The Starr ConspiracyAI-Era Leaderboard
Cybersecurity, Compliance, and IT Infrastructure

Cybersecurity, Compliance, and IT Infrastructure

Who's winning in the AI Era? Using millions of data points, we've analyzed 67 vendors across two dimensions: AI Product Leadership and AI GTM Leadership.

67

Vendors Tracked

7,972

AI Citations

4.5

Vertical AI Readiness

Struggling

Who's Winning

The leaders across GTM, product, and overall AI-Era performance

GTM Leader

teamviewer

AI GTM Leader
GTM Score93.2
Citation Share18.4%
Rank#1
Engine BalanceDual-engine

Product Leader

SentinelOne

AI-Era Leader
Product Score99.9
AI TierAI-Native
AI DepthPlatform-level AI
AI Features10 detected

AI-Era Leader

Pagerduty

AI GTM Leader
Overall Score89.5
GTM Score92.2
Product Score86.8
Last AI Ship2026-03-12

AI-Era Position Matrix

67 vendors plotted by AI GTM Leadership and AI Product Leadership.

AI-Era LeadersAI Product LeadersAI GTM LeadersCatching UpAI GTM Leadership →AI Product Leadership →teamviewerPagerdutyconnectwiseCloudflareVMwareDatadogIncident.ioSentinelOneServiceNowNutanix

GTM Leaderboard

Who's winning the go-to-market game in the AI Era

#VendorGTM ScoreCitation ShareCoveragePerplexityAI Overviews
1teamviewer93.218.4%3.1%88%12%
2Pagerduty92.216.6%3.0%85%15%
3connectwise86.310.3%2.4%91%9%
4Cloudflare84.25.4%1.1%82%18%
5VMware82.52.6%0.8%83%17%
6Datadog79.33.3%0.8%97%3%
7Incident.io78.51.7%0.9%98%2%
8Xurrent76.71.6%1.0%67%33%
9LogMeIn75.72.4%0.6%86%14%
10NinjaOne75.61.7%0.9%86%14%

AEO Leaderboard

Pure citation performance across AI answer engines

#VendorCitation ShareCoveragePerplexityAI OverviewsAEO Score
1teamviewer18.4%3.1%88%12%94.9
2Pagerduty16.6%3.0%85%15%93.8
3connectwise10.3%2.4%91%9%90.8
4Cloudflare5.4%1.1%82%18%88.4
5Datadog3.3%0.8%97%3%83.2
6VMware2.6%0.8%83%17%83.1
7LogMeIn2.4%0.6%86%14%80.0
8Nutanix2.1%0.5%89%11%77.9
9ServiceNow1.9%0.6%92%8%77.5
10Kaseya1.8%0.4%95%5%73.7

Product Leaderboard

AI product capabilities — who's building real AI vs. marketing it

#VendorProduct ScoreAI TierDepthFeaturesLast ShipConfidence
1SentinelOne99.9NativePlatform102026-04high
2Nutanix95.0NativePlatform82026-03-16high
3BigPanda92.9NativePlatform82026-02high
4CrowdStrike91.4AugmentedPlatform132026-03-23high
5DigitalOcean91.0AugmentedPlatform112026-03-16high
6Incident.io90.9NativePlatform72026-02high
7Proofpoint90.3AugmentedPlatform102026-03high
8Petronella Tech90.3AugmentedPlatform122026-03high
9Splunk87.6AugmentedPlatform122026-01high
10Sprinto87.3AugmentedPlatform82026-03-21high

Citation Share Universe

How AI answer engines distribute citations across this vertical

Vendor vs. Vendor

How citation share is distributed among tracked vendors

teamviewer18.4%Pagerduty16.6%connectwise10.3%Cloudflare5.4%Datadog3.3%

AI Product Intelligence

How each vendor stacks up on real AI capabilities vs. marketing claims

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Messaging vs. Reality

Are vendors walking the talk? Product reality vs. marketing claims.

29 Aligned36 Overstating2 Underselling
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Expera IT
Overstating
SuperOps
Overstating
Faddom
Overstating
xMatters
Overstating
NinjaOne
Overstating
AlertOps
Overstating
Xurrent
Overstating
Veeam
Overstating
connectwise
Overstating
DeskDay
Overstating
Product ScoreMarketing MessagingGap (line color = severity)