MentionOS — autonomous AEO agent for AI search visibility

Ch. 01 · The shift

Shoppers stopped searching. They started asking.

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Let's use this as an example. Say you sell skincare and your brand is called Aurelia. A shopper opens ChatGPT, asks it, "What's the best fragrance-free moisturizer?" and hears one name: Aurelia (yours). She buys that afternoon and never searches Google. Today the answer is you. So how did ChatGPT land on Aurelia? It read what people say about you across the internet: the reviews, the Reddit threads, the "best of 2026" round-ups. The AI weighed all of it and named the brand it trusts most.

But that answer keeps changing. Tomorrow it could be Kindred, a competitor skincare brand one shelf over. And when ChatGPT names Kindred instead, there is no click to see, no abandoned cart, no ad that can chase her down. She asked, she bought from Kindred, and you never knew a customer came and went. Most brands never get named at all. MentionOS is your agent, and its whole job is keeping that name yours.

The four models MentionOS tracks today:

See how your agent handles it

How an AI answer gets built · step by step

It reads

Reads what people say about you

Reviews, Reddit threads and round-ups from across the internet. Where you rank on Google barely comes into it.

It weighs

Trusts steady praise over traffic

Steady, well-sourced praise is what makes a model confident enough to say a name out loud.

It cites

Leans on pages you don't own

The pages it quotes are written by other people. A competitor can climb them while you're not watching.

It names

Answers with one name

One name on top, said plainly and backed by a source. Today that name is Aurelia. Kindred wants it.

FIG 1.A

01 · Buyer asks confidence pending

"Best fragrance-free moisturizer for sensitive skin?"

02 · Reads sources confidence 61%

2,140 reviews reddit ×14 threads byrdie · allure +312 more

03 · Scores them confidence 88%

04 · The answer confidence 94%

"For sensitive skin, go with Aurelia. Reviewers consistently say it's the one that doesn't irritate."[1]

How the AI lands on a name

It gathers the sources, scores them, and comes out with one front-runner. Right now that name is Aurelia, with Kindred a few points back. Most brands never enter the conversation at all.

FIG 1.B

What the AI weighs Pull on the answer →

Customer reviews 4.7★ · 2,140 94

≈ what legacy SEO buys

Backlinks · domain rank page-1 SEO 9

Confidence, built from reputation 88%

Reputation moves it more than rank

Reviews, threads and round-ups push the answer. Backlinks barely register. Across 75,000 brands, mentions across the internet predict AI visibility about 3× more strongly than links.

FIG 1.C

r/SkincareAddiction Not your page

Best fragrance-free moisturizers: 2026 mega-thread

"…honestly Aurelia is the only one that never broke me out. Been repurchasing for a year straight."

▲ 1.2k 318 comments ranked #1

quoted as source →

ChatGPT

"For sensitive skin I'd recommend Aurelia. Reviewers repeatedly say it's the one that doesn't cause irritation.1"

1 reddit.com/r/SkincareAddiction · byrdie.com

You don't own this page. Yet it writes your verdict.

The page that decides belongs to someone else

On most AI models, your own site is only about 8% of what an answer cites. The rest is coverage you don't host. Your agent works both sides: winning you mentions across that coverage, and publishing to your own blog to build the pages that do get cited.

What this means for you

Every AI model reads a different slice of the internet, and each rewrites its answer as that changes. Staying the named brand is ongoing work. It needs someone on it every day.

Every other tool hands you a dashboard. A score, and a list of things for you to go do. MentionOS works another way. It's an agent you hire, an employee you train once. You teach it your brand: drop in your site, add anything else you want it to know, and it's set up for good. From there it watches ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI every day. It reads the answers like a senior analyst and tells you what moved your visibility and why. Then it does the work to win the mention, and most importantly... maintain it. A specialist on your team, working 24/7.

Figures cite Ahrefs (75,000-brand analysis), Profound, Semrush & Pew. AI-visibility studies, 2025–26. Example values inside the diagrams are illustrative.

