Brand Mentions Service for the Sources AI Engines Read

We don't pay for placements and pass them off as editorial. Some lists only include paying vendors, and we'll tell you which ones. If you decide one is worth it, it should be labelled as sponsored, and we track it separately. Many editors will add a product on merit when someone gives them a good reason and accurate facts.

We ask real, active customers at the moments they're most likely to say yes, such as after onboarding or a renewal, and send them straight to your profile. We follow each review site's rules on incentives and never write or edit a review. It's slower than buying them, but the reviews stay up and the profile stays clean.

Not under fake accounts, ever. Brand-run sock puppets get spotted, banned and screenshotted, and the backlash ends up in the very threads AI engines cite. We find threads where your product answers the question, and someone from your team replies openly as the company. Where a subreddit bans vendor posts, we stay out.

Editor outreach depends on each publication's update schedule, which we don't control; some lists change often and some rarely. Review programs build gradually, as customers reach the right moments. Community presence takes longest, because trust in a thread is earned one reply at a time. We report progress monthly and read the full picture at day 90.

For AI answers, often yes. Engines read the text of a page, so a roundup that names and describes you can shape an answer with no link at all. Links still matter for Google and Bing rankings, so we ask for one where it's natural, but we don't pass on a good mention because it lacks one.

All of them draw on the public web, and review sites, roundups and community threads appear as sources across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot. Which sources carry the most weight differs by category and by engine, so we map yours before choosing a single target.

SearchAxe does, led by Amit Malvi, who built and led a 20-person link building team at Invideo AI. We write the pitches, handle editor replies and keep the source map current. Your team steps in only for review requests to customers and for community replies, since those have to come from you.

Quoted after a free consultation. Scope depends on how many cited sources you're missing from, whether you have customers ready to review, and how active your category's communities are. We send a plan and a quote together. Work starts once you approve both, measured against a baseline of where you're mentioned today.

For Wisemonk, citations across AI answer engines rose 414%, and pages cited went from 70 to 299. For Viggle AI, pages cited in AI answers went from 4 to 279. Mentions were one part of each engagement, alongside page and technical work, so we don't credit those figures to mentions alone.