AI SEO software

The work falls into two channels. The first is link building. An AI is given a business domain and a set of competitors. It searches the web for specific pages that link to those competitors but not to the given business. It also looks for resource pages, listicles, and directories in that niche. For each page it finds, the software judges whether the business could honestly be added. If it passes, the tool drafts the email, form submission, or reply needed to ask for the link. The email is sent from the user's own connected mailbox, so replies land in their inbox.

The second channel is answer engine tracking. The user writes the questions their potential customers actually ask, like 'best CRM for small agencies' or 'how to clean a coffee grinder'. The software runs each question on a schedule against the AI engines on the user's plan, such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. It records the full answer text, the websites it cited, the brands it named, and the search queries the model used internally. From these records, it computes visibility, share of voice, and average position for the business and its competitors.

A critical distinction is that these tools measure only the user's own tracked prompts. They do not have access to a global panel of conversations. They cannot see what other people are typing into ChatGPT, and they do not sell estimates of prompt volume. The measurement is the shape of the answer returned when the software asks the question, recorded daily starting from the day the prompt is added. There is no historical backfill.

Pricing follows a standard SaaS ladder. Entry-level plans typically start between $50 and $100 per month. These plans often limit the number of domains you can track, the number of link opportunities you can see per month, or the AI engines you can query. Mid-tier plans range from $200 to $500 per month and raise those limits. Enterprise plans are custom-quoted, with prices that reflect dedicated support, higher volume allowances, and sometimes additional data sources.

Many vendors advertise an annual term that is cheaper than paying month-to-month. A common pattern is to show only the annual price divided by twelve, making the monthly cost appear lower until you reach the checkout. Mentionry is an AI marketing platform. It records what the answer engines say about your brand, finds where you could appear next, and gives your team an AI Marketer that acts with approval. Both monthly and annual billing are available.

A separate pricing model exists for link building services that are not software. These services often sell on a per-placement basis, committing to deliver a specific number of links for a fixed fee. This is a different offering from the software that finds opportunities and drafts pitches.

The link finding engine does not rely on a static database of websites. It performs fresh searches based on the competitors you provide. It looks for pages with specific link patterns, judges the relevance of each page to your business, and assesses the likelihood of a successful pitch. Every opportunity is evaluated individually by a model that can reject it, stating that the business cannot honestly be added to that page.

For outreach, the software requires one connection: your email mailbox. This is a keyless connector, meaning you do not provide API keys for search or for the AI models. The drafted emails are populated into your connected mailbox and sent using your domain and your sending reputation. The software reads the reply state live from your mailbox to track conversations. Drafts themselves are temporary and live in your browser.

After a pitch is sent, the software verifies the outcome. It checks the target page to see if a link appeared, what the anchor text is, and whether the link is still live and followed. A link that is later removed or changed to a nofollow attribute is reported as a change. This verification is how the tool reports what was earned, not just how many emails were sent.

The primary risk in automated link building is quality control. A tool that merely aggregates lists of websites can lead to spammy, irrelevant pitches that damage your sender reputation. Mentionry addresses this by having a judging layer that can say no, and by excluding entire categories of opportunities known to be low-quality, such as paid placements.

Buying links that pass ranking signals violates Google's link spam policy. The penalty is applied to the site receiving the links, not the vendor selling them. Therefore, any tool or service that promises to place or deliver links carries this inherent risk. Mentionry does not place links. It sends pitches from your account. Whether a link then appears is the publisher's decision.

For answer engine tracking, the main limitation is scope. The software only records answers to the specific prompts you set up. It does not monitor all possible questions about your industry. A day when the AI engine fails to return a result is shown as a gap in the data, not as zero visibility. A brand that is never mentioned in any recorded answer has no average position. Furthermore, the set of engines you can track depends on your plan. Some engines, like Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek, are listed on higher plans but are not yet operational in the system.

Look for concrete, checkable claims. A provider should be able to explain, without jargon, where their data comes from. For link finding, ask if they use a static database or perform live searches. For answer tracking, ask if they measure a global panel or just your prompts. Be skeptical of vendors that refuse to disclose their pricing or that only show an annual price.

Examine what the tool does not do. Honest providers clearly state the boundaries of their automation. Mentionry, for example, does not pull in queries from platforms like HARO, Source of Sources, or Connectively automatically. You can paste a query from those services into the tool to be judged and drafted, but the software does not log into those platforms for you. This is a stated limitation, not a hidden failure.

Test the quality of the automation. In a measured run for one domain, Mentionry's engine read 110 potential opportunities, judged 40 of them, and kept 14 as viable for a pitch. The value is in the filtering, not in a large raw number. For drafting, see if the tool can handle a reply asking for payment for a link. A robust system will decline and explain why, protecting you from policy violations.

Mentionry combines the two channels, link finding and answer engine tracking, in one product. The link engine is designed to exclude paid placements and opportunities where a business cannot honestly be featured. The drafting model refuses to write pitches for such opportunities. The outreach is fully integrated with your email, sending from your address and tracking replies in your own threads.

The answer tracking is systematic and archival. It does not just provide a score. It records the full answer text, citations, and named entities from each run, every day. This creates a verifiable record of how AI answer engines represent your business over time. The channel that focuses on Google AI Overviews specifically identifies pages that are cited, which then become targets for link building pitches.

Nothing here is promised. The software does not guarantee links, rankings, or traffic. It finds specific places a business can get a backlink and writes the pitch to ask for it. It tracks the business's visibility in the AI answers it is asked to monitor. The pricing is published and straightforward, with no hidden per-placement fees. The one required connection is your own mailbox, giving you full control over your outreach and its reputation.