vector optimization, and cosine gap engineering — helping brands align their digital presence with the retrieval systems that increasingly shape discovery, interpretation, and choice.

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