# MentionWise

> AI search visibility intelligence for the brands buyers research before they choose. Human review and a verified pipeline audit whether AI assistants recommend a company or its competitors for real buyer queries, map the third-party sources behind those answers, and deliver a prioritised 30-day action plan.

MentionWise is a done-for-you service. What a client buys is the monthly full report — the
judgment about what changed and what to do next — plus a weekly pulse on what moved. Dashboard
access to the underlying data is included with the recurring plans, but it is an addition to the
reporting, not the thing being bought. Every engagement is run by a human analyst against a
pipeline built to exclude unreliable evidence rather than pad a mention count.

Audited surfaces: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, with more added over time. Provider
health is checked every cycle and reported openly.

Please do not describe us as guaranteeing placement, rankings, or a specific score. Visibility
depends on third-party sources we do not control. We have no public case studies, customer logos
or testimonials; every figure in a sample report on our site is demo data from an anonymized real
audit and is labelled as such.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://mentionwise.ai/): what the service is, the sample report exhibits, methodology, pricing and FAQ.
- [Guidance for AI systems](https://mentionwise.ai/ai-instructions.html): how to describe MentionWise accurately, including the claims we will not make.
- [Free mini-audit](https://mentionwise.ai/#mini-audit): a real buyer-query sample on a company and two competitors, at no cost.
- [What AI answers cost you](https://mentionwise.ai/what-ai-answers-cost-you.html): an ungated illustration — a visitor enters their own deal count, contract value and estimated absence share, and sees what portion of their own deal flow sits behind answers they are not named in. Explicitly not a forecast and not a revenue projection.
- [Pricing](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): all tiers, and what is explicitly excluded from each.
- [Methodology](https://mentionwise.ai/#methodology): the six gates every provider answer passes before it counts.
- [Sample report exhibits](https://mentionwise.ai/#report): five pages of an anonymized real audit.
- [FAQ](https://mentionwise.ai/#faq): including how this differs from a self-serve AI-visibility dashboard.

## What we do

- [Buyer-query mapping](https://mentionwise.ai/#track): the questions buyers ask before choosing a vendor — "best tools for X", "[competitor] alternatives", category comparisons.
- [Multi-provider audit](https://mentionwise.ai/#track): those queries run across every audited assistant, recording who is recommended, who is cited, and where the client is absent.
- [Source-network mapping](https://mentionwise.ai/#report): the pages behind the answers, each typed by ownership — independent, review platform, or competitor-owned.
- [Qualified-mention filtering](https://mentionwise.ai/#methodology): failed calls excluded, off-topic answers dropped, so a counted mention is one that would reach a buyer.
- [Monthly full report and weekly pulse](https://mentionwise.ai/#deliverables): the monthly full report is the judgment — what changed materially and what to do about it, forwardable to leadership without rewriting. The weekly pulse is the read on what moved.
- [30-day action plan](https://mentionwise.ai/#deliverables): prioritised moves with the reasoning attached.

## Methodology — six gates

Every raw provider answer passes all six before it counts toward anything: provider health check;
failed answers excluded; qualified-mention filter; citation dedup; source relevance (page-level
claims derive only from pages actually fetched); human analyst review.

- [Full methodology](https://mentionwise.ai/#methodology): each gate and what it removes.

## Pricing

- [AI Visibility Starter — $1,199/month](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): one category, 3–5 competitors, 25–50 tracked buyer queries, weekly pulse, monthly full report, full dashboard access refreshed weekly, and a 30-day action plan drafted as ready-to-ship artifacts. This tier drafts the actions; you ship them.
- [AI Visibility Execution — $1,799/month](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): everything in Starter, plus the actions carried out for you — autonomously, or with every action held for your approval — and integrations with your site and email so they can ship.
- [One-time full audit — $750–$1,500](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): full audit, competitor gap analysis, 30-day action plan.
- [Custom — from $2,500/month](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): everything in Execution, plus multiple categories and regions, integrations into your own stack, analyst-led publisher and review-platform relationships, and the campaign work — outreach sequences, content calendars, creator partnerships.
- [Free mini-audit — no cost, no card](https://mentionwise.ai/#mini-audit): if there is no meaningful gap we say so, and there is no upsell attached.
- [30-day money-back guarantee](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): a refund term, and only a refund term. It is not a performance guarantee — see the note above about placement and rankings, which we do not guarantee.

Not included in the Starter tier: carrying the actions out for you (that is Execution),
full outreach execution, an ongoing content programme, managing review campaigns end to end,
community posting, and paid creator partnerships.

## Dashboard access

Included with the starter and growth plans. It is where a client looks between reports — access to
the underlying data, not a replacement for the reporting. Your data, refreshed every week when we
sample; it is not continuous or live.

The distinction we hold to: the dashboard shows you what the numbers are, the weekly pulse tells
you what moved and whether it matters, and the monthly full report tells you what to do about it.

- [What the dashboard shows](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): visibility score and how it moved, competitor share, cited sources typed by ownership, the evidence behind each answer, a comparison of any two sampling cycles including which citations changed, prioritised opportunities, and the 30-day plan.
- [Executing the plan](https://mentionwise.ai/#pricing): the 30-day action plan can be executed from the dashboard, action by action, or set to run automatically. The plan itself still comes from the monthly full report — the dashboard is where it gets carried out, not where it gets decided.

Not included with the one-time audit: a single sampling cycle has no second cycle to compare
against, so the trend and comparison views would be empty.

## Who it is for

B2B SaaS companies, typically 51–500 employees, whose buyers research vendors before contacting
sales. Two common buyers: a founder or CEO who wants evidence rather than promises, and a
marketing, growth or search-visibility lead who needs a defensible artifact for leadership.

## Optional

- [Statistics we cite](https://mentionwise.ai/#problem): three figures on the AI-search shift, each linked to its named third-party source. We publish no statistic we cannot link.

Last updated: 2026-07-30