# Profound

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/profound/  
**Website:** https://www.tryprofound.com  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 66.9 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: rising (+40.8 from 26.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 51.6 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 76.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 82.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 81.6 |

## Agent readiness — 73.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | yes |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | conformant |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise, on request — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Profound External API** — The programmatic interface to Profound's Answer Engine Optimization data: brand visibility, citations, sentiment, query fan-outs, FactCheck accuracy, shopping visibility, YouTub...
- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **profound-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Profound Agentic Access** — 125 operations · 90 acting

## Security (4)

- **Profound Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Profound Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Profound Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Profound Trust Center** — SOC 2, HIPAA

## Plans (1)

- **Profound Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, AI, Answer Engine Optimization, AEO, AI Search, Generative Engine Optimization, Marketing, Analytics, Agent Analytics, Brand Visibility, Citations, MCP

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/profound/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.