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Illuminaries

IT and Technical Services Β· Sheffield, South Yorkshire

AI Readiness Certificate

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AI Readiness Score
76 / 100
Leading
πŸ… AI Readiness Leader
Company:
Illuminaries
Location:
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Sector:
IT and Technical Services
Assessment date:
22 October 2026
Reference:
CI-AI-2026-705069
Directory Status:
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Executive Business Summary

Current score
76/100
AI readiness
Leading
AI visibility
High
Local discoverability
Low
Improvement potential
High

This business has several strong foundations for AI-powered search, but our assessment identified areas preventing AI systems from understanding the organisation as confidently as they could.

AI Readiness Benchmark

Independently assessed

32 points above the IT and Technical Services average.

Illuminaries scores the same as or higher than 98% of assessed businesses in its sector.

IT and Technical Services

Sector Β· 319 businesses assessed
Rank 7 of 319
Illuminaries
76Average
44Top score
85

Yorkshire

Region Β· 7,420 businesses assessed
Rank 43 of 7,420
Illuminaries
76Average
39Top score
89
All bars run from 0 to 100.

Compared against businesses in the UK AI Readiness Index, not every business in the sector.

AI Search Readiness Score

Technical crawlability & indexability10/10
AI crawler accessibility5/8
Entity identification & business clarity7/12
Structured data quality11/12
Content answerability12/12
Topical depth & expertise6/10
Geographic & local relevance5/10
Trust, authority & verification5/10
Technical performance & user experience7/8
AI discoverability & machine comprehension8/8
Overall76/100

AI Business Profile

Business name
Illuminaries
Sector
IT and Technical Services
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Geographic coverage
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire
Customer profile
Customers in and around Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire looking for a trusted provider of it and technical services.
Primary services identified
Website DevelopmentDatabase DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentBespoke Software DevelopmentBespoke Database DevelopmentWeb Development Services

AI systems currently have good confidence understanding this business, with some gaps that limit full confidence.

How AI Currently Sees This Business

AI confidently understands
  • This business operates in the IT and Technical Services sector.
  • This business serves customers in Sheffield.
  • This business offers website development.
  • This business offers database development.
AI is less certain about
  • robots.txt does not name any AI crawler individually β€” they are only covered by the catch-all rule.
  • The site does not link to any third-party review profile a reader could check.
  • No contact page offers both a tel: and a mailto: link a machine can follow.
  • No logo is declared in the structured data.
  • Structured data does not link the business to independent profiles a machine could cross-reference.
  • Pages do not declare in machine-readable form when they were last updated.

Key Issues Identified

High Priority
Your robots.txt does not name the AI crawlers individually
A technical barrier is limiting how AI crawlers reach this site.
High Priority
You do not link to any independent review profile
Independent trust signals are limited.
Medium Priority
Your contact details are not in links a machine can follow
An improvement opportunity was identified.
Medium Priority
Your logo is not declared in structured data
The site’s machine-readable business data is incomplete.
Medium Priority
Your structured data does not link to your profiles elsewhere
Medium Priority
Your pages do not say when they were last updated

Improvement Potential

Current score
76
Potential to improve visibility
High

We have identified 13 actions that could strengthen this website's AI readiness.

2
High-priority issues
9
Medium-priority issues
2
Low-priority issues

Improvement Roadmap

Your complete roadmap has been generated.

  • Detailed technical recommendations
  • Structured-data implementation guidance
  • Entity improvements
  • Content recommendations
  • Trust-signal improvements
  • AI crawler recommendations
  • Prioritised implementation order
  • Where the biggest visibility gains are

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About

Illuminaries is an IT and technical services company based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They specialise in bespoke software, database, and website development for a variety of clients.

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Services

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

Website DevelopmentDatabase DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentBespoke Software DevelopmentBespoke Database DevelopmentWeb Development ServicesKey capabilitiesDevelopment

Service areas

Detected from the business’s website during the assessment.

SheffieldSouth YorkshireDerbyshireYorkshire

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