Ch. 02 · Visibility

It never looks away, so it caught Kindred before you would have.

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Nobody can check on multiple LLMs every morning to see whether a rival has quietly taken a slice of your share. Your agent does it daily. It keeps one honest read of where you stand, tracks every competitor the LLMs mention, and the moment your position slips it flags it, finds the cause, and acts. AI answers are volatile. 40–60% of the sources they cite change within a month, so a report you ran once is already out of date.

FIG 2.A · 28-DAY WATCH · VISIBILITY

MentionOS · watching Aurelia

Prompt “best fragrance-free moisturizer for sensitive skin”

Scanning

last scan 2h ago

Visibility_34.2%_

Rank #1 of 12 tracked

Prompt coverage 18 / 24

Daily scans 28 days · 140 answers read

35302520 Visibility % 4 wks ago 3 wks 2 wks last wk today Today · scan #28 ◇ Detected · 4 days ago Kindred surging on Perplexity ◆ MentionOS acted shipped Aurelia coverage Kindred 30% ▲ +3.8/wk Bare Theory 18% Aurelia 34.2% · #1

Aurelia · you Kindred · closing Bare Theory ◇ detection ◆ agent intervention Illustrative · Aurelia example

The near-miss, and the recovery, on the record.

Kindred climbed for a week and drew level to a tenth of a point. The agent had already flagged it and shipped the answer; within days Aurelia pulled back ahead while Kindred flattened. A dashboard would have shown you this a week late, as a number that already moved.

MentionOS · Expert Read today · 07:14 · scan 28 of 28

Held #1

"You’re still #1 at 34%, but I want you to know Kindred moved. It climbed +3.8 pts in a week, almost all of it on Perplexity, after a new r/SkincareAddiction thread started out-citing you four days ago. I caught it, traced it, and shipped coverage to answer it. You've already recovered, but Perplexity is where they'll push next. That's where I'm watching."

Aurelia's visibility, model by model scan #28

holding

−2.1 pts

holding

holding

Visibility doesn't transfer across models. Each one reads a different slice of the web. Perplexity leans Reddit; Google AI leans your own site. That's why the loss shows up in just one column while the other three hold.

Coverage · shipped Watching Perplexity Live

Attribution · citation diff

Why the models moved

The agent diffed this scan's citations against the prior scan to locate what entered the models' reading set. The source no dashboard can name.

Cause located: a single new Reddit thread, weighted heavily by Perplexity, moved the answer. Brand mentions predict AI visibility ~3× more than backlinks. Coverage is the fix; links barely move it.

Ch. 03 · The read

It doesn't hand you a chart. It hands you a plan.

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Every night it reads every answer from every model. Then it works out what actually matters, and what to do about it. By morning you have a short, plain read: what changed, why, and the one thing to do today.

−3.8 pts cites you · #2 "best for sensitive skin" trustpilot 4.6★ Vis 34% evaluation: blank still #1 "gentle for eczema?" "never breaks me out" first-time shoppers exploration 11.5% reddit ×14 "fragrance-free?" sephora 4.5★ byrdie · allure Kindred +3.8

Visibility

34.2%

▼ 3.8 pts the headline

Mentions

1,204

▲ 73 wk actually rose

Funnel · top

11.5% near-invisible up top

Rival

Kindred

entering at exploration

Source

r/SkincareAddiction

fresh thread · feeds answers

Sentiment 87 / 100

🙂 "genuinely fragrance-free"

the headline lies the leak

The agent · reasoning

The plan

Get you named in those early questions, before Kindred does.

Drafted · awaiting your approval

The board it read

This is what it read to get there.

It already read all of this for you. If you want to see what it looked at, it's right here, but you never have to. Swipe through.

