# Profound

> Profound is a subscription marketing platform that measures how brands appear in AI answers, identifies cited sources and content gaps, tracks AI crawlers and referrals, and automates marketing workflows. Its customers include enterprise brands, agencies and smaller marketing teams.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** James Cadwallader (Co-founder and CEO), Dylan Babbs (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes, Agent Analytics, Agents, Ask Profound and Agent Assistant
- **Notable:** Raised five announced rounds totaling USD 334.5 million by September 2026., Reported over 1,000 enterprise brands in September 2026., Ramp case study reports accounts-payable AI visibility increasing from 3.2% to 22.2% after targeted content work; vendor-published result.

## Products & services

- **Answer Engine Insights** — Queries answer engines and analyzes brand mentions, visibility, sentiment, competitors and citations.
- **Prompt Volumes** — Conversation-derived keyword, topic and intent data for choosing AI-search research priorities.
- **Agent Analytics** — AI crawler monitoring and human referral analysis using website traffic and log integrations.
- **Agents** — Editable workflows for research, content creation, refreshes and publishing; Sheets runs workflows across many inputs.
- **Ask Profound and Agent Assistant** — Natural-language data analysis and workflow construction with editable steps.
- **AI Marketer (Aim)** — An agent orchestrator that uses shared brand context to support marketing work across functions.
- **Pages** — Page-level citations, content readiness, crawlability and performance analysis.

## Achievements

- Raised five announced rounds totaling USD 334.5 million by September 2026.
- Reported over 1,000 enterprise brands in September 2026.
- Ramp case study reports accounts-payable AI visibility increasing from 3.2% to 22.2% after targeted content work; vendor-published result.
- Official company information reports SOC 2 Type II compliance.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation and introduced AI Marketer as an agent orchestrator.
- **2026-05** — Outlined Ask Profound, Agent Assistant and plans for background agents and collaborative documents; distinguish announced roadmap from shipped capabilities.
- **2026-02** — Announced Series C and Profound Agents.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tryprofound.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryprofound/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/profound
- GitHub: https://github.com/cooper-square-technologies

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Last updated: 2026-10-05