We built AI tools to run our Scottish shutter business. Now we package two of them as 48-hour reports for yours.
For eighteen months we have been building AI tools to run The Scottish Shutter Company. A quotation engine that turns a measurement form into a 12-page PDF in 8 minutes. Marketing attribution that ties every advertising pound to a customer and a profit number. A planning leads scraper that runs at 5am.
Two of the standalone reports we built for ourselves are now available to other businesses. Each comes in two halves. Part one is the diagnosis: exactly what we found, in detail. Part two is the prescription: what to fix, in what order, for the biggest gain. The whole thing lands within 48 hours.
We built it for ourselves first.
Every report we sell, we use ourselves, every day, in a real business with real money on the line. The Brain runs SSC behind the scenes. The two reports above are what we extract from it for everyone else.
The other businesses who saw the results, accountants, beauty salons, tradespeople, consultants, all asked the same thing: can you do this for us? So now we do. You get the 48-hour report. The twelve months of building stays on our side.
We did not set out to build an AI consultancy. We set out to run our business better. The consultancy is what happened when other people saw the results.David Browne, Project Director
Productised Tools, Fixed Prices
Built from the same systems we use on our own commercial work. Pay once, get the deliverable, no consultation needed.
Three Ways to Work with Us
Every engagement starts with understanding your business. We recommend the right level, not the most expensive one.
- Competitive Intelligence Report
- AI Visibility Assessment
- Google Ads Audit
- Website Performance Audit
- Email Deliverability Audit
- Landing Page Audit
- Everything in First Intelligence
- Market Landscape Analysis
- Expert Council Deliberation
- Bundled pricing (save 15%+)
- Strategy call included
- The SSC Brain Guarantee
- Monthly intelligence report
- Competitive monitoring alerts
- AI visibility tracking
- Priority turnaround
- Custom AI automation projects
- Monthly strategy call
- Cancel any time
Not sure which tier? Begin with an AI Visibility Assessment (£495) and we will recommend the right level.
Real Work, Real Results
Not mockups. Not demos. These are live intelligence projects delivered to businesses that needed answers.
AI Visibility Assessment + Implementation Support
A full AI visibility audit for a UK procurement consultancy. Sixty queries across four AI platforms, a benchmarked score, a seventeen-item action plan, and ongoing implementation support as the work was rolled out.
“The initial SSCBrain report blew me away with the level of detail and amount of content. The best money I’ve spent on marketing in years.” — Simon Unger, The Procurement Group
9 Strategic Intelligence Reports
Complete competitive analysis suite for an Edinburgh beauty salon. Market positioning, competitor pricing, Google Ads audit, social media strategy, and customer acquisition roadmap.
“The reports showed us things about our competitors we had never even thought to look for.” — Sarah Aherne, Shwe Beauty
3 Business Strategy Reports
Strategic intelligence for a facilities management consultancy. Market landscape, competitor positioning, and growth opportunity identification across the Scottish FM sector.
“We had no idea how exposed we were until we saw the competitive landscape mapped out.” — Business Journey Mapping
Full Competitive Intelligence Suite
Comprehensive competitive intelligence for a growing accountancy practice. Identified pricing gaps, positioning opportunities, and digital marketing weaknesses across key competitors.
AI Brand Visibility Tracking
Ongoing monitoring of brand visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. Weekly scoring, competitor comparison, and optimisation recommendations.
What You Actually Receive
Professional PDF reports with scoring, competitor benchmarks, and a step-by-step action plan. Not a dashboard. Not a slide deck. A document you can act on.
How It Works
Right now, most owner-managed businesses make decisions based on gut feel, a quick Google search, and what someone mentioned at a networking event. The alternative is hiring a consultancy for £10,000+ and waiting six weeks. We sit in the middle: consultancy quality intelligence, delivered in 48 hours, for a fixed price. Three steps. No jargon.
Book a Call
15 minutes. Tell us the question you need answered and we will confirm the right scope, timeline, and price before you commit to anything.
We Build Your Intelligence
Our AI systems research, analyse, and compile your report. A human reviews every output before it reaches you.
