Mentioned
Mentioned scans published blog posts to spot the people and companies named in them, finds their contact details, then sends pre-written email sequences on autopilot. A web app aimed at link building and relationship outreach.
What is Mentioned?
Mentioned is a web application that turns the names dropped into a blog post into outreach. Instead of combing through a freshly published article to work out who was cited, tracking down each person's email address and writing to them one by one, the tool takes on all three jobs.
The workflow runs in three steps. First, the scan: once an article goes live, Mentioned reads it automatically and picks out the people and companies named in it. Second, the confirmation: the tool looks up contact details for each name it found, and the user checks that the right people have been identified before anything is sent. Third, the campaign: pre-composed email sequences go out on autopilot, with campaign analytics and incoming replies gathered in the dashboard.
The case the vendor makes rests on six claims set out on the home page. The approach is simple yet effective; it removes the manual work of finding contact information and writing individual messages; it builds relationships with new connections; it spreads brand awareness, on the argument that the more people know a company the likelier a referral becomes; it earns backlinks, since someone who has been mentioned is more inclined to share the article or reference it in their own content; and it saves hours.
What the product does not offer deserves stating just as plainly. There is no API, no mobile application and no browser extension: access runs through the web app at app.mentioned.ai, and signing in is possible only with a Google account. The three integration cards shown on the home page lead to pages that do not exist, so no third-party connection can be confirmed. Pricing starts at 49 USD per month and there is no free tier.
The state of the product is part of the picture. The home page still carries a Launching soon! badge and two waitlist forms, several sections remain filled with the placeholder text of the Webflow template the site was built from, and the linked blog no longer responds, yet the login application answers normally and the pricing page is live. The domain was registered in November 2022.
What it does
- Scan every newly published blog post for the names it contains
- Identify the people and the companies cited in that content
- Look up contact details for each person or company found
- Confirm the contact list before a single email leaves
- Send pre-composed email sequences automatically
- Track campaign statistics from the dashboard
- Read incoming replies without leaving the application
When to use Mentioned / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Mentioned is the right fit.
When to use Mentioned
- New blogs and small businesses that publish regularly and name people or brands in their articles
- Larger blogs and content agencies running outreach at volume across several publications
- PR and communications teams who want everyone they write about to hear it from them first
- Growth and SEO marketers chasing backlinks and referral traffic from earned mentions
- Solo founders and freelance writers with no time to hunt down contact details by hand
When not to use Mentioned
- Teams that need an API or any programmatic access, as none is documented
- Anyone who requires verified third-party integrations, since the ones displayed lead to dead pages
- Users unwilling to sign in with a Google account, the only authentication method offered
- Bloggers on a zero budget: the cheapest plan is 49 USD per month with no free tier
- Buyers who need a named legal entity, a postal address and a standalone DPA before signing anything
How to use Mentioned
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account on the web application at app.mentioned.ai
- Sign in with a Google account, the only authentication route offered
- Alternatively, leave an email address in one of the waitlist forms on the public site for early access
- Publish a blog post as usual on your own site
- Let Mentioned scan the new article automatically for people and companies cited
- Review the contacts the tool has identified and the contact details it has found
- Confirm that these are the right people, then start the campaign
- Let the pre-composed email sequences go out on autopilot
- Follow campaign statistics and read replies from the dashboard
- For a need the two published tiers do not cover, write to the address given on the pricing page
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Automates a chore that is otherwise entirely manual: spotting mentions, finding addresses, writing and sending
- Keeps a human confirmation step, so nothing goes out until the contact list has been approved
- Unlimited post scans and unlimited emails on both plans; only the contact quota is capped
- Public, readable pricing with no mandatory sales call
- A detailed GDPR clause in the terms, unusual at this size: processor and controller roles, audit right, export and deletion
- Explicit, quantified retention rules, including fourteen days for backups and three months of inactivity
- Written commitment never to sell or rent user information to a third party
Cons
- The marketing site is visibly unfinished: integrations, use cases, testimonials and resource centre are still template placeholder text
- A Launching soon badge and waitlist forms are still displayed although the domain dates from November 2022
- The official blog, linked from every page, no longer responds, and the advertised integration pages return 404
- No free plan and no advertised trial: the entry point is 49 USD per month
- Sign-in is possible only through a Google account, with no alternative
- No legal entity, postal address or company number is published anywhere on the site, and there is a single generic contact address
- No API, no mobile app, no documentation and no help centre
Pricing & Plans
Mentioned does not offer a permanent free plan, and no free trial is advertised on the pricing page. The lowest paid entry point is the Standard plan at 49.00 USD per month; the Advanced plan is 99.00 USD per month. Both are shown as monthly subscriptions in US dollars. A custom package is available on request, at a price that is not published.
- unlimited blog post scans
- up to 100 contacts/mentions
- unlimited emails
- unlimited blog post scans
- up to 250 contacts/mentions
- unlimited emails
- Custom package — price not published — designed on request for needs the two listed tiers do not cover
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Mentioned handles your data.
