From Small Business Owners Like You

Real questions. Straight answers.

These are the questions we hear most from owners who are curious about AI visibility but aren’t sure it applies to them — answered as straight as we can.

Everything owners ask before they run a scan

No — and that’s exactly why AIMention exists. Most AI visibility tools are built for enterprise brands with dedicated analysts and five-figure budgets. AIMention was designed from the ground up for the business owner who’s wearing ten hats and doesn’t have time or money to wade through a 40-page report. You get a clear score, plain-English recommendations, and a 60-day action plan you can actually use.

Googling yourself tells you how you rank on Google. That’s one piece of the puzzle. But AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude pull information from a totally different set of signals — structured data, factual clarity, trusted sources, and more. AIMention checks all of those, and even queries those AI tools live to show you exactly how you’re being described (or not described) right now.

Your score is free — no credit card. You enter your website and email, and in about two minutes you see your overall AI Visibility Score, your letter grade, and how many gaps we found. The full report is a one-time $30: the six-dimension score breakdown, a prioritized Action Checklist, a 60-day roadmap, and the AI Presence Scan across four platforms. No subscription either way.

Go ahead and try it — it’s actually a good exercise. But what you’ll get is a one-time response with no scoring, no context on why you appear (or don’t), and no roadmap for fixing anything. AIMention gives you a scored breakdown across six dimensions, tells you where the gaps are, and lays out a prioritized checklist so you know exactly what to tackle first.

SEO tools optimize for search engines. AIMention optimizes for AI engines — and those are increasingly where your potential customers are starting their search. Someone asking ChatGPT “who’s the best HVAC contractor in my area?” isn’t typing into Google. If your business isn’t visible to AI, you’re invisible to that customer. AIMention helps you fix that.

Social media is great for staying in front of people who already know you. But when someone who’s never heard of you opens ChatGPT or Perplexity and asks for a recommendation in your area — your Facebook page isn’t what they’re seeing. AI assistants pull from an entirely different set of sources: your website structure, what’s written about you across the web, how clearly your business information is organized online. AIMention checks all of that, not just your social presence.

That’s one of the most common things we hear — and it’s exactly why AIMention exists. You don’t need to understand how AI works to benefit from this. AIMention does the scanning, gives you a plain-English score, and tells you the two or three things most worth fixing first. One report, one clear starting point. That’s it.

Not even a little. You enter your website URL, and your free score appears in about two minutes. If you buy the full report, it’s delivered to your inbox — no setup, no subscriptions, no dashboard to learn. The recommendations are written in plain English. If you can read an email, you can act on an AIMention report.

You shouldn’t have to. AIMention was built for exactly that reality. You enter your URL, and a couple of minutes later you know where you stand — no meetings, no onboarding calls, no learning curve. Check your AI visibility once, hand the action list off to someone or bookmark it for a slow week, then get back to running your business.

It’s actually the opposite — it means there’s real opportunity. A low score means AI tools aren’t confidently recommending your business yet, but it also means your competitors probably have the same problem. The businesses that act on this now are the ones that are going to own those AI recommendations when it matters. Think of it less like a report card and more like a head start.

Then you get your money back. If your report doesn’t show you anything worth fixing, email charlie@aimention.co and we’ll refund your $30 — no forms, no hoops. We can make that promise because the report is built from what we actually detect on your site, not generic advice.

A real person answers the email.

Charlie Riske, founder of AIMention

Charlie Riske

AIMention is built and run by one person — me — from the Chicago suburbs, after 19+ years working in digital media. It exists because local business owners kept asking the same question: “does any of this AI stuff actually affect me?” The honest answer is yes, and there was no simple way to check.

If you have a question the FAQ doesn’t cover, email charlie@aimention.co. You’ll get a reply from me, not a ticket queue.

If your report doesn’t show you anything worth fixing, you get your money back.

Email charlie@aimention.co and we’ll refund your $30. No forms, no hoops, no hard feelings.

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