Profound

Profound is a marketing platform for the AI era and a leading platform for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Operated by Cooper Square Technologies Inc. (dba Profound) in New York, it helps brands measure and improve how they are represented across AI answer engines and assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Copilot, and Grok — through answer-engine insights, agent analytics, prompt volumes, shopping visibility, and content optimization. Profound runs a programmatic Profound External API and an Agent Analytics Ingestion API (API access is included on the Enterprise plan), is SOC 2 and HIPAA aligned, and publishes a responsible-disclosure policy. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.

Profound is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AI, Answer Engine Optimization, AEO, and AI Search.

Profound’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 14 more developer resources.

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27.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 7/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyAIAnswer Engine OptimizationAEOAI SearchGenerative Engine OptimizationMarketingAnalyticsAgent Analytics

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 27.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Profound Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Profound Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Profound Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Login
Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Profound
description: Profound is a marketing platform for the AI era and a leading platform for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).
  Operated by Cooper Square Technologies Inc. (dba Profound) in New York, it helps brands measure and improve how they are
  represented across AI answer engines and assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode,
  Copilot, and Grok — through answer-engine insights, agent analytics, prompt volumes, shopping visibility, and content optimization.
  Profound runs a programmatic Profound External API and an Agent Analytics Ingestion API (API access is included on the Enterprise
  plan), is SOC 2 and HIPAA aligned, and publishes a responsible-disclosure policy. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
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