Swipe the board Illustrative · Aurelia example

Visibility i

Your brand's visibility trend across LLMs

34.2% Visibility score ▼ 3.8

Jul 21 · vs prior day

36% 34% 32% Jul 15 Jul 18 Jul 21

scan pending · Showing data for 7 days

Backs “visibility dipped 3.8 points.” 01 / 06

Rankings i

Period visibility rank across every LLM

All

Brand Vis SOV Sent Avg pos
#1 Aurelia YOU 34% 14% 🙂 87
#2 Kindred 30% 11% 🙂 79
#3 Bare Theory 18% 8% 😐 71

You lead every column. Kindred is the one climbing

Backs “still #1, and Kindred is the mover.” 02 / 06

Decision Journey i

Mention rate by funnel stage across LLMs

11.5% Learn TOFU Weak

31% Consider MOFU Moderate

92% Decide BOFU Strong

Strong where buyers are ready. Wide open where they start. That's the leak Kindred walks through.

Backs “you own the bottom, invisible up top.” 03 / 06

Position Distribution i

Where brands appear in AI responses

Brand #1 #2 #3 #4 Aurelia 92% 6% 2% · Kindred 18% 44% 26% 12% Bare Th. 4% 19% 38% 29%

Low High share of #1

Backs “when you show, you show first, 92%.” 04 / 06

Brand Perception i

How ChatGPT perceives your brand

ChatGPT

87/ 100

Positive 21%

Neutral 79%

Negative 0%

Praised as genuinely fragrance-free and gentle, but flagged as pricier than drugstore picks.

Backs “fragrance-free is your reputation.” 05 / 06

Content Types i

What kind of page the LLMs cite

Topic Guide

Content

46%

Review

Content

13%

Ranked List

Content

9%

Reddit Thread

Social

3.8%

Guides win. That's the shape your exploration play needs.

Backs “own the exploration prompts… with guides.” 06 / 06

01 – 06 · the working material

The move It's drafted. Waiting on your OK.

Ch. 04 · Autopilot

You decide how much runs without you.

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The move from last chapter is ready. At the top of the funnel, people just starting to look for skincare keep hearing Kindred first, and your brand never comes up. So the agent wrote "The gentle, fragrance-free skincare guide," built to get you named in those early questions too. It's drafted, fact-checked, and waiting in your review. Nothing publishes until you say so.

The move It's drafted. Waiting on your OK.

FIG 4.A · HOW MUCH RUNS WITHOUT YOU

Autopilot control

Aurelia · you own this switch

Review Autopilot

you set this

Review Default · on

You approve every piece before it goes live. The agent proposes, you tap Approve or Decline. Nothing ships until you say so.

In your review queue 1

Article · publish-ready Waiting on your OK

The gentle, fragrance-free skincare guide

Written to be the page an LLM reaches for in the early, exploratory questions: fragrance-free, sensitive skin, gentle, eczema.

Fact-checked Originality Schema / JSON-LD Byline Internal links

Approve & publish Decline your call

Autopilot Off

Flip one switch and it just runs. It writes, schedules, and publishes to your blog on its own. It never goes further than you told it to.

What it would run preview

Mon The gentle, fragrance-free skincare guide to your blog

Thu Sensitive-skin routine, step by step to your blog

Sun Eczema-safe ingredients to look for to your blog

Off until you turn it on and connect a blog. Even then it only ever publishes to your own blog.

Two honest modes, one switch you own

Approve every piece and stay in the driver's seat, or flip it on and let it run. Either way, it only ever does what you signed off on.

Autopilot rests on one promise: it only ever does what you've said yes to.

Leave it in Review and you sign off on everything, one tap at a time. Flip on autopilot and it writes, schedules, and ships to your blog on a rhythm you set. You can change your mind any day. The yes is always yours to give, and the switch stays in your hands.

Once it's live on your blog

This is the piece aimed at the early questions, the fragrance-free, gentle, sensitive-skin searches where Kindred has had the floor to itself. Published to your own blog, it's built to be the page every model can reach for.

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Google AI

It keeps watching. Visibility re-measured daily.

FIG 4.B · The page it wrote

A1

Byline A real author line, so the models trust where the answer came from.

A2

Your voice Written the way Aurelia talks. Gentle and plain, no sales hype.

