Which managed IT support companies in Hampshire and west Surrey do AI assistants actually recommend?

We put the 10 questions a person in Hampshire and west Surrey asks before choosing managed IT support companie — cost, specialism, who to use, how to check them — to Claude, 3 times each, 30 answers in all, and recorded every firm the answers named. 31 firms in Hampshire and west Surrey were checked against those answers. 8 of them were named at least once. The rest were not recommended in a single answer.

The league table

Firms are ranked by the number of answers that named them, then by how many different questions. The assistants do not give identical answers twice, so a difference of one or two mentions is noise; being named on questions a rival is absent from is not.

The questions we asked

1. Which managed IT support companies in Farnborough look after small businesses?
2. Which managed IT support companies in Hampshire and west Surrey provide a helpdesk and monitoring for a fixed monthly fee?
3. Which IT companies in Farnborough manage IT for offices of 20 to 100 staff?
4. Our office near Woking keeps losing the network and our IT person has left. Who can take over our IT support?
5. Which IT companies in Winchester help with Microsoft 365 and cloud migration?
6. How do I choose an IT support provider in Farnborough that responds quickly to problems?
7. Which IT support firms in Hampshire and west Surrey offer 24/7 monitoring and a helpdesk?
8. Which IT support providers in Winchester look after email, backups and cyber security for small businesses?
9. Which IT companies in Hampshire and west Surrey offer outsourced IT support instead of hiring an in-house IT team?
10. Which managed service providers in Hampshire and west Surrey support Microsoft 365, servers and cyber security for businesses?

How this was measured

• Date: 5 October 2026. This is one day, not a trend; the index is re-measured monthly.
• Sample: 10 questions × 1 assistant × 3 runs = 30 answers. 31 firms checked.
• Assistants used: Claude (Anthropic’s Sonnet model, through its API, with web search). Answers from these programming interfaces can differ from what the consumer apps show.
• Counting: a firm is counted when its name appears in an answer. Names are picked out of the answer text automatically, then matched to the firm list.
• Limits: the assistants vary between runs, so small gaps are noise. Firms that were not named may still be recommended by an assistant or a question we did not ask. National chains are left off the list.