AI Shortlist Index · September 2026 · preview edition · Prompt Set v1.0
Best Multifamily Access Control Systems According to AI
Keyless entry, smart locks, video intercoms, gate and amenity-door access, and the credential platform that ties them to move-ins, move-outs, vendors, and self-guided tours across an apartment community.
Editorial read
Twenty-five prompts, one run each, from ChatGPT with web search. ButterflyMX led at 83%, with Salto at 76% and Brivo at 75%, and every one of the 19 vendors in the database was named at least once — the most evenly spread category in the edition. Vendor sites took 79% of the citations among the top twenty domains, and butterflymx.com alone drew 43. One run per prompt; read it as a first reading.
Ranking
| # | Vendor | Mention rate | Engines | Consistency | Move | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ButterflyMX | 83% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 2 | Salto | 76% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 3 | Brivo | 75% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 4 | SmartRent | 65% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 5 | DOOR | 43% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 6 | dormakaba | 40% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 7 | Zentra | 36% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 8 | RemoteLock | 36% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 9 | Swiftlane | 33% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 10 | Avigilon Alta | 28% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 11 | PointCentral | 24% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 12 | Gatewise | 17% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 13 | Rently Smart Home | 12% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 14 | Homebase | 8% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 15 | Quext | 8% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 16 | iApartments | 4% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 17 | Condo Control | 4% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 18 | BuildingLink | 4% | 1/1 | – | – | |
| 19 | EliseAI | 4% | 1/1 | – | – |
Every vendor in the category database is listed, named or not. A vendor that is absent from every answer is still a row, because absence is the finding. Add or correct a vendor.
Engines
| Engine | Status | Model | Runs | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | ran | – | 25 | |
| Perplexity | missing | sonar | 0 | no runs recorded |
| Gemini | missing | gemini-3.8-flash | 0 | no runs recorded |
| Google AI Overviews | missing | – | 0 | no runs recorded |
Source map, top 5
| # | Domain | Type | Citations | Engines | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | butterflymx.com | vendor site | 43 | ChatGPT | ButterflyMX, RemoteLock |
| 2 | brivo.com | vendor site | 20 | ChatGPT | Brivo |
| 3 | smartrent.com | vendor site | 20 | ChatGPT | SmartRent |
| 4 | remotelock.com | vendor site | 14 | ChatGPT | RemoteLock |
| 5 | door.com | vendor site | 11 | ChatGPT | ButterflyMX, DOOR |
See all twenty domains and URLs in the access control source map.
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