Renovation platforms, not design firms, collect the biggest share of AI citations in this industry. This chapter measures AI search for interior design firms in Singapore in November 2026, on questions about renovation costs and choosing a designer. The panel has 23 buyer questions per engine. MET Interior has the highest composite citation score, 59.4 out of 100. The Interior Lab, the first design firm in Google’s results for “interior design singapore”, shares rank =17 of 20.
The ranking: 20 interior design businesses by AI visibility
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ChatGPT: 2 · Gemini: 5 · Perplexity: 5 · Google AI Overviews: 7
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Linked citations in four scored engines. Equal scores share a rank. Scores describe visibility in this panel, not business quality.
Source: Ahrefs Brand Radar, Singapore, November 2026.
View data: AI citation leaderboard
| Rank | Business | Score | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | AI Overviews | Google rank | DR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MET Interior | 59.4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | - | 7 |
| 2 | Zenith Arc | 46.9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 21 |
| 3 | ACE Interior Design | 40.6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | - | 4 |
| =4 | PRDT Interiors | 37.5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 2.6 |
| =4 | Ace’s Design | 37.5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | - | 0.5 |
| 6 | Earth Interior Design | 34.4 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 33 |
| 7 | Local Werkz | 25.0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | 0 |
| =8 | Homescape | 21.9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 8 |
| =8 | Swiss Interior | 21.9 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | - | 32 |
| 10 | ID Work Studio | 18.8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | 4.2 |
| 11 | Renovation Contractor Singapore (RCS) | 15.6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 11 |
| =12 | Design Bureau | 12.5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | 4.4 |
| =12 | Larry Contractors | 12.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | 11 |
| =12 | AC Vision Design | 12.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 26 |
| =15 | Yang’s Inspiration Design | 9.4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 8 |
| =15 | Artisan Signature Creatives | 9.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | 0 |
| =17 | The Interior Lab | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 39 |
| =17 | Urban Home Design | 6.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 12 |
| 19 | SG Interior Design | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | 6 |
| 20 | Space Atelier | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 22 |
Engine columns show listed citation counts, summed across host variants. One answer can contribute more than once. The panel contains 23 questions and 92 stored answers, none missing. Score: up to 25 points per engine, with full marks at 8 citations (how the score works). It is not a quality rating. ”=” marks a shared score; rows inside a tie are in display order only. Google rank is the organic position for “interior design singapore” (Ahrefs, 11 November 2026); ”-” means not in the recorded results. DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating. Answers dated 19 September to 13 November 2026. Source: e-Alchemists analysis of Ahrefs Brand Radar data, Singapore, November 2026.
Original ranking data and notes
| Rank | Business | Score (0–100) | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MET Interior | 59.4 | |
| 2 | Zenith Arc | 46.9 | |
| 3 | ACE Interior Design | 40.6 | |
| =4 | PRDT Interiors | 37.5 | |
| =4 | Ace's Design | 37.5 | |
| 6 | Earth Interior Design | 34.4 | |
| 7 | Local Werkz | 25 | |
| =8 | Homescape | 21.9 | |
| =8 | Swiss Interior | 21.9 | |
| 10 | ID Work Studio | 18.8 | |
| 11 | Renovation Contractor Singapore (RCS) | 15.6 | |
| =12 | Design Bureau | 12.5 | |
| =12 | Larry Contractors | 12.5 | |
| =12 | AC Vision Design | 12.5 | |
| =15 | Yang's Inspiration Design | 9.4 | |
| =15 | Artisan Signature Creatives | 9.4 | |
| =17 | The Interior Lab | 6.2 | |
| =17 | Urban Home Design | 6.2 | |
| 19 | SG Interior Design | 3.1 | |
| 20 | Space Atelier | 0 |
Linked citations only. Equal scores share a rank and equal-length bars.
Source: e-Alchemists analysis of Ahrefs Brand Radar data, Singapore, November 2026.
Three findings
Renovation platforms take the biggest share of citations
The top-15 domain lists on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews hold 297 citations. Aggregators take 144 of them (48%) and the firms themselves 108 (36%). Qanvast is the sole most-cited domain on Google AI Overviews (10 citations) and joint most-cited on ChatGPT and Perplexity (11 each). HomeMatch, a matching platform, appears in the top 15 on all four engines.
Google’s first page and the AI shortlist barely overlap
For “interior design singapore”, the first design firm on Google is The Interior Lab at organic position 5, behind three listing and guide sites and a materials supplier. It shares =17 here with one other firm, on 2 citations. Space Atelier, at organic position 7, is not cited in any of the 92 stored answers. MET Interior, which does not appear in the organic results recorded for that term, has the most raw citations, 19, four more than Zenith Arc. Domain Rating does not line up with the ranking either. MET Interior has a DR of 7; The Interior Lab has 39.
