Independent Strategic Intelligence

What does AI say
about your organisation?

When your prospects consult ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity before calling you —
do you know what they're told?

84% of companies haven't measured their AI visibility
60% of AI citations come from outside Google's top 20
$750Bn in revenue flowing through AI search by 2028

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How visible is your organisation
to AI systems?

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⚠ Simulation only — not a real AI query. Results are illustrative sector averages.
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The Core Issue

AI systems have formed
an opinion about you

Whether you know it or not, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok and Meta AI are already answering questions about your organisation. That answer may be accurate, partial, absent — or actively misleading.

Presence

Are you cited when prospects ask about your sector, services or competitors?

Accuracy

Is the information AI provides about you factually correct and current?

Positioning

Are you cited before or after your direct competitors in recommendations?

Sentiment

Is the tone associated with your organisation positive, neutral, or damaging?

The Stakes

SEO rank alone ≠
AI visibility

Being number one on Google no longer guarantees being cited in AI responses. Yet strong SEO fundamentals — site speed, structured content, authority signals — directly feed the data AI models rely on. You need both.

LLMs don't return a list of links — they synthesise a direct answer. The decision to contact you happens after the AI has already formed a judgement.

Only 16% of brands systematically track their AI visibility. The window to build an advantage is now.

March 2026 — ChatGPT now enables native purchases within conversations. The AI no longer just recommends — it sells. Google, Microsoft and Meta are following. AI visibility is now a revenue channel.

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Traditional SEO
Position #1 on Google
AI Perception
Cited in only 28% of AI responses
Illustrative — based on McKinsey research, Oct 2025

Coverage

Seven platforms.
One diagnostic.

Each AI platform has different sources, different citation logics, different user profiles. There is only 25% overlap between ChatGPT and Perplexity recommendations for identical queries.

ChatGPT900M weekly users
ClaudeAnthropic — enterprise reasoning
GeminiIntegrated into Google Search
Perplexity780M monthly queries
CopilotMicrosoft 365 — B2B native
GrokReal-time X/Twitter access
Meta AIWhatsApp · Instagram · Facebook

Who We Serve

Trusted by decision-makers
across regulated industries

Law Firms
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Wealth Management
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Healthcare
🏢
Real Estate
📊
Consulting
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Luxury B2B
7 AI Platforms Tested
14 Strategic Scenarios
4 Analysis Angles
25–30 Pages per Report

Results

Measurable impact
from the first audit

European Law Firm — 120+ lawyers
18/100 Before
67/100 After 4 months

Invisible on Gemini and Perplexity. After implementing our structured data and content recommendations, cited as a reference in corporate law across 5 of 6 platforms.

Private Healthcare Group — 3 clinics
2/6 Platforms citing
6/6 All platforms

Referenced only on ChatGPT and Copilot. Our audit revealed critical gaps in medical authority signals. Now recommended across all 7 AI platforms for specialist consultations.

Client identities anonymised. Results based on AI Perception Score™ methodology.

Revenue Intelligence

Your proposals go out late. Your follow-ups don't go out at all.
Your invoices sleep.

Every week, your commercial team loses deals — not because your offer is wrong, but because the proposal arrived too late, the follow-up never happened, or the invoice was sent to a client who was never going to pay. We deploy AI agents that draft personalised proposals in 24 hours, run calibrated follow-up sequences, and score prospect solvency before you commit a single hour on the wrong client.

01
Convince

AI-drafted proposals tailored to each prospect. Delivered in 24h, ready to send. Your commercial DNA injected into every document.

02
Close

Structured follow-up sequences — persistent, calibrated, never forgotten. The deals your team lets slip now get closed.

03
Collect

Payment reminders from D+30 to D+75. Firm tone, professional, automated. Upstream solvency scoring to avoid bad debt entirely.

One additional deal per quarter pays for the entire service — ten times over.

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Digital Foundations

Your website was built for Google.
The world has changed.

No IT team? No digital partner? We create or rebuild your web presence — optimised for the AI era. Modern, fast, AI-ready.

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Our Services

Three levels of engagement.
One standard of quality.

From the express Pre-Report to the Full AI Perception Audit™ and continuous Quarterly Monitoring — every diagnostic is independent, confidential, and built for executives.

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Why Independent?

No conflict of interest.
Ever.

SEO / GEO Agencies

Sell execution: content, technical optimisation, campaigns. They fix problems — but their commercial interest favours ongoing outsourcing from you.

SaaS Tracking Tools

Provide automated data: mentions, sentiment, share of voice. Require internal expertise to interpret and act.

Ashford & Sterling

Independent strategic diagnostic interpreted for executives. We identify the solutions your internal IT team or external provider should implement — and we work closely with them to ensure execution.

Free Research

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AI Perception 2026

40+ sourced statistics. 13 structured chapters. The complete strategic guide for executives navigating the AI discovery shift.