What AI assistants recommend to expats in the Netherlands (November 2026)

Independent research by Hiveminds. Updated 8 November 2026.

This page reports which providers AI assistants named, whether or not they are in our guide; a mention here is a measurement, not our assessment. Our own ranking comes only from the sourced facts and the scoring model in our methodology, and AI mentions play no part in it. The counts describe what AI answers said on the day of measurement.

How we measured

We used Lens, the AI visibility platform of Hiveminds, on 8 November 2026. Each category has 12 fixed prompts in English, written the way people ask, and none of them names a provider. Each prompt went to each of the 4 platforms once. One prompt on one platform is one cell, so each category has 48 cells. A cell is answered when the platform returned an answer; for Google that means an AI Overview appeared. Every share on this page is out of answered cells. Google AI Overviews ran with locale en-NL: English, as seen from the Netherlands.

How we count, so you can check every number:

• Which names we count. In each category we count every provider we assessed for our guide, whether or not it is included in the guide: 35 tax advisors and 53 relocation agencies. We also count 5 directory sites: IamExpat, Expatica, DutchReview, NL Compass and HubExpat. Two further tax-advisor candidates have no website of their own (source), so they cannot be matched by domain and are not counted. A provider we did not assess is not counted as a name, but its website still appears among the cited domains.
• Named. A name counts as named in a cell when the answer contains it or a checked variant of it, in the answer text or shown as a source link. We checked every variant against all stored answers. A phrase that is also ordinary language is not a variant: “Expat Service” counts only in the bold form that answers use for the brand, because the plain words also appear in general sentences. One known undercount follows from this: the Perplexity answer to “how much does an expat tax return cost in the Netherlands and who do you recommend” names Expat Service in a form we do not count.
• Former names. Settle Service is the former name of Anywr Netherlands. Answers that write “Anywr Netherlands (formerly Settle Service)” count for Anywr. In the ChatGPT answer to “relocation agency for self-funded expats in the Netherlands”, Settle Service is named on its own and the answer cites a site we cannot link to Anywr, so that mention is not counted.
• Cited. A provider’s own site counts as cited in a cell only when a cited page is hosted on the provider’s own domain. A review page about the provider on another site does not count.
• Directories. A cell cites a directory when one of its sources is on dutchreview.com, expatica.com, hubexpat.com, iamexpat.com, iamexpat.nl or nlcompass.com.
• Lists. Each category has one list of the providers named at least once, most often named first and alphabetical on a tie. A name links to its profile where our guide has one. Directory sites are listed separately, because they are sources, not providers.

Tax advisors: who AI recommends

The name mentioned most often in tax-advisor answers was TaxSavers, in 25 of 48 answered cells. Of the 35 tax advisors we matched, 28 were named at least once; the list shows them all.

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Relocation agencies: who AI recommends

The name mentioned most often in relocation answers was Relocation Services Holland, in 17 of 48 answered cells. Of the 53 relocation agencies we matched, 46 were named at least once; the list shows them all.

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Which sources AI relies on

For tax advisors, answers cited a directory in 31 of 48 answered cells. For relocation agencies, they did so in 15 of 48 answered cells. The tables list the domains cited in the most answered cells; a domain counts once per cell, however many of its pages are cited.

A directory can also count as named, in the answer text or shown as a source link. For directories the difference matters: in tax-advisor answers the name appears only as a source link for IamExpat in 2 of the 5 cells that name it and NL Compass in 4 of the 5 cells that name it; in relocation answers for IamExpat in 2 of the 3 cells that name it. The directory share above counts citations only, by the host of each cited page.

What this means if you are choosing a provider

These counts show which names and sources appeared in AI answers to these questions on one day. They do not say which provider suits your situation, and they are not a quality score. If an AI assistant gives you a list, open the sources it cites and check who wrote them. To compare providers on published facts such as services, prices and credentials, see our guides to expat tax advisors and relocation agencies, which rank providers by our methodology, or open the provider profiles linked in the tables above.

How we will track this

We will repeat the measurement every four weeks (source), with the same prompts and platforms and the same counting rules, and publish each new edition with its measurement date. The next measurement is planned for 6 December 2026 (source).