Industry research
The AI Mention Report
Our published benchmark of how AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot actually mention brands. Real prompts, real answers, scored and documented.
The discoverability consultancy
Know where you stand in AI. Get ahead before your competitors do.
Mention Group gets you found and trusted across AI answers, search, maps, and reviews, then runs the ads that capture the demand. We publish the AI Mention Report. Now we run that lens on you.
Search is becoming the answer. The brands that get cited will own their categories. The rest quietly go invisible.
What discoverability means now
Three places people decide whether you exist.
We work the whole picture, not one slice. Because being found in one and absent in the others still loses you the customer.
01
Search & AI Answers
Generative Engine Optimization, with the SEO foundation under it. Whether ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity cite you when someone asks, and the speed, structure, and authority that make you the source they quote.
02
Geo & Local
Google Business Profile, maps, local packs, and the location signals that decide who shows up when someone nearby searches with money in hand. Consistency across citations, categories, and hours, so the high-intent “near me” moment ends at your door, your phone, or your booking page.
03
Reviews & Reputation
The trust layer that decides whether you get chosen. Review volume, recency, and response discipline across Google and the platforms your buyers actually check, the signals that feed maps rankings, buying decisions, and increasingly the AI answer itself. We build the system that earns them and the cadence that keeps them coming.
The real asset is the thinking. Paid media, run well, is how that thinking captures demand once you’re found: paid social, search, programmatic, and event campaigns that sell tickets at a profit. Tested relentlessly, reported plainly.
The flagship
Your AI Mention Report.
A strategic read on exactly where your brand stands, where your competitors are beating you, and the prioritized moves to get ahead. The work we love, the clarity you act on.
What's inside
- Where AI and search cite you today, and where they don't
- How you compare to the competitors in your category
- The specific gaps holding your visibility back
- A prioritized plan, ranked by impact, not busywork
- Optional: we run it, from media to content to reputation
Results, documented.
We do not theorize about AI search. We publish the benchmark.
We publish the AI Mention Report, a sourced, dated reading of who gets cited in AI answers. It is the same rigor we bring to your report, and the reason our strategy runs on evidence instead of hunches.
60:1
peak campaign ROAS scaling ticket sales for Museum of Ice Cream
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1M+
reached launching Jurassic Journey USA from a cold start, the team behind China Lights
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2013
female-founded as a communications firm, PR and social
The acquisition, in BizTimes ↗
The acquisition, in BizTimes ↗
2026
evolved into an AI search and discoverability consultancy, driven by research and results
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Whether you’re amplifying a cultural moment nationally or filling seats locally, the discipline is the same: the right message, the right platform, the right time.
Read the AI Mention ReportWho we do our best work with
Owners and missions, not procurement.
We're a research-led consultancy with Fortune 500 roots, experience no startup shop can claim. But our heart is with founder-led and family-owned companies that move fast, and mission-driven organizations where being found means more donors, families, and good done. We take a small number of engagements and go deep. We pass on commodity work.
Insights
Research you can read. Tools you can use.
We publish what we learn and build what we need. Start with the industry data, then get a reading on your own brand. See all insights →
Your own reading
Your Brand Scorecard
The same methodology, pointed at your brand. We test how AI platforms, search, maps, and reviews present you today, then hand you a clear scorecard of where you stand and what to fix first.
Digital trust
Accessibility, with AX4E
Being findable should include everyone. We work with AX4E (Access for Everyone), an accessibility specialist whose audit tooling and checklists help brands meet WCAG and Title II.
Why Mention
Strategy. Experience. Access.
We're not a social media shop promising leads you could get for free. You pay for the three things you can't: the thinking, the track record, and the bench.
01
Strategy
Research-led plans ranked by impact, the same rigor that builds the AI Mention Report. We will happily fight the AI for an hour to land the insight that's actually right.
02
Experience
Fortune 500 roots and a decade of national campaigns across paid social, search, programmatic, and connected TV. Tickets sold, venues filled, profits turned.
03
Access
A vetted, white-label bench of specialists across PPC, search, social, programmatic, and business development, all run under one Mention strategy and one accountable partner: us.
A note from the owner
When you work with Mention, you work with me.
I bought this firm a decade ago from its founder and rebuilt it into what it is today: a data-driven consultancy focused on strategy, analytics, and paid media. My career started in social inside the Fortune 500, which taught me to see a campaign from every seat at the table: the corporation, the buyer, the customer, and now the owner.
Off the clock I'm an Eagle Scout, a father of two, a baseball coach, and an avid bike rider. The same things that make those work, preparation, patience, and showing up, are how we run your account.
— Ryan Thompson, Owner
Our mission: make the people doing good work impossible to overlook.
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