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AI visibility audit

Enter your domain. The audit works out what you sell, who you compete with, and what your buyers ask. Then it puts those questions to five engines and shows you every answer.

Reads only what your site already publishes. No logins, no analytics access, nothing about your customers.

ChatGPT · August 2026

What are the best accountancy firms in the UK for corporate finance advisory?

Several top accountancy firms in the UK are known for their expertise in corporate finance advisory. These firms provide comprehensive services including M&A advisory, debt advisory, strategic advice, and capital markets support. Here are some leading firms in this field:

1. Grant Thornton: This firm is renowned for its holistic approach to corporate finance, emphasizing long-term relationships with clients. Grant Thornton has extensive expertise across national and international sectors, helping both private equity and trade partners with M&A strategies and execution. It has been ranked the #1 UK Financial Advisor by Experian several times.

2. Azets: With a strong emphasis on strategic corporate finance advisory and M&A, Azets offers partner-led advice with deep sector knowledge. Their services cover buying, selling, raising finance, and guiding clients through the deal process with clarity and confidence.

3. FRP Advisory: FRP provides tailored corporate finance ...

Excerpt. The full answer runs 2,277 characters and continues to two further firms.

Sources the answer cited

3 firms named, 5 sources cited, and the firm that commissioned this audit is not among them. This is one answer of 30. Nothing about it reaches their analytics, because the buyer never arrived at their site.

What arrives

01

The prompts

The questions your buyers actually put to the engines, not questions written to flatter the result.

02

The answers

What each engine said, in full, so you read the reasoning, not a score.

03

Who was named

The competitors the engines reach for on your questions, and how often.

04

Why it was not you

The specific gate that failed, and the change that opens it.

A real run: A UK accountancy practice, top 30 by size, August 2026
  • ChatGPT0 of 6
  • Claude0 of 6
  • Gemini0 of 6
  • Google AI Overviews1 of 6
  • Perplexity1 of 6
  • All engines2 of 30

Grant Thornton was named in 10 of 30. Your buyers ask AI who to use. If you are not named, nothing tells you.

Who took the answers you wanted

Every run lists the firms the engines reached for on your buyers' questions, and how many answers each one took. Below is a real one, for a UK accountancy practice. Yours is built against your own competitor list. So you see which of the rivals you already name are getting recommended in your place.

Comparison
  • This firm2 of 30
  • Grant Thornton10 of 30
  • RSM UK5 of 30
  • BDO4 of 30

Answers naming each firm, out of 30.

Being named and being cited are not the same thing

The audit measures them separately because they fail for different reasons and need opposite fixes. One of these four positions looks like success on a monitoring dashboard and is the weakest of them.

Cited as a source

Not cited

Named in the answer

Named and cited

Strongest
NamedCited

The engine recommends you and links your page as the source. The answer sends people to you and the credit is attributable.

What to do

Protect it. Track the prompts it holds on and watch for displacement.

Named, not cited

Weakest
NamedNot cited

The engine knows the brand from training and never reads the site. Looks like success on a monitoring dashboard and is the weakest of the four: every answer is written from what the model already believes.

What to do

Give it a reason to fetch you. Fresh, specific, quotable pages the model cannot answer from memory.

Not named

Cited, not named

Leaking
Not namedCited

Your page was used to build the answer, but the recommendation went to someone else. You did the work and a competitor got the introduction.

What to do

Make the page state who it is for and what you do, not just the facts a model can lift.

Neither

Absent
Not namedNot cited

Invisible on this question. Not a judgement on the brand, just an absence, and the cause could be any of the four gates.

What to do

Find which gate failed before writing anything.

Questions

What does it actually do?

It profiles the business from its own website, finds the competitors the engines actually name, generates the questions your buyers ask, then puts those questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews and records who was mentioned and who was cited.

How long does it take?

A minute or two. Each engine runs a live web search per answer, which is the slow part and also the reason the results reflect what a real buyer would see today.

Do I need to give you access to anything?

No. It reads what your site publishes publicly and what the engines say. No analytics access, no logins, no customer data.

Is it really free?

Yes. It costs us real money per run, so it is not unlimited, but there is no charge and no card. The point is that both of us can see the same data before deciding whether there is anything worth doing.

See where you stand.

The same check the accountancy firm got, on your domain. About a minute. Costs nothing.