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When someone asks ChatGPT for the best plumber in their town, it names a few businesses and leaves out the rest. MentionMachine tells you which side of that line you are on. It checks whether AI engines can read your site, asks five of them the questions your customers type, records what each one said about you word for word, and writes the files that change the answer.
It runs at mentionmachine.ai. The first check is free and needs no account. This page is the tour.
| Engine | What is asked | What comes back |
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| ChatGPT | The buying questions for your trade and your towns: who is best, who is near, what it costs, whether you are any good. You can add your own. | One verdict for every question and engine: Absent, Named, Recommended or Cited. Behind each verdict, the full answer, the model that gave it, the date and the sources it used. |
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| Google AI Overviews |
An engine that gave no answer is shown as no answer, not as a nought. A call that failed is marked as failed and left out of the score. Nothing is rounded up to look better. How the score is calculated is public.
- Check the site. A free scan reads your site the way an AI crawler does and lists what stops it: blocked crawlers, missing business details, pages with no clear answer.
- Ask the engines. A full scan puts your customers' questions to all five engines and records every answer.
- See where you stand. How often you appear, who is named in your place, and which pages the engines quoted.
- Fix it. The Fix Pack is a set of files written from your own pages, each with where it goes. Paste them in, scan again, and the history shows what moved.
About twenty seconds, no card, no account. Type a domain and get a scorecard: one score for how well the site is set up for AI to read, the jobs worth doing in order, and what is already working. Each job opens to plain words about what is wrong and, where a file fixes it, the file.
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| The home page. The demo on the right runs on labelled example data. | The scorecard: a score, what it means, and the jobs in order. | A job opened. The file is written for this site and ready to copy. |
The free scan and the free tools →
Every answer, word for word. The Answers screen is a grid: your questions down the side, the five engines across the top, a verdict in every cell. Tap a cell and read exactly what that engine told the customer, which model said it, when, and the sources it leaned on.
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| The grid. Darker cells are stronger results; dotted cells had no answer to judge. | One answer opened: the engine's own words, and where it got them. |
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| The overview: one score, how often you appeared, and what to do first. | Competitors: who the engines name when they do not name you. |
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| Citations: the pages an engine read before it answered. | History: scan again after a change and see what moved. |
The answers, the rivals and the sources →
The exact changes, written for your site. Finding the problem is half the job. The Fix Pack is the other half: files generated from your own pages, each one with a plain note on what it does and where it goes. Copy it, email it to your developer, or download the lot. A check your site already passes hands over no file.
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| The plan ranks every job by what it could be worth to the score. | Each file says where it goes and what it changes. | Slots in capitals are yours to fill; nothing is invented for you. |
Would you sooner not touch the site yourself? There is a done-for-you service.
Three small tools with no account and no AI model behind them. Each does one job on your site and gives you a file or an answer.
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| llms.txt generator. A guide to your site for AI engines. | AI crawler checker. Which AI crawlers your site lets in. | LocalBusiness schema. Structured data from facts you type. |
Knowing what to paste is no use if you cannot find where it goes. The guides walk through each change on the platform your site is built on, and the docs explain every part of a scan and a score.
- The free scan is free and needs no account.
- The full product is a licence with a one-time payment.
- You get the scans, the answers, the plan and the Fix Pack for your site.
What a licence includes, and what it costs, is on the pricing page.
Is this the same as SEO? It overlaps. Search engines rank pages; AI engines write an answer and name a few businesses in it. A site can rank well and still be left out of the answer, usually because the engine could not read it or could not tell what the business does.
Do you ask the real engines? Yes. Each question goes to each engine, and the answer you read is the one that came back. Every result is labelled with how it was asked, because an engine's own app can answer differently from its API.
Will the fixes work on my site builder? The files are plain text and standard structured data, so they go anywhere you can edit a page's code. The guides cover the common platforms step by step.
What if an engine gives a different answer tomorrow? It will, sometimes. That is why every scan is kept as it was, dated, and never recalculated, and why the history compares one scan with the next.
More answers in the docs, and a form a real person reads at mentionmachine.ai/contact.
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A DC Black product, built by David Black.
© 2026 David Black. MentionMachine is commercial software. The dashboard on this page belongs to a demo business, Gleam Detailing, and it and every rival named beside it are made up. The scorecard is a real free scan of one of my own sites. The home page demo runs on example data and says so.