Top 20 coworking spaces in phoenix by AI search visibility (2026)
Coworking operators serving Phoenix founders, remote teams, and local businesses with flexible offices, shared workspace, and meeting room access across the metro. Ranked by a composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
Refreshed Jun 07, 2026At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
Spaces dominates the Phoenix coworking AI visibility landscape with a perfect 100% visibility score — nearly 2.7x the next closest competitors (Mod at 62.5%, and a cluster of brands at 37.5%) and 4.9x the category average of 20.6%. This gap is substantial: every other brand in the top 10 appears in fewer than two-thirds of AI responses where Spaces appears in all of them. The composite score gap between Spaces (73.8) and rank-2 Regus (52.5) further confirms that Spaces has materially separated itself at the top of the AI-generated narrative for this category.
Visibility and citation diverge sharply across the top brands, revealing a named-vs-trusted split. Spaces leads on visibility (100%) but holds a citation rate of just 12.5%, while Regus reverses this pattern entirely — 37.5% visibility but 87.5% citation rate, the highest in the category. Industrious mirrors this with 37.5% visibility and 75% citations. Mod, ranked 4th on composite score with 62.5% visibility, carries a 0% citation rate, meaning the AI mentions it but never links to it as a source. This split suggests the AI treats some brands as topics and others as authoritative references.
Google AI Mode is the dominant — and apparently sole — engine surfacing these brands, with every top-10 brand listing it as their top engine. Among cited sources, third-party coworking aggregators feature prominently alongside brand domains: coworkingcafe.com, commercialcafe.com, and deskpass.com all appear in the top cited sources list alongside regus.com, wework.com, and blog.industriousoffice.com. This indicates the AI is anchoring its Phoenix coworking responses on a combination of brand-owned content and coworking-specific directory and aggregator sites rather than general business publications.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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Spaces 0% → 100% · rank #0 → #1+100pp
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Mod 0% → 62% · rank #0 → #4+62pp
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Regus 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #2+38pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
spacesworks.com
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100% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Spaces achieves 100% visibility — 4.9x the 20.6% category average — but its 12.5% citation rate is the lowest among all ranked brands with nonzero citations, signaling high mention frequency but low source authority in AI responses. |
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| 2 |
regus.com
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38% | 88% | Google AI Mode |
Regus holds the category's highest citation rate at 87.5% despite only 37.5% visibility, making it the most-trusted source referenced by Google AI Mode even when it is not the most-mentioned brand. |
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| 3 |
industriousoffice.com
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38% | 75% | Google AI Mode |
Industrious matches Regus on visibility at 37.5% and posts the second-highest citation rate at 75%, with blog.industriousoffice.com appearing directly in the top cited sources list, suggesting its owned content is driving AI trust. |
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| 4 |
modphx.com
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62% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Mod ranks 4th with 62.5% visibility — second only to Spaces — yet records a 0% citation rate, making it the highest-visibility zero-citation brand in the category and a clear case of name recognition without source authority. |
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| 5 |
wework.com
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38% | 38% | Google AI Mode |
WeWork is the only top-5 brand where visibility and citation are exactly equal at 37.5%, and its domain appears directly in the top cited sources list, indicating a balanced but mid-tier AI presence in this market. |
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| 6 |
cohoots.com
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38% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
workuity.com
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38% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
kiln.com
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38% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
thedepartmentphx.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
galvanize.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
officeevolution.com
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
expansive.com
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
venturex.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
serendipitylabs.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
pipelineworkspaces.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
intelligentoffice.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
thecommondesk.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
workperch.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
novelcoworking.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
deskhub.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on coworking spaces in phoenix, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer.
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence — different from being named.
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps.
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically.
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Frequently asked about coworking spaces in phoenix AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in the Phoenix coworking space category?
Spaces leads with 100% visibility and a composite score of 73.8, appearing in every Google AI Mode response tracked — nearly three times more frequently than the next cluster of brands at 37.5% visibility.
Which Phoenix coworking brand is cited most as a trusted source by Google AI Mode?
Regus is cited in 87.5% of responses where it appears, the highest citation rate in the category, followed by Industrious at 75% — both far above the category average citation rate of 16.2%.
What sources does Google AI Mode anchor on when answering Phoenix coworking queries?
The AI draws from a mix of brand domains (regus.com, wework.com, blog.industriousoffice.com) and third-party coworking aggregators including coworkingcafe.com, commercialcafe.com, and deskpass.com, as well as google.com itself.
Are there brands with high visibility but low citation rates in this category?
Yes — both Spaces (100% visibility, 12.5% citation) and Mod (62.5% visibility, 0% citation) are frequently named in AI responses but rarely used as cited sources, indicating the AI surfaces them as topics rather than authoritative references.
How does the average brand perform on AI visibility in Phoenix coworking?
The category average visibility is 20.6% and the average citation rate is 16.2%, meaning most of the 20 tracked brands appear in fewer than one in five AI responses and are cited even less frequently.
Which brands are new entrants to AI visibility in this category based on recent movement?
Spaces, Mod, and Regus are all flagged as the biggest visibility risers, each moving from 0% to their current visibility scores (100%, 62.5%, and 37.5% respectively) in the most recent audit period.