Holmes Murphy

Holmes Murphy is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Holmes Murphy provides customized commercial insurance, employee benefits, and risk management solutions for businesses. Independent brokerage serving clients since 1932." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.2 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clearly stated business identity and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on a workable page structure, a few credibility markers and basic crawler access. What holds it back is structured data describing the business.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together. The business dates to 2018.