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Original data · measured 5 October 2026 · re-measured monthly

Which residential chartered surveyors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire do AI assistants actually recommend?

We put the 8 questions a person in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire asks before choosing residential chartered surveyor — cost, specialism, who to use, how to check them — to Claude, 3 times each, 24 answers in all, and recorded every firm the answers named. 9 firms in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire were checked against those answers. 4 of them were named at least once. The rest were not recommended in a single answer.

The league table

#FirmNamed inOn questionsYour firm?
1Allcott Associates6 of 24 answers3 of 8Your firm? Get its report
2Dunford Penrose Surveyors5 of 24 answers3 of 8Your firm? Get its report
3Nuven Surveyors5 of 24 answers2 of 8Your firm? Get its report
4Harding Chartered Surveyors2 of 24 answers1 of 8Your firm? Get its report
5Smith Heritage Surveyors0 of 24 answers0 of 8Your firm? Get its report
6Sterlingworth Surveyors Ltd0 of 24 answers0 of 8Your firm? Get its report
7Allied Surveyors & Valuers Ltd0 of 24 answers0 of 8Your firm? Get its report
8Taylor Williams Daley0 of 24 answers0 of 8Your firm? Get its report
9N J Waple Associates0 of 24 answers0 of 8Your firm? Get its report

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. What is the difference between a HomeBuyer Report (Level 2) and a full Building Survey (Level 3) when buying a house in Reading?
  2. I'm buying a 1930s semi near Basingstoke. Do I need a full building survey or is a Level 2 report enough?
  3. Which RICS surveyors in Reading carry out Level 3 building surveys on older houses?
  4. Which chartered surveyors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire do HomeBuyer reports for buyers of ordinary houses and flats?
  5. How do I find an independent RICS chartered surveyor near Basingstoke who will give me a straight answer on a house I want to buy?
  6. Which independent surveyors in Haslemere give a full building survey to home buyers?
  7. Which RICS regulated surveyors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire do pre-purchase surveys on period and Victorian houses?
  8. Which independent chartered surveyors near Reading do residential building surveys rather than commercial work?

How this was measured

  • Date: 5 October 2026. This is one day, not a trend; the index is re-measured monthly.
  • Sample: 8 questions × 1 assistant × 3 runs = 24 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.

Is your firm on this list?

Every firm above has a private report: which answers named it, which rivals were named instead, whether its website can be read by the assistants, and the three things that would change the result. We work with one residential chartered surveyor in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire, and this index is re-measured every month, so the change is visible here.

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Residential chartered surveyors in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire: AI Visibility Index — 5 October 2026 — Aether