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Barbers in Edinburgh that AI assistants recommend

Ruffians is named most, in 64% of 36 answers.

The ranking

AI Recommendation Rate

Barbers in Edinburgh named by AI assistants, November 2026

  1. 1Ruffians64%

    95%: 48 to 78%

    ChatGPT
    100%
    Claude
    83%
    Gemini
    8%
    Questions
    4 of 4
    Avg. position
    1.3

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from ChatGPT and Claude
    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from ChatGPT and Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from ChatGPT and Claude

    Also written Ruffians Edinburgh, Ruffians Barbers Edinburgh, Ruffians Barbers

    Is this your business?
  2. 2Murdo's Barbers22%

    95%: 12 to 38%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    67%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    3 of 4
    Avg. position
    2.6

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Claude

    Also written Murdo's Barbershop

    Is this your business?
  3. 3West End Barbers19%

    95%: 10 to 35%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    58%
    Questions
    3 of 4
    Avg. position
    1.4

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Gemini

    Also written West End Barber Shop, West End Barber, West End Barber Co.

    Is this your business?
  4. 4Empire Barbers19%

    95%: 10 to 35%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    58%
    Questions
    3 of 4
    Avg. position
    2.3

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Gemini
    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from Gemini

    Also written Empire Barbering

    Is this your business?
  5. 5The Barber Co.14%

    95%: 6 to 29%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    42%
    Questions
    3 of 4
    Avg. position
    2.4

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Gemini
    Is this your business?
  6. 6Barber Road11%

    95%: 4 to 25%

    ChatGPT
    33%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    2

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from ChatGPT

    Also written Barber Road Edinburgh

    Is this your business?
  7. 7Barber & Groom11%

    95%: 4 to 25%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    33%
    Questions
    3 of 4
    Avg. position
    2.3

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from Gemini
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Gemini
    Is this your business?
  8. 8The Edinburgh Barbers11%

    95%: 4 to 25%

    ChatGPT
    8%
    Claude
    25%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    3 of 4
    Avg. position
    3

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from ChatGPT
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Claude

    Also written The Barber Shop Edinburgh

    Is this your business?
  9. 9Hutchison's Barber Shop8%

    95%: 3 to 22%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    25%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    1

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Gemini
    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from Gemini

    Also written Hutchison's Barbershop

    Is this your business?
  10. 10The Edinburgh Barber8%

    95%: 3 to 22%

    ChatGPT
    8%
    Claude
    17%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    2

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from ChatGPT and Claude

    Also written The Barber Edinburgh

    Is this your business?
  11. 11Sink and Anchor8%

    95%: 3 to 22%

    ChatGPT
    25%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    3.3

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from ChatGPT
    Is this your business?
  12. 12The Gentlemen's Barber6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    8%
    Claude
    8%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    2

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from ChatGPT

    Also written The Gentleman's Barber Edinburgh, The Gentlemen's Barber Edinburgh

    Is this your business?
  13. 13The Refinery Edinburgh6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    17%
    Questions
    1 of 4
    Avg. position
    2

    Named in answers to

    • Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?, from Gemini
    Is this your business?
  14. 14The Chap's Barbershop6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    17%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    1 of 4
    Avg. position
    2.5

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Claude
    Is this your business?
  15. 15The Players Lounge6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    17%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    1 of 4
    Avg. position
    2.5

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from ChatGPT
    Is this your business?
  16. 16School Cuts Barbers6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    17%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    3

    Named in answers to

    • I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Claude
    Is this your business?
  17. 17The Barber's Den6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    17%
    Questions
    1 of 4
    Avg. position
    3

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Gemini
    Is this your business?
  18. 18The Emporium of Barbering6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    17%
    Claude
    0%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    1 of 4
    Avg. position
    3

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from ChatGPT

    Also written The Emporium Barbershop

    Is this your business?
  19. 19Birds and Bees Barbers6%

    95%: 2 to 18%

    ChatGPT
    0%
    Claude
    17%
    Gemini
    0%
    Questions
    2 of 4
    Avg. position
    4

    Named in answers to

    • Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?, from Claude
    • Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?, from Claude

    Also written Birds and Bees Barbershop

    Is this your business?

Open a row to see each assistant's share of its own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 36 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.

Barbers in Edinburgh: is this your field?

55different names in 36 answers, 36 of them only once. The assistants change their minds from one answer to the next.

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Asked about barbers in Edinburgh, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named Ruffians most often, in 64% of answers (its AI Recommendation Rate), then Murdo's Barbers (22%) and West End Barbers (19%). Across 36 answers they named 55 different businesses, 36 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in November 2026.

The AI Recommendation Rate is the fraction of the 36 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.

Names are printed as the assistants wrote them. We have not checked that any of them is good, open, or real.

Barbers · Edinburgh

64% of answers named Ruffians

Answers
36
Businesses named
55
Named only once
36
Named by 2+ assistants
4 of 19
Named again on a rerun
41%

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What each assistant said

The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.

#ChatGPTClaudeGemini
1Ruffians100%Ruffians83%West End Barbers58%
2Barber Road33%Murdo's Barbers67%Empire Barbers58%
3Sink and Anchor25%The Edinburgh Barbers25%The Barber Co.42%
4The Players Lounge17%The Edinburgh Barber17%Barber & Groom33%
5The Emporium of Barbering17%The Chap's Barbershop17%Hutchison's Barber Shop25%

Questions about barbers in Edinburgh

How AI assistants recommend barbers

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named Ruffians most often, in 64% of 36 answers, then Murdo's Barbers (22%) and West End Barbers (19%). The names come from what the assistants answered to four buyer questions in November 2026; we have not checked that any of them is good, open or real.

Not always. ChatGPT named Ruffians most often (100% of its answers), Claude Ruffians (83%) and Gemini West End Barbers (58%). 4 of the 19 listed businesses were named by two or more of them.

Each question was asked three times. Of the names an assistant gave for a question, 41% came back in two or more of those runs; the rest came up once. The 95% range beside each rate in the ranking shows how far it could move by chance.

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Named by AI assistants: Barbers in Edinburgh, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, November 2026
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The questions

Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.

  1. 1Who is the best barber in Edinburgh?
  2. 2I'm looking for a barber in Edinburgh for a skin fade and a beard trim. Who would you recommend?
  3. 3Which barber in Edinburgh would you recommend for a hot towel shave?
  4. 4Which barber in Edinburgh takes walk-ins?

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What it measures
Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
Why the ranges matter
36 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
One business, several spellings
Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
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Edition November 2026 · published by Guglielmo Paesano, founder of AIGROW · data under CC BY 4.0