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Pitch the pages that cite your rivals

Find the pages an AI learned to cite a competitor from — and get your brand into them.

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What this play does

When a model cites a competitor and not you, it learned that citation from a specific page — a review, a comparison, a resource list. Find it, get in front of the person who owns it, and you close the gap at the source.

The loop

  1. 1

    MentionOwl surfaces the exact URLs where a rival is cited and you are not.

  2. 2

    Your agent scrapes each page for the angle and the editorial contact.

  3. 3

    It enriches the contact and drafts a pitch written around that specific article.

  4. 4

    Outreach goes out through your own email or CRM — logged, not blasted.

What you get

  • A ranked list of citation-gap pages worth pitching
  • A tailored draft per page, not a mass template
  • The whole loop repeatable each month

The owl’s part

The MentionOwl data and MCP tools this play leans on.

CitationsCompetitorsMCP: get_site_citations

Example agent prompt

Paste this into any agent with the MentionOwl MCP connected. The owl answers for the MentionOwl parts; your agent handles the rest.

MentionOwl MCP connected

Pull the citation report for the last 30 days. Find every URL where our top 3 competitors are cited but our brand is not. For each, scrape the page for the author, an editorial contact, and the section a competitor appears in, then draft a personalised outreach email proposing we're added — with a hook specific to that article.

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