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Investor relations advisory firms: AI search visibility ranking (2026)

How AI search engines rank investor relations advisory firms by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Investor relations advisory firms helping public companies manage shareholder communications, earnings messaging, investor targeting, and capital markets narrative. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →

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When AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answer questions about investor relations advisory firms, ICR comes up most often, appearing in 37.5% of AI-generated responses across the engines tracked. Teneo and Alpha IR Group follow as the next most frequently named brands. If you are shortlisting firms, ICR is the clear starting point based on AI visibility alone.

The sources AI engines pull from most include growthequityinterviewguide.com, clutch.co, and odwyerpr.com, alongside teneo.com and linkedin.com. Two of those top five are aggregator or review-style sites, meaning firms with strong third-party coverage and consistent mentions across industry directories earn disproportionate AI visibility. A firm's own website matters less than how often neutral sources reference it.

For a buyer, the practical takeaway is this: AI visibility reflects third-party validation, not just brand size. Before selecting a firm, check whether it has recent coverage on PR industry directories and review platforms, and whether it has published thought leadership specific to your sector (public companies, IPO prep, activist defense). Firms with narrow topical authority in your exact situation may serve you better than a broadly visible generalist.

At a glance

Category leader ICR 38% visibility · named in 3 of 8 AI answers

Most cited brand Teneo 50% citation rate · the AI's most-trusted source brand in investor relations advisory firms

Top cited domain growthequityinterviewguide.com Referenced by AI across the investor relations advisory firms query set — the highest-leverage PR target in this category

Visibility spread 38pp Gap between top and bottom of the ranking · 19 brands at 0% (invisible to the AI)

What we observed in this categoryauto-generated

ICR leads the investor relations advisory category with a visibility score of 37.5%, against a category average of just 1.9%. This gap is substantial: ICR is the only brand with any measurable narrative presence in Google AI Mode responses. Its composite score of 30.0 dwarfs the next closest brand, Teneo, at 15.0. The scale of ICR's advantage suggests it has established a meaningful foothold in AI-generated answers while the rest of the category remains effectively invisible in descriptive output.

Teneo presents the most striking divergence between visibility and citation. It holds zero visibility yet a 50.0% citation rate, the highest in the category. Alpha IR Group mirrors this pattern with 0.0% visibility but 25.0% citations. This means AI systems are pulling from these firms' domains as sources without naming them in answers. ICR, by contrast, achieves both visibility (37.5%) and citation (12.5%), making it the only brand that is both named and trusted by the AI.

Google AI Mode is the sole engine recorded across all ranked brands, indicating the audit data reflects a single-engine landscape with no cross-engine comparison available. The top cited sources include third-party directories and guides such as growthequityinterviewguide.com, clutch.co, odwyerpr.com, and umbrex.com alongside brand domains like teneo.com and alpha-ir.com. This pattern suggests AI answers in this category are anchored partly on aggregator and editorial sources rather than brand-owned content alone.

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Biggest visibility risers

ICR 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #1
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The ranking

#	Brand	Visibility	Citation	Top engine
1	ICR icrinc.com	38%	12%	Google AI Mode
ICR is the only brand above zero visibility at 37.5%, nearly 20 times the 1.9% category average, with a composite score of 30.0 that no peer approaches.
2	Teneo teneo.com	0%	50%	Google AI Mode
Teneo has the highest citation rate in the category at 50.0% but zero visibility, meaning AI cites its domain as a source without naming it in generated answers.
3	Alpha IR Group alpha-ir.com	0%	25%	Google AI Mode
Alpha IR Group holds a 25.0% citation rate despite zero visibility, ranking it second for citations while remaining completely absent from AI-generated named responses.
4	Gateway Group gateway-grp.com	0%	12%	Google AI Mode
Gateway Group records a 12.5% citation rate equal to ICR's but achieves zero visibility, giving it a composite score of just 3.8 versus ICR's 30.0.
5	Joele Frank joelefrank.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
Joele Frank scores zero on both visibility and citation, placing it level with five other top-10 brands and reflecting the category's near-total absence from AI outputs.
6	Sard Verbinnen & Co sardverbinenn.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
7	FGS Global fgsglobal.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
8	Brunswick Group brunswickgroup.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
9	Kekst CNC kekstcnc.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
10	Morrow Sodali morrowsodali.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
11	Alliance Advisors allianceadvisors.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
12	Lambert by LLYC lambert.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
13	The Blueshirt Group blueshirtgroup.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
14	Addo Investor Relations addoir.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
15	IRTH Communications irthcommunications.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
16	Solebury Strategic Communications soleburystrat.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
17	Notified notified.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
18	Q4 q4inc.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
19	Edelman Smithfield edelmansmithfield.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode
20	LHA Investor Relations lhai.com	0%	0%	Google AI Mode

Sources AI engines trust in this category

Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on investor relations advisory firms, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.

growthequityinterviewguide.comteneo.comclutch.colinkedin.comodwyerpr.comumbrex.comcorporatesolutions.euronext.comalpha-ir.com

How to read this ranking

Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.

Visibility = being named

A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer. More on visibility →

Citation rate = being trusted

Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence, different from being named. More on citation rate →

Top engine differs by brand

The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps. How AI engines pick sources →

Rankings move month to month

AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically. How AI search ranking works →

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Frequently asked about investor relations advisory firms AI visibility

Who leads AI visibility in investor relations advisory firms?

ICR leads with 37.5% visibility, the only brand above zero in the category. The next ranked brand, Teneo, has zero visibility despite a 50.0% citation rate.

What is the average AI visibility score for investor relations advisory firms?

The category average visibility is 1.9% and the average citation rate is 5.0%, indicating that most brands in this space have negligible AI presence.

Which investor relations advisory brand is most cited by AI without being named in answers?

Teneo has the highest citation rate at 50.0% but zero visibility, meaning Google AI Mode references its domain as a source without naming it in generated responses.

What sources does AI anchor on most when answering queries about investor relations advisory firms?

The top cited sources include third-party sites such as growthequityinterviewguide.com, clutch.co, odwyerpr.com, and umbrex.com, alongside brand domains teneo.com and alpha-ir.com.

Which engine drives AI visibility for investor relations advisory firms?

All ranked brands in this audit share Google AI Mode as their top engine, with no other engine recorded, making this a single-engine visibility landscape.

How many investor relations advisory brands have both meaningful visibility and citation in AI outputs?

Only ICR achieves both, with 37.5% visibility and 12.5% citations. All other brands with any citation score record zero visibility.