A3

Internal links Tied to your related pages, the way AI answers get built.

Sensitive skin · Guide

The gentle, fragrance-free skincare guide

By the Aurelia team A1 Reviewed for accuracy · Updated Jul 2026

If you are just starting to look for skincare and your skin reacts to almost everything, start simple. Fragrance-free is the first thing to check on a label, because added fragrance is one of the most common triggers for sensitive and eczema-prone skin. A2

Aurelia is genuinely fragrance-free, so there is no masking scent hiding in the formula. That is the part most gentle routines get wrong. A4

Keep reading How to read a fragrance-free label A gentle routine for eczema-prone skin A3

Full article · ~1,180 words

{ } Article · JSON-LD A5 Fact-checked Original A6

A4

Fact-checked Every claim checked against what the LLMs actually read on this topic.

A5

Schema for citation JSON-LD markup so models can quote the page cleanly.

A6

Originality Checked for originality before it goes anywhere near your blog.

Ch. 05 · One agent

Talk to your agent from anywhere. It's still one conversation.

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Talk to your agent the way you'd talk to anyone on your team. Ask it anything in plain language, and it answers with what you need, right where you are. Last night you approved a guide, and it went live to your blog overnight. This morning it emailed you the brief. You replied from your inbox. It answered back. When you opened the app after lunch, the whole thread was already there. You can just talk to it, wherever you are. One agent, one conversation, whether that's your inbox, the app, or Slack. No exports, no “let me get back to you.”

Live overnight You said yes at 9:40. It was on your blog by 2:11.

FIG 5.A · ONE CONVERSATION · EVERY SURFACE

MentionOS · with you all day

Aurelia · the morning after the guide went live

App opens today · 1

Illustrative · Aurelia example

Visibility 34.2% ▼3.8 holding

Mentions 1,204 ▲73

Sentiment 87

The guide live

06:47 Your inbox

Email Two-way

From MentionOS agent@mentionos.ai

To you@aurelia.com

Subject Aurelia · morning brief

MentionOS 6:47 AM

The guide went live on your blog at 2:11. Visibility holds at 34.2% (−3.8). I’m watching the early-question scans tonight.

Y You you@aurelia.com Re: 8:12 AM

Which early questions are we still missing?

··· On Tue at 6:47 AM, MentionOS wrote:

MentionOS Re: 8:14 AM

The two Kindred still holds: fragrance-free for eczema, and gentle for sensitive skin. The guide goes after the sensitive-skin one, and Perplexity already picked it up. Eczema needs its own piece. I’m drafting it now.

Email · two-way · reply from your inbox, same thread as the app

10:30 Slack

Slack Two-way

aurelia-AEO-growth 3 members

MentionOS APP 10:30

Guide’s live and the scans run tonight. The eczema piece is drafted. It’s waiting on your OK.

Y

You 10:32

what’s waiting?

MentionOS APP 10:33

A gentle routine for eczema-prone skin. The other early question Kindred holds. Approve it in the app, or just reply here.

Slack · two-way · reply in the channel, it replies back

13:05 The app · open #1

In-app chat

Continued from email & Slack

MentionOS 13:05

Picking up the thread from this morning. Here’s the piece for the eczema question, ready when you are.

read · get_funnel_stages → Learn 11.5%

Draft · proposal

Draft · A gentle routine for eczema-prone skin

Approve Decline

nothing writes without your yes

In-app · one thread, nothing writes without your yes

two-way ×2 app open ×1 App opens today · 1 Illustrative · Aurelia example

Three channels, one conversation.

Every surface writes from the same verified read, so the email, the ping, and the app can never disagree. You opened the app once.

One agent. Every room you work in.

The agent that answers is the agent that runs the scans, reads the answers, and files the numbers. Wherever you pick the thread up, it already has them in hand. If the guide changes anything tonight, you'll hear it first, in whichever room you're in.

Ch. 06 · Our promise

Be one of our first, and we'll lock it in.