GDPR overview
The GDPR is addressed head-on rather than in passing. Clause 11 of the terms names Mentioned as data processor and the customer as data controller, then commits the vendor to processing data only for the service or the law, imposing a duty of confidence on anyone with access, applying appropriate technical and organisational security measures, assisting with data subject rights, breach notification and impact assessments, informing the customer if asked to do something infringing, and accepting its own direct liability. Customers may audit through an independent external auditor's report no older than eighteen months, or through their own inspection, provided the audit fee is paid in full and in advance. Special-category data is banned from the platform. What is missing is equally concrete: no Article 27 representative, no named DPO, no dedicated privacy address, no published subprocessor list and no effective date on either document.
Who owns the data?
The terms cast Mentioned as the data processor and the customer as the data controller, so ownership of and responsibility for the personal data pushed through the service stay with the customer. Mentioned undertakes to process that data only to deliver the service or to satisfy the law, to bind anyone with access to a duty of confidence, and to provide mechanisms for downloading all personal data at any time, deleting a single data subject, or deleting everything at the end of the contract. Separately, users grant Mentioned a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence to copy, distribute, transmit, display and reformat their content, for the purpose of running the service.
Reuse rights
Content that users submit or create remains theirs, and the terms carve out an explicit right to download it as part of normal use, outside the general ban on downloading, converting, crawling or reverse-engineering the service. Everything Mentioned publishes itself, from text and graphics to logos, page layout and underlying code, belongs to the vendor and may not be reproduced, copied, distributed or stored without written permission, save where the exceptions of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 apply. Users warrant that they hold the rights to whatever they submit and must keep GDPR special-category data off the platform. Account data also feeds product news, alerts, reminders and newsletters, each carrying a one-click unsubscribe link, and the vendor states it will never sell or rent user information to a third party.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The privacy policy states that Mentioned and its databases operate within the Digital Ocean platform, on computers housed in secure data centres with heavily restricted access and several layers of protection including firewalls and passwords. That is the extent of the disclosure: no hosting country is named, no region is committed to and no jurisdiction is stated for storage. The terms add that appropriate technical and organisational measures are taken against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised access or disclosure, and that the customer authorises Mentioned to appoint further subprocessors as it sees fit, without any list of those subprocessors being published. Readers who need a contractual hosting location, an EU data residency guarantee or a subprocessor register will not find one on the site and would have to ask. A network lookup places the site's server in London, but that is an observation made from outside, not a commitment given by the vendor.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Mentioned.
- The site still advertises Launching soon and collects waitlist addresses although the domain dates from 2022: check the product is genuinely live before paying
- The customer sends emails to people who never asked for them, and the terms make the customer the data controller, so the compliance burden under GDPR, ePrivacy or CAN-SPAM lands on the user
- The terms forbid unsolicited mass communication while the product sells automated sending: drawing that line is left entirely to the user
- Testimonials signed James Hudson, Elena Summers, Matt Smith and Stuart Newman are template demonstration content, not real customers, and should not be read as social proof
- No legal entity, postal address or company number is published anywhere, and a single generic email is the only contact channel
- A GDPR audit is contractually possible but billed to the customer and payable in advance, and there is no refund on cancellation
- Neither the privacy policy nor the terms carry an effective date, so there is no way to tell how old these commitments are
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install and no code to write: Mentioned is a web application, and opening an account takes a single click through a Google login, the only sign-in method offered. Scanning is triggered automatically when an article is published, and the only manual step before a campaign goes out is confirming the list of contacts found. The caveat is documentation rather than difficulty: there is no help centre, no API reference and no public guide explaining how a blog is connected to the tool in the first place.
Deployment
Behind Mentioned
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
What does Mentioned actually do?
Do emails go out without my approval?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
How do I sign in?
Is there an API, a mobile app or an integration with my CMS?
Where is my data hosted and how long is it kept?
Is the product actually available today?
Should you pick Mentioned?
Mentioned rests on a good, narrow idea: every name you drop into an article is a relationship you have not yet started, and turning that into a notification email is a chore worth automating. The three-step workflow of scan, confirm, campaign is sensible, and the confirmation step in particular keeps a human in the loop where many outreach tools do not. The terms are more thorough than the size of the product would suggest, with a full GDPR clause, quantified retention rules and a plain commitment never to sell customer data.
The reservations are about the state of the thing rather than the concept. The public site has not been finished: entire sections still carry the placeholder text of the template it was built from, the testimonials are demonstration content rather than customers, the advertised integrations lead to missing pages and the official blog no longer responds. A Launching soon! badge and two waitlist forms still greet visitors, on a domain registered in November 2022. Against that, the login application answers, pricing is published and the subscription starts at 49 USD per month with no free plan and no advertised trial, so a first commitment is made largely blind.
Transparency is the other gap. No legal entity, no postal address, no company number and a single generic email address make it hard to know who is on the other end of the contract. Anyone considering it should also weigh the compliance question the tool hands over: the emails go to third parties who did not ask for them, and the terms place the customer in the role of data controller. Promising in principle, and worth a look for content teams already doing this by hand, but verify that the product is live and supported before paying.
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