The founders of The Stow Brothers estate agency

The founders of The Stow Brothers

“Schutle gave us a clear, structured way to show AI platforms exactly who we are and what we do, the results spoke for themselves within weeks.”

Kenny Goad, Co Founder of The Stow Brothers

Case study · Estate agency

How The Stow Brothers increased their AI visibility in 90 days.

An AI-ready data layer turned an established London agency's existing information and website into structured, machine-readable evidence, and AI platforms noticed.

Client

The Stow Brothers

Location

London, UK

Offices

Five

AI requests · monitored90-day window

TOTAL / MONTH 3

4,173+117%
30 days1,924
60 days3,054
90 days4,173

The challenge

An excellent website for people, but almost nothing built for AI.

AI is fast becoming another key way buyers and sellers research and choose an estate agent. Like most agencies, The Stow Brothers had a strong website for people and SEO, but little structured information designed for systems such as ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot.

The objective was clear: make the agency's expertise, property data and performance easier for AI platforms to discover, understand, retrieve and recommend.

The solution

A dedicated AI-ready data layer.

Schutle transformed The Stow Brothers' existing information into structured, referenceable, high-value, machine-readable data.

01

AI-optimised structured data

02

Machine-readable property information

03

Office and agent entities

04

Historic performance data

05

Area intelligence

06

AI crawler monitoring

07Continuous optimisation

An always-on layer that keeps the dataset fresh as listings, transactions and performance evolve.

Results · AI visibility growth

+100%

increase in new users from identifiable AI referrals.

This followed a 117% increase in identifiable AI and search crawler requests during the first 90 days. In the latest comparable period, AI-referred traffic increased by 44% and first-choice AI recommendations rose by 14.2%.

Total AI requests

Steady, compounding growth month on month.

Month 1 · April1,924
Month 2 · May3,054
Month 3 · June4,173

Additional requests

+2,249

Overall growth

+117%

Time frame

90 days

By platform · April → June

Growth across every leading AI platform.

Microsoft Bing+114%
7141528
Claude+369%
169793

A strong signal that Anthropic increasingly recognises and revisits the data.

OpenAI Search+193%
67196

OpenAI continued increasing retrieval and indexing activity throughout the period.

Googlebot+127%
109247

Google substantially increased crawl frequency as the dataset matured.

Live ChatGPT users+250%
2898

Retrieval driven by real ChatGPT users, not automated crawlers, the most encouraging metric of all.

Claude usersFirst live retrievals
06

Small in number, but June marked the first live Claude user retrievals against the data layer.

Why it matters

Traditional SEO ranks webpages. AI has to understand your business first.

Before an AI platform can recommend an estate agent, it needs to understand the business and trust the underlying data it references. Schutle makes that information visible, valuable, structured and accessible.

The result: sustained engagement from the world's leading AI platforms over a three-month period.

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Client outcome

From AI discovery to measurable website traffic.

After identifiable AI and search crawler requests increased by 117% during the initial 90 days, the next monitoring period showed that improved machine visibility developing into stronger recommendations and measurable website visits:

100%increase in new users from identifiable AI referrals
44%increase in identifiable AI-referred website traffic
14.2%increase in first-choice recommendations across monitored AI responses
49.2%of monitored ChatGPT responses placed The Stow Brothers first
338%increase in Google AI Overview answers containing a direct website link
2790AI responses analysed during the latest monitoring period

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