Be the recruitment firm AI recommends
When a hiring manager asks ChatGPT for the best construction recruiter in Manchester, one firm gets named. Right now it isn't yours. We fix that.
ChatGPTYour next client is asking an AI which agency to use and you never see the question
By the time an employer picks up the phone, the shortlist is already written. The research that built it happened weeks earlier, without you.
Referrals still open doors, and they always will. What a referral cannot reach is the research that happens underneath it, when someone types “we need a QS in Salford, who should we call” and acts on the two or three firms that come back.
No impressions, no click data, nothing in your analytics, and a pipeline that quietly stops filling. If you are tired of agencies reporting rankings and traffic while your buyers have stopped clicking links at all, this is the fix.
The firms getting named aren't always the biggest. They're the ones an AI can read, verify and confidently recommend.
| Buyer prompt | Engine | Who gets named | Your firm |
|---|---|---|---|
| best recruitment agency for construction in Manchester | ChatGPT | 3 national generalists | Not cited |
| who places quantity surveyors in the North West | Perplexity | 2 regional firms | Not cited |
| top site manager recruiters UK | Gemini | 1 job board, 2 agencies | Not cited |
| civil engineering recruitment agency Leeds | ChatGPT | 2 national generalists | Not cited |
Want to see this run on your prompts instead of ours? We will do it live on the call.
Book a callThe Territory Engine. Four moves, run every month until you're the answer.
We map the questions your buyers actually type, by sector, by discipline and by city, then check what every major AI engine answers today. You see exactly who gets named instead of you.
Thirty minutes to see what the Territory Engine would work on first for your firm.
Book a callWe've done this outside recruitment and we'll show you the work
Straight answer: recruitment is a new vertical for us. The method isn't. Here is what it did for a UK tax platform competing against far larger, far older brands.
From invisible in AI answers to the name ChatGPT gives when someone asks for tax help.
Read the full blueprint“We have been working with Ben and DomiSearch for nearly 3 years. A true expert in his space. Taxd has grown a phenomenal customer base thanks to our fantastic search acquisition strategy.”
Eamon ShahirCo-Founder, Taxd“We brought Ben in to support not just with Google Ads, but also landing pages, copy, and AEO. This helped boost conversions at every stage of the funnel. What we value most is his ability to provide clear insights, suggest improvements, and execute independently.”
Arjun KumarCo-Founder, Taxd“Ben from DomiSearch has made my life easy. Anything to do with Google Ads, this guy knows. No over complication, not focusing on 'getting you to buy'. The guy tells you what works, makes it work and over delivers.”
Angellos KoulliCEO, AlphaveataWe will show you the same numbers for your firm, live, on a 30 minute call.
Book a callTwo of us. Both on every account.
DomiSearch is small and deliberately so. You get both of us on the work: the search side that gets you named inside AI answers, and the recruitment side that knows which conversations are worth winning. Not an account manager relaying it back a week late.
Ben Martland
Founder
Three years scaling a service business, with £3M+ of managed search spend behind him. Ben builds the visibility engine: the technical foundations, the content that earns citations, and the monthly number that either moved or it did not.
Jake Duffy
Director
Five years inside UK recruitment before DomiSearch. Jake knows the BD grind: the cold calls, the PSLs you cannot crack, the clients who cannot tell you from four other agencies. He maps your disciplines, your patch and your buyers.
One of us has spent £3M+ making brands findable. One of us has sat in your seat. Most agencies bring neither.
One programme. One price. Your patch held exclusively.
The programme pays for itself if it wins you a single extra client a quarter. Everything after that is margin.
Recruitment firms already pay up to £25 a click fighting over these buyers on Google. AI answers reach the same buyers, and there is no auction.
AI Search for Recruitment
3 month initial term, then rolling monthly
One firm per sub-sector, per region.
Your first month
- Full prompt audit, visibility scorecard and 90 day roadmap
- Baseline capture and competitor citation benchmark
- Technical foundations: schema, llms.txt and an AI-readable site structure
- Entity and directory pass across the sources AI actually reads
Every month after
- 10 content pieces built to be cited (6 new, 4 refreshed)
- 4 third-party citation actions: directory, listicle and press placements pitched on your behalf
- Review engine to turn client wins into visible proof
- Visibility tracked across 6 engines, monthly report and call, quarterly re-audit
Covers one exclusive territory (your sub-sector and region). Additional territories agreed on the call.
What's inside the engineFull technical breakdown
Cited on your priority prompts by month four, or we work free until you are.
We agree the priority prompts with you in writing before we start, so there is no argument later about what counted.
The programme is pure AI search, one firm per sub-sector per region, on a 3 month initial term and rolling monthly after that. AI visibility compounds, so we do not take clients for a single month. Not ready to commit? We will run the visibility audit free on a call so you can see where you stand first.
Questions recruitment owners ask
SEO gets you a blue link on a results page. AEO, or Answer Engine Optimisation, gets your firm named inside the answer itself, when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity which recruitment agency to use. The buyer never sees a list of ten options; they see one recommendation. AEO is the work of becoming that recommendation.
The hard numbers are about B2B buying generally, and the people hiring you are B2B buyers. Forrester surveyed 18,000 of them and found 94% used AI somewhere in their most recent purchase. More than half now begin their research with an AI chatbot rather than Google, and around a third have bought from a vendor they had never heard of because AI put it in front of them. Rather than quote industry averages at you, we would rather run your own prompts on a call and show you what the engines say about your firm today.
Yes, because PSLs leak. Roughly 63% of hiring managers regularly engage agencies outside their preferred supplier list, usually for urgent or niche roles, and that is exactly the moment they go looking. Referred buyers check you out before they call, too. AI answers are part of that silent research whether the introduction came from a person or not.
The foundations land in the first month. Movement on real buyer prompts typically starts showing between month two and month four, depending on how competitive your sub-sector is and how much authority your site already carries. It is slower than paid and faster than traditional SEO. That is why the programme runs a three month initial term and then rolls monthly: AI visibility compounds, and a single month proves nothing either way.
Specialist recruitment beats generalist recruitment in AI answers, consistently. Construction, engineering, M&E, healthcare, legal, tech. Anywhere a buyer describes a discipline and a location, a specialist firm with clear entity data can outrank a national generalist. If you place across everything with no clear focus, that is a positioning problem before it is an AEO problem, and we will say so.
No. Competing prompts are a zero-sum fight, so we will not take two firms chasing the same sub-sector in the same region. One firm per sub-sector, per region. A firm holding commercial build in the North West does not block a firm working civils there, but it does block another commercial build firm. First in holds the slot.
Monthly tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI on your specific prompts, showing whether you were mentioned, where you ranked in the answer, and which sources the model cited. It is the Territory Engine dashboard, and you see the same screen we do.
Still got a question? Ask it on the call.
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Thirty minutes. We run your real buyer prompts live on the call, no deck, and you see exactly where you stand today.
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