Profound
AI marketing platform for brand visibility
CORE INFO
Profound sells software to enterprise brands, marketing teams, and agencies that want to track and improve how AI tools describe their companies and products. Its platform combines answer-engine monitoring with citation analytics, demand data, crawler insights, and marketing workflow tools.
- Series D: $180 million co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins on September 15, 2026, at a reported $1.8 billion post-money valuation.techcrunch.comtryprofound.com
- Enterprise customer base: More than 1,000 companies as of September 15, 2026, according to TechCrunch.techcrunch.com
- Axios reported, using Profound's data, that LinkedIn had become the top-cited domain for professional-search queries in AI chatbots, with citation frequency doubling since November.axios.com
WHY WE WOULD WORK AT PROFOUND
Shape AI-Era Marketing
Help marketing teams win as discovery shifts from blue links to AI answers. Profound's mission is to help brands understand and influence how systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews represent them.
Join Exceptional Growth
Profound grew from a 2024 launch to more than 300 employees, 1,000+ enterprise customers, and a reported $1.8B valuation. The company has raised approximately $334.5M across five disclosed rounds.
Build Frontier AI Products
Work on Answer Engine Insights, AI Marketer, Profound Agents, Context Manager, Ads Studio, and Shopping. The platform combines LLM monitoring, agent orchestration, citation analytics, brand-context synthesis, and AI advertising optimization.
Create Visible Impact
Your work can influence how major brands appear in AI-generated answers and shopping results. Profound serves customers including Walmart, Figma, Comcast, Estée Lauder Companies, Zoom, ServiceNow, and MongoDB.
Grow With High Ownership
The team emphasizes fractal speed, obsessive craftsmanship, and clear, egoless communication. With teams across New York, San Francisco, London, and Buenos Aires, employees can take on meaningful responsibility in a rapidly expanding company.
Share in the Upside
Profound offers significant equity participation alongside benefits such as flexible time off, fitness stipends, catered meals, and commuter support. Its rapid funding and customer growth create meaningful upside for people joining during a major expansion phase.
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Answer Engine Insights
Monitors brand visibility, sentiment, competitive presence, and citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It helps marketing teams understand how answer engines represent their brands and products.
Prompt Demand Intelligence
Analyzes millions of AI conversations to provide prompt-volume, topic-trend, keyword, and intent data. This reveals what audiences are asking and where new search opportunities are emerging.
Agent Analytics
Tracks AI crawlers, the pages they access, citations generated from website content, and AI-referred visitor conversions. These insights connect crawler activity and answer-engine visibility with website performance.
AI Marketing Agents
AI Marketer and Profound Agents support research, competitive analysis, content creation, reporting, public relations, advertising optimization, and campaign workflows. The no-code agent system helps teams automate marketing execution and deploy specialized sub-agents.
Context Shopping Advertising
Context Manager synthesizes brand information from knowledge bases, meeting transcripts, and communication threads to improve AI Marketer outputs. Shopping and Ads Studio extend the platform into SKU-level AI-shopping visibility and advertising creation, monitoring, and optimization across OpenAI, Google, and Meta.