Waseit study · UK · collected 2026-07-31

Which recruitment agencies do AI assistants recommend in Sheffield?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 6 real buying questions about recruitment agencies in Sheffield - the way customers actually ask. Every answer named specific businesses: 30 names came back for this trade in this city.

3 names are cited by more than one assistant, out of 30 found. And the leader takes only 13% of citations: the field is open, nobody has taken it.

The names the assistants cite most

1.Elevation Recruitment Groupcited 3 times · by openai, gemini
2.Brewster Partnerscited 3 times · by openai, gemini
3.Hays Recruitmentcited 3 times · by openai, gemini
4.The Works Recruitmentcited 2 times · by openai
5.Cordant Peoplecited 2 times · by openai
6.Andy File Associatescited 2 times · by perplexity
7.Sue Ross Recruitmentcited 2 times · by perplexity
8.A for Appointmentscited 2 times · by perplexity

Counts are citations across our sampled answers for this trade and city, collected 2026-07-31 via the assistants' APIs. Answers vary between runs - across the whole study, assistants agreed with each other on only 3% of names. A snapshot, honestly labelled, not a permanent ranking.

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Recruitment agencies in other cities

Other trades in Sheffield

Full dataset and method: the 2026 UK study (1464 answers, 244 trade×city cells) · our methodology