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Everything you just watched, the agent did for one brand: Aurelia. It found where it was losing, wrote the fix, shipped it overnight, and stayed on it across every surface. That wasn't a demo. It's a normal week. The only thing missing from the story is your brand's name.

FIG 6.A · WHAT THE AGENT HAS BEEN DOING

Aurelia · 28-day ledger

Four chapters of work · now pointed at you

Illustrative · Aurelia example

01

Ch. 02 · Visibility

Watches every model, every day.

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Google AI

Running

02

Ch. 03 · The read

Reads the result like a senior analyst and tells you what changed.

Read

03

Ch. 04 · Autopilot

Drafts and ships the fix on autopilot, to your own blog.

Shipped

04

Ch. 05 · One agent

One thread across the app, email and Slack. The yes still happens with you.

With you

Loop closed · Aurelia's 28-day ledger is current.

Now it's your turn

FIG 6.B · YOUR LEDGER, DAY 1

Your brand · Day 1

Aurelia's ledger is full. Yours is one line from starting.

Waiting on your domain

Your domain yourbrand.com See where you stand

Ch. 02 · Visibility

Will watch every model, every day.

Waiting

Ch. 03 · The read

Will read the result and tell you what changed.

Waiting

Ch. 04 · Autopilot

Will draft and ship the fix, to your own blog.

Waiting

Ch. 05 · One agent

Will keep one thread across app, email and Slack.

Waiting

Your ledger starts with one line, your domain.

What it's worth

What you're getting is a full-time AEO analyst, on every model, around the clock, whose whole job is keeping your brand in the answers. It's the kind of work agencies bill three, five, ten thousand a month for, or a hire you can't afford yet. It's $79.

The plan · monthly

$79/ month

The founder price, for as long as you stay.

Cancel anytime Annual option saves 2 months No sales call

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No card to see your result

What $79 gets you

Coverage across the models it tracks: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI.

Autopilot content: articles written, generated and published to your own blog on a schedule.

Guided fixes: the agent writes the exact snippet for robots, llms.txt or schema, and you drop it onto your site.

A free first look before you pay. A real scan of your site, no card. That first read runs on one model; full coverage across all four begins the day you join. Done in minutes.

Who this is for

SMB brands who know they need AEO but not where to start, and agencies who want to offer it to clients without building a team.

Ch. 07 · FAQs

Straight answers.

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No hedging, no fine print buried in a footer. Here are the questions people ask before they start, answered plainly, the way we’d answer them to your face.

F.01 Isn't this just SEO with a new name?

No. SEO optimises where you rank in Google's blue links. MentionOS optimises what the AI models actually say about you inside a written answer. A different game, different rules, and it ships the fixes, where other tools stop at advice.

F.02 Which models do you actually cover?

Four on every plan: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI, scanned daily against your competitor set. Claude is available as an add-on.

F.03 How is the free first look real?

It genuinely asks a live model, Perplexity, what it recommends in your category, and reports back what it actually said. That first look runs in minutes, before you pay a cent. The day you join, coverage opens up to all four models and the agent starts fixing what it finds.

F.04 What if AI never mentions me at all?

Often the best place to start. AI answers are still unsettled. On the same question, 40 to 60% of the sources the models cite change within a month, so no brand has a locked-in default yet. That open field is exactly what the agent goes to work on.

F.05 Will it change my website or store on its own?

No. Articles it writes in your voice publish to your own blog, and only once you switch autopilot on (it's off by default; approve each piece, or let it run and just review). Technical fixes like robots, llms.txt and schema, it writes the exact snippet for you to drop in. It never edits your store or product pages itself.

F.06 Why only $79?

It's the founder rate. You help us harden the agent while it's early, and in return you can keep the $79 monthly or $790 annual USD base rate for as long as you stay. Taxes or local-currency conversion may change the final amount shown by Stripe.

F.07 Can I cancel anytime?

You can stop future renewal at any time. Monthly billing renews monthly; the discounted annual option is prepaid and renews yearly, so cancellation leaves access running through the period already paid for. If you leave, the articles already published to your own blog stay yours.

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