AI Answer Visibility

This channel reads Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode answers. You write the questions your buyers actually ask. Mentionry runs each question on a schedule, records the answer text, and extracts the web pages Google's model cited. It also notes which brands, including your competitors, were named in the answer. Visibility, share of voice, and average position are computed from these daily records.

The measurement is of your own tracked prompts. Mentionry asks the engines on your plan the questions you chose and records what comes back. It cannot see what other people type into ChatGPT or Perplexity, and it does not sell estimates of global prompt volume. Recording starts the day a prompt is added. There is no historical backfill, because the answer text and its citations only exist if they were captured at the time.

When Google's AI answers a buying question, it reads a handful of web pages to compose its response. Being one of those cited pages is a new form of visibility. It is not a traditional search ranking, but it is a direct referral of authority from the answer to your site. A citation in an AI Overview can drive qualified traffic and signal relevance to Google's systems.

This channel exists because a citation is also a signal about your existing content. If the AI is reading a page to answer a question, that page is likely a good resource. Knowing which pages Google's AI considers authoritative for your niche gives you a list of potential partners for collaboration or outreach. The goal is not just to measure a score, but to identify concrete tasks, like pitching the author of a cited article for a link or a partnership.

You add your domain and the questions you want tracked. Mentionry runs these prompts daily on the AI answer engines included in your plan. For each run, it captures the full answer text. It then parses this text to identify every URL cited as a source and every brand name mentioned. This data is stored and used to generate reports.

The reports show you trends in how often you are mentioned versus competitors, and your average position within answers. More importantly, they list every unique page that was cited by the AI in answering your questions. These cited pages are presented as opportunities in your Mentionry dashboard, alongside opportunities from other channels like backlink gaps and resource pages.

Each opportunity includes context, like which of your tracked questions led to the citation and what the AI said. You can then use Mentionry's drafting tools to write a pitch to the site owner, suggesting a collaboration or a link. The email is sent from your own connected mailbox, using your domain and reputation.

This channel currently reads Google's AI Overviews and Google's AI Mode. These are the two primary surfaces where Google provides AI-generated answers to search queries. The engines that can run today are listed in your plan details, but this specific channel is focused on Google's properties.

The channel is scoped by naming the other channel, not by denying the product. 'Track answer engines' is the separate Mentionry channel that runs your prompts against ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and the two Google surfaces on a schedule. This 'AI answer visibility' channel reads Google only and reports pages you can pitch. It does not track ChatGPT or Perplexity visibility, as that is the domain of the other channel.

The system records what is present. If an engine fails to return an answer on a given day, that is reported as a gap in the chart. A brand that is never mentioned simply has no average position data; it is not assigned a default or best position. The integrity of the data depends on successful daily runs.

This channel does not track ChatGPT, Perplexity, or other non-Google AI answer engines. That is a separate capability within Mentionry. Do not expect to see visibility reports for those platforms here.

It does not place, publish, or guarantee links. Mentionry helps you identify opportunities and draft pitches sent from your own email. Whether a link or citation appears is the decision of the site owner you contact. The product reports on links verified after the fact, but the act of sending a pitch is distinct from the act of securing a placement.

It does not provide historical data before you started tracking a prompt. There is no backfill. The value is in ongoing monitoring, not in reconstructing past performance.

It does not involve registries, datasets, broken link building, or relationship inventory. It is a focused tool for monitoring AI answer citations and converting them into outreach tasks.

Consider your business's dependence on search visibility and whether your customers ask complex, commercial questions that trigger AI Overviews. If you operate in a niche where buyers research online before purchasing, your presence in these answers matters. This tool is for businesses that see the shift towards AI answers and want a systematic way to track and act on it.

Compare it to doing the work manually. You could search for your own questions every day, screenshot the results, and manually extract cited URLs. This channel automates that collection and aggregation, saving time and ensuring you miss nothing. It also integrates the cited pages directly into your outreach workflow.

Evaluate it against alternatives. For context, Featured.com offers an AI answer visibility channel as part of its PR co-pilot. Its published price starts at zero for a daily credit allowance, with paid plans from $29 to $79 per month billed annually. It covers media opportunities like journalist requests and podcast bookings, but it does not cover backlink gap analysis or link prospecting. If your goal is exclusively to track AI answers and pitch for media coverage, Featured.com is a capable and inexpensive option. If you also need to find and pitch for the backlinks your competitors already have, that half of the problem is not addressed by their product, despite claims on their homepage.

Mentionry sends pitches, but it never places links. It cannot put a link on somebody else's page, and it will not pay for one. The outreach is drafted and sent from your own connected mailbox. This means you control the relationship, the messaging, and the sending reputation. Replies land in your email thread.

Every opportunity is judged individually. The model that evaluates openings can refuse, stating that a business cannot honestly answer a particular query. The drafting system also refuses to engage with paid placement requests, explaining why buying links violates search engine policies. This design aims to keep outreach ethical and sustainable.

Results are verified. After a pitch is sent, Mentionry checks back to see if a link appeared, on which page, with what anchor text, and whether it remains. A link that is later removed or changed to a nofollow attribute is reported as a change. This shows what was earned, not just what was attempted.

The channel uses keyless connectors. You do not need to provide API keys or connect external accounts to get opportunities. The only required connection is your own mailbox for sending outreach.

It measures based on real, scheduled runs. There are no synthetic scores or estimates. The data you see is what the engines returned when your prompts were executed.

A page that could not be opened during verification is reported as unchecked, not as unlinked. This prevents false negatives from temporary technical issues.

The scope is firmly defined. This is a service page for one shipped channel. It does not imply capabilities in other areas like HARO automation. While you can paste a HARO query into Mentionry to be judged and drafted, the system does not automatically pull in queries from helpareporter.com, Source of Sources, or Connectively, as it does not read mailboxes or log into those platforms.