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 publishes a 125-operation OpenAPI 3.1 for its External API at api.tryprofound.com, runs a separate Agent Analytics Ingestion API, ships official Python and TypeScript SDKs, and operates a hosted remote MCP server at mcp.tryprofound.com with OAuth 2.1 and a conformant A2A agent card. API access is included on the Enterprise plan on request. Profound is SOC 2 and HIPAA aligned and publishes a responsible-disclosure policy. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
Profound publishes 16 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Agents API, Beta API, Bot Traffic Reports API, and 13 more. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Answer Engine Optimization, AEO, and AI Search.
Profound’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 38 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
What people ask Profound 15
The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that Profound's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist
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APIs 16
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Profound Agent Analytics Ingestion API
The inbound log-ingestion endpoint for Profound Agent Analytics. Customers POST batches of up to 1,000 web-request log entries as JSON (timestamp, method, host, path, status_cod...
Profound Agents API
The Agents API from Profound — 8 operation(s) for agents.
Profound Beta API
The beta API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for beta.
Profound Bot Traffic Reports API
The Bot Traffic Reports API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for bot traffic reports.
Profound Categories API
The Categories API from Profound — 10 operation(s) for categories.
Profound Content API
The Content API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for content.
Profound Content optimization API
The Content optimization API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for content optimization.
Profound Documents API
The Documents API from Profound — 3 operation(s) for documents.
Profound Human Referrals API
The Human Referrals API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for human referrals.
Profound Integrations API
The Integrations API from Profound — 1 operation(s) for integrations.
Profound Knowledge bases API
The Knowledge bases API from Profound — 4 operation(s) for knowledge bases.
Profound OpenAI Ads API
The OpenAI Ads API from Profound — 1 operation(s) for openai ads.
Profound Organization API
The Organization API from Profound — 16 operation(s) for organization.
Profound Projects API
The Projects API from Profound — 10 operation(s) for projects.
Profound Prompts API
The Prompts API from Profound — 3 operation(s) for prompts.
Profound Reports API
The Reports API from Profound — 62 operation(s) for reports.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Pricing Plans 1
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Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Profound Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSOpenAPI Overlays 16
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
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