Surfaced AI vs Profound

Enterprise AI-visibility analytics vs. a founder-grade audit that hands you the fixes.

What Profound is for

Profound is an enterprise answer-engine analytics platform. It tracks how brands appear across AI assistants at scale, with dashboards, share-of-voice reporting, and the seat and support model larger marketing teams expect.

What Surfaced AI is for

Surfaced AI is built for one founder auditing one site. It runs 32 checks, tells you which specific signals are missing, and generates the assets to fix them — rather than monitoring a metric over quarters.

Side by side

FeatureSurfacedProfound
Primary jobDiagnose and fixMonitor and report
Built forSolo founders, indie hackersEnterprise marketing teams
Generates fixesYes — six paste-ready assetsReporting-led
Entry priceFree, then $19/moEnterprise contract
Time to first resultAbout two minutesOnboarding process
Ongoing trackingRescans and historyDeep longitudinal analytics

Pick Profound if

  • You have a marketing team and a budget line for tooling.
  • You need share-of-voice trends across many prompts and markets.
  • Procurement, SSO, and account management matter to you.

Pick Surfaced AI if

  • You are one or two people and want the blockers today.
  • You want the fixes written, not just the diagnosis.
  • You would rather start free than start with a sales call.

The honest verdict

Different tiers of the same problem. Profound is instrumentation for teams already investing in AI visibility; Surfaced is the first pass that tells a founder what is broken and hands over the patch.

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