Mentioned vs Scorpion: AI Visibility for Trade Contractors
The short version
Scorpion is a marketing operations platform. It handles lead gen funnels, reputation management, SMS/email campaigns, appointment scheduling. It's operational infrastructure for contractors.
Mentioned is an AI visibility audit. It measures whether your trade business gets recommended when homeowners ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Gemini for recommendations in your city. It's a measurement tool that identifies a specific revenue leak that Scorpion (and your SEO agency) don't see.
What Scorpion does well
Scorpion built a solid lead gen + operations platform. If you're a contractor without a structured lead funnel, or your current lead gen is broken, Scorpion gives you:
- Lead capture forms (web, chat, SMS)
- SMS/email follow-up sequences
- Online reputation management (review requests, responses)
- Appointment scheduling and reminders
- Basic analytics on lead source and close rate
Scorpion is a CRM-lite. It moves leads from discovery to booking. The assumption is: you already have leads coming in. Scorpion helps you close them.
Where Mentioned is different
Mentioned answers a specific question Scorpion never touches: Are homeowners finding you when they ask AI for recommendations?
Here's the problem it solves:
- ChatGPT and Perplexity pull from different data sources than Google. You can be #1 on Google Maps and invisible to AI engines. Both are driving lead volume. Scorpion sees Google leads. It doesn't see the AI leads you're missing.
- 87% of trade contractors we audit score under 20/100 on AI visibility. Most don't know. Their Scorpion dashboard doesn't tell them. Their SEO agency doesn't measure it.
- The fixes are mechanical. Schema deployment, citation submission, NAP normalization, training-data partner submission. Not ongoing recurring work. One-time spend that moves your score 30-50 points in 45-60 days.
- The payoff compounds. AI search traffic is growing 27% month over month. Every month you stay invisible is a month your competitors are capturing share.
Mentioned runs live queries against ChatGPT and Perplexity in your city, logs every business recommendation, and shows you where you rank. That's the data. What you do with it is your call.
Best for
| Use case | Scorpion fits | Mentioned fits |
|---|---|---|
| You have leads but can't close them | Yes | No |
| You need CRM + follow-up automation | Yes | No |
| You want reputation management | Yes | No |
| You're invisible on ChatGPT/Perplexity | No | Yes |
| You want to measure AI rank vs competitors | No | Yes |
| Pipeline is soft despite Google ranking | No | Yes |
| You want a fix playbook with ROI math | No | Yes |
How they actually work together
You use Mentioned to find where the leak is. Then you fix it. Then you use Scorpion to close the people who find you.
Example:
- Run audit on Mentioned. Score comes back as 12/100. You're ranking 5th or 6th in AI search. Competitors are taking the calls.
- Deploy fixes. Schema deployment, citation submissions, Reddit/forum mentions. 6-8 weeks of mechanical work.
- Score climbs to 47. Now you're in the top 3 AI recommendations for your city.
- Leads come in. ChatGPT and Perplexity start sending homeowners your way.
- Scorpion closes them. Inbound chat, SMS follow-up, booking, appointment reminders. Convert those new leads into jobs.
Scorpion is great at the last 50 yards. Mentioned finds the field. Without Mentioned, you're optimizing a pipeline that has an invisible leak. Without Scorpion, you close at 40% instead of 60%.
The honest take
Scorpion is focused on marketing ops. They assume leads are coming in. Their business model is helping you keep them organized and follow up faster.
The AI search problem is new. 2024-2025 new. ChatGPT and Perplexity are routing leads. Your SEO agency doesn't measure it. Your current lead source analytics don't show it. So it sits invisible until your pipeline starts feeling soft and you don't know why.
Mentioned was built to find that leak. That's it. One job, done well.
Next step
Run your free audit. Takes 90 seconds. No card, no upsell. You'll see your exact score, who's beating you, and what's worth fixing first. Then you can decide if closing this gap is worth the 6-8 week investment.
137 trade contractors audited. Median score 32/100. Top 5% over 79. The gap is real. The fixes are mechanical. The payoff compounds.
The facts
- 137 audits run (CC-BY-4.0 dataset, public)
- Median score 32/100 across all contractors
- 47-point gap between median (32) and top 5% (79)
- Tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini
- Free 90-second audit, no card required
- Founder cohort closes July 4 ($297/mo or $1,497 lifetime)
- Open methodology, public dataset published
See your Scorpion AI visibility score in
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Common questions about AI visibility for Scorpion contractors in
Google ranks pages. AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity name specific businesses in answers. A Scorpion contractor in can rank #1 on Google and still be invisible in ChatGPT, because the signals are different (schema, citations, structured data, training-data presence).
Most Scorpion contractors see meaningful score lift within 30-60 days of implementing the three core fixes: Google Business Profile completion, consistent industry directory listings, and schema markup. The 47-point gap between median (32) and top performers (79) is closeable.
Yes. Roughly 40% of homeowner searches now start in ChatGPT or Perplexity instead of Google. Even with strong Google rankings, you can be completely invisible in AI answers, which means losing calls you don't even know about.
Your AI visibility score across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Specific gap analysis against top performers in . Three highest-leverage fixes prioritized by impact. Takes 90 seconds, no card required.