A Mentioned AI report
The State of AEO · Q2 2026
A quarterly snapshot of how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini cite the brands buyers actually look up. Computed from the live Mentioned AI Index · 1 opted-in brands tracked daily.
Executive summary
- The average Mention Score across the Index is 2/100. A score of 100 means the engine cited the brand on every tracked prompt this morning. The honest read · most brands are barely visible to the major AI engines today, leaving a wide-open lane for operators who invest deliberately in AEO posture.
- 0 of 1 brands (0%) are in the "on track" band (score ≥ 70). 0 brands (0%) are mid-pack (40-69), and 1 (100%) are behind the curve (<40). The middle band is the operator opportunity · most mid-pack brands are 2-3 fixable gaps away from breaking 70.
- Mentioned AI leads the Index at 2/100. Run their public score page against your own to see the gap. Brands at the top of the leaderboard share a pattern: structured-data bundles published, comparison pages live, and an opted-in path for engines to find them at
/llms.txt. - The spread from top to bottom of the Index is 2 - 2 = 0 points. The score is computed identically for every brand on the same daily prompt cadence · so the spread reflects real, operator-driven differences in AEO investment, not measurement noise.
The ranking (1 brands)
Methodology
Every brand in the Index runs the same set of buyer-purchase prompts daily across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. The Mention Score is the share of those prompts where the engine cited the brand by name or domain. Higher means more visibility at the moment of buyer decision. The composite ranges 0-100. The δ vs yesterday column captures day-over-day movement.
The Index is opt-in · brands appear only after enabling their public Mention Score page from inside Mentioned AI. Comparison is honest by construction · every brand on the list runs the same prompt set against the same engines on the same daily cadence, scored by the same parser, computed by the same composite. No vendor pays to be ranked. No vendor pays to be removed.
The dataset will scale brand-by-brand as more workspaces opt in to public sharing. This report is the live read of the dataset on the day you load the page · the rankings shift as the tracker runs each morning at 06:00 UTC. Quarterly editions are intended for citation in press writeups, podcast research, and operator pitch decks.
Live data and per-brand breakdowns at anthonyventurelabs.com/mentioned/aeo-index. Methodology and source open at anthonyventurelabs.com/mentioned.
For press and analysts
The Index is free to cite. Each brand entry links to a public score page that re-renders on demand from live data, so writeups stay accurate over time without journalists chasing updates. For interview requests, methodology questions, or early access to next quarter's findings, contact hello@anthonyventurelabs.com.
For operators who want to be on the Index in the next edition · sign up at anthonyventurelabs.com/mentioned, add your brand, enable the public score page from Settings. The brand appears on the live Index within an hour and on the next quarterly report by default.