Research
TendorAI’s published research measures whether AI assistants name UK regulated professional services firms — currently SRA-regulated solicitors, the vertical we researched first. Everything below is published in full, ungated, with the prompt panel and datasets available for audit. The shared method is set out on the methodology page.
Research reports
Numbered studies with a pre-registered panel, a published deviations log and downloadable data.
- TAI-R-2026-001
The UK AI Visibility Report for Solicitors — July 2026
US research says AI answers about lawyers are dominated by legal directories. We measured 12,279 citations across UK solicitor searches. The UK looks very different — and, for individual firms, harder to win.
Published 22 July 2026 - TAI-R-2026-002
Most UK Solicitors Are Never Recommended by AI. We Measured How Many.
We tracked 1,214 SRA-regulated firms across 17 UK cities. 1,003 of them — 83% — were never named once. A handful were named in every single answer. AI visibility for solicitors is a threshold, not a ranking.
Published 25 August 2026
Tested-firm studies
Smaller studies testing named firms in specific cities and professions.
We Asked AI to Recommend 216 UK Solicitors. It Named 16.
We tested how AI recommends UK solicitors across 216 firms in four cities. Only 7.4% were ever named. Here is the data, the method, and what separates the firms that get recommended from the ones that do not.
Published 20 May 2026Cardiff Solicitors AI Visibility 2026: 36 Firms Tested, Median Score 40/100
We tested 36 Cardiff law firms across ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity on 6 May 2026. Median AI visibility score: 40/100. Most have decent websites that AI does not reliably cite.
Published 7 May 2026
Deviation and methodology records
Every departure from a pre-registered plan is logged and published. Each research report also carries its own Method section, describing the panel, the engines, the repeat count and the collection window for that study.
Deviations log — UK AI Visibility Report for Solicitors, July 2026
Deviations log — Most UK Solicitors Are Never Recommended by AI, August 2026
The method shared by every study — panel design, repeat runs, the assistants used, citation capture, units, baselines and the limits of the design — is documented once on Methodology.
Published datasets
The panel is unchanged between waves, so these files serve both published reports.
What each file contains, the population it covers, the assistants and window it belongs to, and what it cannot be used to show are described on Data & Evidence.