The Magpire Index Report

How visible are accounting firms to AI search?

Buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for an accountant instead of Googling one. This report aggregates anonymised Magpire Audit data — one entry per audited firm — into the population-level read on who those engines actually recommend. No individual firm is identifiable; every published cell holds at least 5 firms.

Headline statistics

24
Average Magpire Index / 100
90%
Of firms invisible to AI engines
467
Audited firms in the dataset

An “invisible” firm scored zero on the AI-presence category — it was not cited by a single AI engine on any tested buyer query (“best accountant in [city]”, “accountant for [specialism]”, and the question-form variants buyers actually type). Those queries are being answered every day; the cited minority takes the enquiry.

By country

CountryAvg IndexInvisibleFirms
the UK2491%465

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Methodology: one entry per audited firm website (newest audit wins), scored by the Magpire audit engine across five weighted categories — AI presence, content, technical, visibility signals, authority. Cells under 5 firms are suppressed. City and specialism breakdowns live on the statistics index.

Sam Hoye, founder of Magpire
Sam Hoye ACMA CGMA
ACMA · CGMA · Founder, Social Commerce Accountants · 50+ accounting firm clients