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AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity) now influence where homeowners find local service contractors. Mentioned measures whether your business gets named on AI. A free, 20-second audit that scores operator visibility on AI from 0-100. Methodology v2026.06.1.
Contractors audited across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing. Live data.
87% of contractors are invisible to AI. Median sits well below the top quartile.
Top 6% of audited operators. Named on most AI queries across most engines.
Gap from median (32) to top performers. Measureable, improvable, real.
AI is the new search frontier. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude now handle 5-15% of intent-based local service queries depending on the trade. Operators have no visibility into whether AI names them. Mentioned closes that gap.
For operators: Free audit shows whether AI search names you vs. your competitors. No paywall. Transparency first.
For the industry: Open dataset + open methodology sets a standard for how AI visibility should be measured.
Founder & Operator, Mentioned
Nick is a growth operator and AI systems builder. He spent 3 years building back-office AI for a $3M service business, discovering that AI search was a complete blind spot for operators. Mentioned emerged from that gap. Nick works hands-on with contractors, not as a vendor.
He does not accept payment to artificially inflate scores. Operators pay to improve their score through legitimate AI search optimization only. The audit stays independent regardless of customer status.
The score measures how often a business is named across a fixed set of 30 real-homeowner-intent prompts on two AI engines (ChatGPT gpt-4o-mini, Perplexity sonar). Raw count normalized to 0-100. No black box. No weighting. No engagement metrics. Reproducible within +/- 3 points. Full specification at /methodology.
Name-matching is deterministic: exact business name (case-insensitive, punctuation-flexible) or clear unambiguous variant. Logged per query so operators can audit the audit. Queries rotate by trade and city and cover 5 intent categories: brand discovery, service-specific, review-driven, urgency-driven, and broad recommendation.
Industry benchmark: Download benchmark.csv (CC-BY-4.0)
137+ contractor audits, fully anonymized. City, trade, score, audited timestamp. Reusable dataset for research, competitor analysis, and market analysis. No restrictions beyond attribution.
Methodology: Full specification published with exact queries, engines, scoring math, bracket definitions, and versioning strategy.
"87% of trade contractors are invisible to AI search. Mentioned measures that gap in 20 seconds."— Nick Beyer, Founder
"The score is reproducible, open-source, and cannot be artificially inflated. Operators pay to improve their score through real work, not to game the audit."— Nick Beyer, Founder
Nick Beyer — Founder & Operator, Mentioned. Available for interviews, quotes, and technical deep dives on AI search visibility.
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Nick spent 3 years building AI automation systems for a $3M+ service business. During that time, he realized no one was measuring whether AI search actually names contractors. ChatGPT traffic to service businesses was rising but invisible. Perplexity citations were inconsistent. Nobody had a standard way to track it.
That gap is Mentioned. It started as an internal tool to measure whether one contractor was visible on AI, then scaled to 137+ audits across 4 trades in 3 weeks. The methodology went open-source because credibility demands transparency.
Live site: mentionedinai.com
Free audit: Run a 20-second sample audit
Benchmark leaderboard: Top contractors by score (live)
Methodology: Full technical specification
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Last updated: 2026-05-29. Embargo lifts June 4 2026 9am ET.