Rothenhall Partners
AI Visibility Brief · September 2026

The finding, in one line

A sharp positioning that gives AI almost nothing to read.

The schema is in place and the idea is clear, but the homepage is thin and the name is a common word. Give the machines real, quotable copy and a distinct identity, and the picture changes quickly.

58 out of 100
AI Visibility Score
InvisibleFaintPresentRecommended

The proof

We asked the assistants the way your buyers do.

These are the questions a brand or marketing lead would actually type when looking for an agency like Ringers. We then checked the directory lists AI assistants draw on to answer them, and recorded who was named.

Nine buyer questions
01Best advertising agency in Dublin for a national brand campaign.
02Top independent creative agencies in Ireland.
03Which Irish agency should we hire for a brand relaunch.
04Best full-service marketing and advertising agency in Dublin.
05Award-winning creative agencies in Ireland.
06An Irish agency for an integrated advertising and social campaign.
07Who does the sharpest brand and advertising creative in Ireland.
08Recommend a creative agency in Dublin for a mid-sized company.
09Best agencies in Ireland for a big consumer campaign.
0/6
of the six Dublin agency lists AI cites that named Ringers
Brand New Creative
Kooba
Publicis Dublin
Arekibo
CI Studio
Squaredot
10+ others
Ringers
Not named

Names that recur across the directory lists AI cites for Dublin agencies, from top pick to passing mention. Ringers did not appear in that set.

Readability
Thin
Can AI crawlers reach it?
Yes. The site returns 200 to GPTBot and PerplexityBot; nothing is blocked at the edge.
Is there text to read?
Barely About 1,210 characters. The abstract “Proper Problems” line leaves a model little concrete to quote.
The shortlist
0 / 6
Named in the Dublin lists?
No The directory lists assistants cite name other agencies, not you.
Where that leaves you
Off the shortlist. The models build their answer from those lists, so you are not in the set they choose from.

On the method, plainly. Reachability, schema, on-page text, titles and headings are measured directly from your homepage and robots.txt on 14 September 2026. The shortlist read is taken from the directory lists AI assistants cite for Dublin agencies, checked the same day. Because AI answers vary between runs, the firm standard is five runs per buyer question on each assistant before a rate is locked. That five-run pass is the immediate next step.

Three problems

Why the work is not reaching the answer.

None of these is about the quality of your work. They are about what the machines that now shape a buyer’s shortlist can see, understand, and repeat.

~1,210 chars on homepage

There is very little for AI to read.

The homepage is thin, and the abstract “Proper Problems” positioning gives a model almost nothing concrete to repeat.

What it costsEven a willing assistant finds little to say about you.
Name “Ringers”

The name is a common word.

“Ringers” collides with boxing, darts and “dead ringer”, adding entity-resolution noise.

What it costsHarder for AI to be sure the page is you.
0 / 6 Dublin lists

Off the directory shortlist.

The lists AI cites for Dublin agencies do not name you, so you are outside the consideration set.

What it costsAbsent before the comparison even starts.

Why this is fixable

You have built the hard part. The visible part is the gap.

Positioning strengthWhat you have built
High
Schema presentWhat you have built
High
On-page textWhat buyers see
Low
Name clarity to AIWhat buyers see
Low
Directory presenceWhat buyers see
Low
What you have built What buyers’ AI can see

Good bones, thin surface.

The foundation is sound: the schema exists and the positioning is clear. The score is held down by how little quotable text sits on the page. Adding concrete, factual copy is fast and moves several dimensions at once.

One honest note before the upside. Direct traffic from AI is still small today. The prize here is not the click. It is being on the shortlist at all, because when an assistant recommends you it has already told the buyer why you fit, so the introduction arrives pre-qualified.

We will walk you through all of this, live, at no charge.