AI search, SEO, social & paid media
Get found. Get trusted. Get customers.
Mention Group is a Milwaukee marketing agency for AI search (GEO), SEO, social media, and paid media. We study how your customers ask, search, scroll, and choose, then do the work that gets you found in all four places.
From travel and tourism to manufacturing, municipalities, events, professional services, and local businesses, we help organizations understand their market, sharpen their story, and turn visibility into action.
In the newsAs heard on WUWM 89.7 FM, Milwaukee’s NPR: our SmokeDar air-quality app. We build fast, with discoverability and accessibility baked in.
Discoverability means showing up where decisions now happen: AI answers, Google search, maps, reviews, social, and paid media.
Illustrative example. Your check uses your real data.
Where your customers decide now
Built for people. Readable by machines. Trusted by both.
What we do
Four places people decide whether you exist.
AI answers, search, social, and paid media. We do the research, the strategy, and the work, in all four.
AI Search & GEO
Get cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Structured content, entity authority, and the signals engines trust.
How we do itSEO & Local
Technical, content, authority, and maps. The foundation every AI answer is built on.
How we do itSocial Media
Organic social, community, listening, and engagement. The craft Mention was built on.
How we do itPaid Media
Google Ads, Meta, programmatic, and CTV. Capture the demand once you are found. With Mention Media.
See the Media practiceAlso in the toolkit: market and competitor research, website strategy and conversion, reviews and reputation, and accessibility reviews with a specialist partner.
Start here
Start with a free visibility check.
Tell us your brand and we’ll show you where you’re missing in AI answers, search, maps, and social, and what to fix first.
Want the full picture? The Mention Report adds a scored benchmark, competitor comparison, gap analysis, and a 30/60/90 plan ranked by impact.
Get a free visibility checkWhat the check covers:
- AI answers: who gets cited in your category, and whether it’s you
- Search and maps: rankings, technical health, and the near-me moment
- Social: where your buyers are, and whether you show up there
- Reviews and reputation signals engines and people trust
- Your own data, in plain language, yours to keep
See it for yourself
Which surface are you losing?
Pick where your buyers look. We’ll show the gap we most often find, and how we close it.
AI Answers
AI assistants name competitors and leave you out, or describe you on old positioning. We make your brand the cited source: structured content, entity authority, and the signals engines trust.
Get a free visibility check“Mention updated our website so it shows up better in AI search, and this year we’re already hearing from more customers through places like Gemini.”
Check your visibility
Tell us a little and we’ll check how your brand shows up in AI answers, search, and social.
Results, documented
We do not theorize about AI search. We measure it.
We publish the AI Mention Report, a sourced, dated reading of who gets cited in AI answers, then bring the same rigor to your search, social, and paid work.
Case studies
Real work, real outcomes.
A few of the brands and missions we’ve helped get found, get trusted, and grow.
+150% traffic, 2× ridership
Search, content, and campaign work for Ride Across WI grew website traffic 150% and doubled ridership.
Read the case study ↗Found at the high-intent moment
Local SEO, reviews, and paid media built for seasonal demand, with a steady stream of new 5-star reviews.
Read the case study ↗Reputation at scale
Multi-location reputation management across three locations, with dozens of new 5-star Google reviews.
See the work ↗Why Mention
A partner, not a vendor.
We help founder-led companies, family businesses, nonprofits, and growth teams become easier to find, easier to trust, and easier to choose, with Fortune 500 discipline and boutique attention.
Evidence-led
We publish a sourced AI visibility benchmark and run that same methodology on you. Our research discipline comes from years working with Forrester research: we build white papers and benchmarks, not hunches.
Full-funnel, one roof
Marketing to get found and trusted, Media to capture demand. One accountable partner.
Easy to work with
A vetted bench for scale, no bloated retainers, right-sized engagements, and you always get your own data.
Senior & boutique
You work with the owner and a senior team. Small on purpose, deep on craft.
A plan you can act on
Every engagement starts with a visibility check and a 30/60/90 plan ranked by impact.
Proven range
Trusted by 100+ brands and missions since 2013, from the Milwaukee Bucks and Northwestern Mutual to local challengers.
See where you stand today
Be the brand AI mentions, Google ranks, and people share.
Then decide how far ahead you want to get.