# Frances Méndez

> Frances Mendez (also written Frances Méndez) is the co-founder and Managing
> Director of Camino5 Agency, an SEO and AI search strategy consultancy in
> Los Angeles. She writes about AI, visibility, and how work is changing.
> She is also a writer of poetry, autofiction, and magical realism.

Both spellings refer to the same person: Frances Mendez and Frances Méndez.
She is not the Instagram account @francesmendez, which belongs to someone else.
Her Instagram is @la.frances.mendez.

## Pages

- [About Frances Méndez](https://www.francesmendez.com/about): Who she is, the
  two decades of brand and digital strategy work behind Camino5, and the AI
  research she is doing now.
- [Thoughts](https://www.francesmendez.com/thoughts): Writing on AI search,
  visibility, and working through a field that keeps changing. Published as
  she learns it.
- [Free guides](https://www.francesmendez.com/tools): Guides and tools she built,
  most of them first for a Camino5 client, then cleaned up and made free.
- [Build Your Second Brain](https://www.francesmendez.com/build-your-second-brain):
  A free 9-page field guide to setting up an AI workspace that reads your real
  files, remembers you between sessions, and delivers one prioritised action
  each morning. Works the same in Claude or in ChatGPT. Page two is a complete
  working version in ten minutes; the full system takes about forty-five. No
  code. Requires an email address, and it is sent to that address.

- [Build your LLM visibility page](https://tools.francesmendez.com/): A free
  tool that writes the plain-language page telling ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
  and Google AI who you are. Built by Frances Méndez.
- [The Invisibility Score](https://tools.camino5.com/): A free tool for
  businesses that finds which questions AI answers with a competitor's name
  instead of yours, across Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Built at
  Camino5.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.francesmendez.com/privacy) and
  [Terms of Use](https://www.francesmendez.com/terms).

## Writing

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- [Reese asked 10 women about AI. I asked 8,964.](https://www.francesmendez.com/thoughts/reese-asked-10-women-about-ai-i-asked-8964):
  8,964 comments, one dinner party, and what women are actually saying about
  AI. A sentiment and theme analysis of the comment section on Reese
  Witherspoon's AI post.
- [Only 1 out of 10 women feel confident using AI. Let's fix that.](https://www.francesmendez.com/thoughts/one-out-of-ten-women-feel-confident-using-ai-lets-fix-that):
  One out of ten women feel confident using AI. Seven years ago that number
  made sense. Today it should not. AI is no longer just for big corporations
  with big budgets — it is for anyone running a real business who is willing
  to learn.
- [Do you actually want to be found?](https://www.francesmendez.com/thoughts/visibility-do-you-actually-want-to-be-found):
  The visibility question most business owners skip, and why it is costing
  them. On showing up digitally when the analog world feels even harder —
  and on introducing yourself to AI before it decides who you are without
  you.
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## Elsewhere

- [Camino5 Agency](https://camino5.com): The agency she co-founded.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesmendez/)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/la.frances.mendez/)

## Optional

- [Parse check](https://www.francesmendez.com/ai-parse-check): A page linked
  from nowhere except this file. A request for it in the server logs is proof
  that something actually read this file rather than guessing at the path.