Which professional services recruitment agencies in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire do AI assistants actually recommend?

We put the 10 questions a person in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire asks before choosing professional services recruitment agencie — 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. 9 firms in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire were checked against those answers. 3 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 recruitment agencies in Winchester place finance, legal and office professionals?
2. Which recruitment agencies in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire place permanent staff for small and mid-sized employers?
3. Which recruiters in Winchester specialise in finance and accountancy hires?
4. We need to hire a finance manager near Bracknell quickly. Which recruiter has good candidates?
5. Which recruitment consultancies in Farnham cover office, admin and HR recruitment?
6. Which recruitment agencies near Bracknell offer a replacement guarantee on permanent placements?
7. Which recruiters in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire supply interim and contract professionals?
8. We're growing and need five engineers across Bracknell and Farnham. Who can run a larger hiring project?
9. Which professional recruitment firms in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire run executive and senior hiring searches?
10. Which independent recruitment agencies in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire are recommended by local employers?

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. 9 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.