Head to head · Legal practice management software · release 2026-09
Smokeball vs Clio Of 150 answers about legal practice management software, 126 named Clio and 68 named Smokeball. There was no question where Smokeball was named and Clio was not. All five engines named Smokeball at least once.
Clio is the most named checked vendor in legal practice management software in this release, so every other vendor in the category is compared with it.
One capture on 22 September 2026, ten fixed questions, three runs per engine. Not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.
The Smokeball record · The Clio record
Side by side All ten buyer questions, five engines, three runs. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality. Measure Smokeball Clio Named 68 of 150 (45.3%, Wilson 95% interval 37.6% to 53.3%) 126 of 150 (84.0%, Wilson 95% interval 77.3% to 89.0%) Own domain cited 15 of 150 (10.0%, Wilson 95% interval 6.2% to 15.8%) 53 of 150 (35.3%, Wilson 95% interval 28.1% to 43.3%)
By question Counts per question, over that question's valid answers.
By engine Each engine's count over its valid answers to all ten questions.
Smokeball and Clio, named per engine. Vendor ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Overviews Google AI Mode Smokeball 14 of 30 18 of 30 12 of 30 11 of 30 13 of 30 Clio 25 of 30 25 of 30 24 of 30 27 of 30 25 of 30
Measured head to head No question in this release asked the engines to choose between Smokeball and Clio; the counts above come from the ten buyer questions.
What the engines said about each Smokeball stands out for automatic activity tracking within its platform.
Claude, 22 September 2026 . Full answer text in the deposit . My default recommendation for a U.S. solo attorney is Clio, but I’d compare Clio Core with MyCase Pro before buying.
ChatGPT, 22 September 2026 . Full answer text in the deposit . Dash punctuation normalized. One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695 .
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Receipt Release 2026-09, published 23 September 2026 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695 Method v1.1 : ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engineCaptured 22 September 2026 Base 150 valid answers across ten questions; 0 excluded Licence CC BY 4.0 , attribution to BroadcastwellDisputes Dispute policy and log Any named company may request one no-cost re-run at index@broadcastwell.com; both results are published.
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Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.
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