Second opinion

What do you look like
to the outside world?

An outside-in read of who you appear to help, how you help, and how you sound, to humans, search engines and AI agents.

Carried out without any access to your team or your analytics, because that's exactly how a prospective client, a search engine or an AI assistant views you. You'll get a fully researched document that your management team/board can understand and act on.

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The External Perception document: the human lens and the machine lens.

We only work with two organisations each month.

It’s free for teams we think we can genuinely help. By limiting the volume, we protect the quality of the work.

THE SCOPE

One audience, your choice.

Tell us who matters most right now: pension trustees, in-house counsel, procurement directors, referring intermediaries, whoever your next year depends on. We assess your organisation the way that one audience meets it.

We believe that one audience, properly reviewed, beats a shallow survey of your whole digital presence. And in our experience the choosing is useful in itself: for many organisations, naming one audience is the hardest question we ask.

Audience analysis example

Two lenses, our framework

Would your chosen audience recognise themselves?

The human lens

  • Can the audience find themselves on your site, following links the way a stranger would?
  • What journey are you helping them through and what jobs are you helping them get done?
  • How you sound to them: is the writing about you or about them?  Are you communicating clearly?
  • What products/services/value do you appear to offer them?

What does AI tell that audience about you?

The machine lens

  • Can machines find and read the pages that audience needs?
  • Does it have the correct structure, schema and machine-readability?
  • What signals are you sending?  Does your content explain your experience and expertise,  engender trust and showcase your authority?

What it can't tell you.

The Second Opinion is the outside view of one audience, and the outside view has no context. It can show you the gap between how you see yourselves and how that audience sees you. It cannot tell you whether that was the right audience to start with, what's wrong versus merely different, or what to fix first.

To do that requires context.  Your knowledge of your clients, products and services.  Our methodology and expertise in user experience and content strategy and most importantly, data, all working together, one audience at a time.

That part is paid work, which the process will help scope.

Adding context

After the Second Opinion: data, added as you need it.

The assessment usually raises a specific question on what to do next, and the answer determines what data we might need to add. So rather than a fixed package, there's a menu, priced from around £500 a component:

Your GA and Search Console data, added in

If prioritisation is the challenge

What people actually search for, land on and do, layered onto the assessment so the "what first?" decision is made with data rather than instinct.

The volume of each element will help determine what content to prioritise.

The AI Impact assessment

If you need to justify the investment

The zero-click risk and AI-referral upside in pounds and pence, as a board-ready pack. If you want the numbers refreshed monthly, it becomes a live Data Studio report.

Your server logs, decoded

If you need definitive proof

The definitive source of truth for how regularly the AI operators are accessing your site and what they do when they arrive.  Broken down by: training visits, search index building, live queries to answer questions and referrals.

SEMrush data, interpreted

If you need to integrate your existing SEO strategy

Rankings, competitors and keyword opportunity turned into specific, audience-centric recommendations, not a 90-page report.

Why free, and why only two a month?

Free is not a teaser; the document is complete and useful on its own. We keep it free because it's how we choose who we work with, and we cap it at two a month because each one is done properly, by us, not by a crawler with a PDF template. If your organisation isn't a fit, we'll tell you that too.