B
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24 -- ai search absence count for UK small businesses (2026)
On average, an audited UK small business was absent from 24 of the 34 core customer questions tested across AI assistants.
- Self-selected sample of UK small businesses that tested their visibility, not a random national sample
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Value
24
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
151
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
AiBoost
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Tier A
https://aiboost.co.uk/state-of-ai-search-visibility-uk-2026/ ↗
Source Article
The State of AI Search Visibility for UK Small Businesses, 2026
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AiBoost
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Methodology
Average across 151 audited businesses; 34 AI-generated customer questions posed to AI assistants including ChatGPT and Gemini
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Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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UK small businesses: 24 ai search absence count. Source: AiBoost (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-smb-ai-absent-24-of-34-questions-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-smb-ai-absent-24-of-34-questions-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>24</strong> -- ai search absence count for UK small businesses<br><small>Source: AiBoost (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-smb-ai-absent-24-of-34-questions-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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