Act on Better Data
A professional PDF report, delivered within 48 hours. Ready to act on, share with your team, or present to your board.
SSC Brain Is Not for Everyone
We would rather tell you now than waste your time and ours.
This is for you if
- You need a well researched strategic report to make a better decision
- You want to understand your competitive landscape before spending money
- You are an owner or director making real decisions with real consequences
- You value clarity and evidence over gut feeling
This is not for you if
- You need a real time data dashboard or live analytics platform
- You want a full time marketing team or ongoing campaign management
- You are looking for someone to implement the recommendations for you
- You need enterprise scale data processing or API access
The Small Business AI Visibility Playbook
What a small business can realistically do to get recommended by AI, based on research from 40+ published studies.
YouTube
Create 10 to 20 helpful videos answering questions your customers actually ask. Add proper transcripts and chapter markers. A video with 200 views but a detailed transcript is more valuable for AI visibility than a viral video with none.
Google Business Profile
Update weekly. Add photos regularly. Respond to every review. Use the Q&A feature to pre-answer common questions. This is the single most important source for Google AI's local recommendations.
Review Diversification
Having reviews only on Google means you are invisible to ChatGPT, which trusts Angi and Yelp, and Gemini, which trusts Facebook and Nextdoor. You need presence across platforms, not volume on one.
7 more actions inside the full playbook
All 10 actions ranked by impact and achievability, with time estimates, evidence, and what does NOT work. Based on research from Princeton, Ahrefs, Semrush, SOCi, and 40+ published studies.
Download the Playbook (PDF)Version 1.0 / 24 March 2026 / 40+ published research sources
Begin with an AI Visibility Assessment
£495 + VAT
How does your business appear when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation in your industry? We score your brand across all four major AI platforms and send you a professional report within 48 hours.
- Your visibility score across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity
- How you compare to your top competitors on each platform
- Which platforms recommend you, which ignore you, and why
- Specific actions ranked by impact to improve your AI visibility
- Professional PDF report ready to share with your team
98.8% of local businesses are invisible to AI. This report shows you exactly where you stand and what to do about it.
Or order a Website Performance Audit
£495 + VAT
The pattern across the first batch of Visibility Assessments was unmistakable. Most websites are quietly slow. Oversized images, scripts loading from too many places, mobile experiences like wading through treacle. None of it visible to the owner. All of it visible to Google, to the AI tools deciding what is worth quoting, and to a customer on a train trying to load your homepage on 4G.
- Your important pages tested with the same tools Google uses
- Real-user loading data Google quietly collects from every Chrome browser
- Side-by-side benchmark against your closest competitors
- Specific actions ranked by impact, in the order to fix them
- Professional PDF report ready to share with your team or developer
Most owners discover their site is slower than they thought, and slower than their competitors. This report shows you exactly where, and what to do about it.
Or order an Email Deliverability Audit
£495 + VAT New this month
Since Google and Yahoo tightened bulk sender rules in 2024 and Microsoft followed in 2025, legitimate small-business emails have quietly started landing in spam, getting rejected, or never arriving at all. The cause is almost always something invisible to the owner. A broken SPF record. A DMARC syntax error nobody noticed. DKIM that never got set up properly when you switched email providers. We find it in 48 hours and hand you the literal DNS records to paste.
- Every sending domain you use, checked for SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS-RPT, MTA-STS, BIMI
- DKIM selector scan across 30+ provider profiles (Brevo, Resend, Mailchimp, SES, and others)
- Domain blacklist status with proper false-positive filtering most online checkers miss
- Configuration hygiene: dangling DKIM records, stale SPF includes, subtle DMARC syntax errors
- Optional seed-test sends across Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Apple, ProtonMail, Fastmail
- The literal DNS records to paste, ranked by impact, with a safe DMARC enforcement ramp plan
We built this methodology by running it on our own infrastructure first. The week we launched the service, we found seven configuration issues on our own sending domains and fixed them. Everything in this audit was validated against real production setups before we let it near a customer.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Book a 15 minute call. No pitch, no pressure. Tell us the decision you are trying to make, and we will tell you which report would answer it, what it costs, and how long it takes. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
Or email directly: hello@sscbrain.co.uk