Six firms, four engines
Only 6 of the 20 firms are cited by all four engines. Earth Interior Design has 11 ChatGPT citations, joint first there with Qanvast, and none from Gemini. Local Werkz has the reverse pattern: 5 Gemini citations, joint first there with MET Interior, and none from ChatGPT. Swiss Interior gets 6 of its 7 citations from Perplexity. A firm that checks only one engine sees a fraction of its position.
Who AI cites instead
The non-business sources are mostly renovation platforms and money sites. Pooled over the four engines’ top-15 lists, the biggest are Qanvast (34 citations), HomeMatch (26), MoneySmart (18 on moneysmart.sg plus 10 on blog.moneysmart.sg) and Lookup.sg (16). On Perplexity, Yahoo Finance Singapore shares first place with Qanvast (11 citations each), and Goodrich Global, a wallpaper and flooring supplier, makes the top 15 on two scored engines. No firm is the sole most-cited domain on any of the four engines. Government sources take 8 of the 297 citations (3%); HDB’s site is cited 4 times on ChatGPT.
Google vs AI in interior design
Google organic position 5
AI rank: =17
Highest AI score: 59.4 / 100
Google term: interior design singapore. AI ranks apply only within this panel; tied scores share their rank.
View data: Google vs AI in interior design
| Google, “interior design singapore” (11 Nov 2026) | AI, by composite score | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qanvast (platform) | MET Interior |
| 2 | Hometrust (platform) | Zenith Arc |
| 3 | Hafary (supplier) | ACE Interior Design |
None of Google’s top 3 results is a design firm, and none of AI’s top 3 is in Google’s top 3. Zenith Arc is the only firm in both Google’s top 10 (organic position 8, with a “best interior design firms” list page on its own site) and AI’s top 3. In Ahrefs’ 24 August 2026 snapshot for “interior designer singapore”, the top three results are Qanvast, Hometrust and a Reddit thread.
Technical readiness
View data: Technical readiness
| Check (out of 20 firms) | Count |
|---|---|
| Any barrier to AI crawlers (robots.txt block, or error to a GPTBot user-agent) | 3 of 20 |
| Publish llms.txt | 10 of 20 |
| Homepage carries JSON-LD structured data | at least 18 of 20 |
| LocalBusiness-type schema on the homepage | at least 18 of 20 |
Three of the 20 firms block GPTBot in robots.txt. None bars OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User or PerplexityBot from its homepage. Training-crawler rules and search-crawler rules are different. 7 of the 20 homepages carry FAQ schema. Counts only, from one homepage check on 14 November 2026.
The interior design playbook
Each move below is a test to run and track, not a result this study measured.
→ Test a cost guide. 16 of the 23 questions ask what interior design, renovation or carpentry costs. A guide with real ranges by flat type matches those questions.
→ Keep platform profiles accurate. Qanvast and HomeMatch appear in the top 15 on all four engines. A complete, current profile there is sensible housekeeping.
→ Check every engine separately. Earth Interior Design is cited 11 times by ChatGPT and not once by Gemini; Local Werkz shows the opposite pattern. Track each engine every month.
→ Read your robots.txt line by line. If you block training crawlers, confirm that OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User and PerplexityBot are still allowed, then verify with your server logs.
How this was measured
We took every interior design or renovation question with buying or local intent in Ahrefs Brand Radar’s Singapore prompt database (23) and counted the citations to each firm’s website in the stored answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews (AI Mode and Copilot recorded, not scored). The 20 firms are the eligible ones in Google’s recorded organic results for the two head terms, plus the most-cited firms in AI. Full method: How we measured this.
The 23 questions
- How much do interior designers cost in Singapore?
- Who is the best interior designer in Singapore?
- What is the cheapest way to renovate?
- How much to renovate a 1000 square feet condo in Singapore?
- What is the average renovation cost in Singapore?
- Do interior designers need a license in Singapore?
- How much does it cost to renovate a kitchen in Singapore?
- How much does it cost to renovate flooring in Singapore?
- How much does it cost to renovate an office in Singapore?
- How much does interior design cost in Singapore?
- How much does it cost to hire an Interior Designer in Singapore?
- How much does home renovation cost in Singapore?
- How much does carpentry cost in Singapore?
- How many interior design firms are there in Singapore?
- How much do interior designers charge in Singapore?
- How much does it cost to renovate a landed property in Singapore?
- How much does a renovation cost in Singapore?
- How to choose an interior designer in Singapore?
- What is the most popular interior design style in Singapore?
- How much does an interior designer charge in Singapore?
- How do I choose a renovation contractor in Singapore?
- How much does an interior designer cost in Singapore?
- How much does it cost to hire an interior designer in Singapore?
Measured, not modelled. With 23 questions per engine, one or two citations either way is not meaningful.
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