Last updated 13 May 2026
COMPARE / AI SEE YOU VS PROFOUND
AI See You vs Profound.
Profound is the most-funded enterprise AI visibility platform on the market, with $58.5M raised and customers like Ramp, MongoDB, and US Bank. AI See You is AI Recommendation Infrastructure, a different category entirely. Here is how the two compare and which makes sense for your business.
At a glance
| Profound | AI See You | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | AI visibility platform | AI Recommendation Infrastructure |
| Primary output | Dashboard tracking visibility across 10+ AI engines | Live AI Knowledge Centre on your subdomain plus Recommendation Score |
| What it measures | Citation count, share of voice, sentiment, prompt volume | Recommendation rate (Recommendation Score, XX/100) |
| What it changes | Surfaces opportunities to act on (your team executes) | Sets up the signals AI uses to recommend you |
| Content generation | AI-generated article drafts via Agents | Configured KC content set up by AI See You as part of the subscription |
| Headquarters | New York, USA | Sydney, Australia |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 |
| Funding | $58.5M (Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Sequoia) | Founder-led, bootstrapped |
| Customer profile | Fortune 500 brands (Target, Walmart, Figma, US Bank, MongoDB) | Challenger brands and growing service businesses |
| Pricing entry | $99/mo Starter (ChatGPT only, 50 prompts) | $1,500/mo Standard (full setup, all four platforms tracked) |
| Pricing mid-tier | $399/mo Growth (3 platforms, 100 prompts, 3 articles/mo) | $2,500/mo Pro (single market, up to 30 products) |
| Pricing enterprise | Custom (typically $2,000 to $5,000+/mo) | From $5,000/mo (multi-market) |
| Setup fee | None disclosed publicly | None. Month 1 is setup, included. |
| Free trial | No free trial (free AEO report available) | No free trial, but free baseline call |
What Profound does
Profound positions itself as the enterprise AI visibility platform. The core product is a dashboard that tracks how brands appear in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and ChatGPT Shopping. It surfaces citation patterns, share-of-voice metrics, sentiment analysis, and competitive benchmarking. On higher-priced tiers, Profound adds an Agents feature that generates AI-optimised article drafts and a panel data product called Prompt Volumes that estimates real-user query volume from opted-in consumer panels.
Profound is built for Fortune 500 brands with dedicated marketing analytics teams. The customer list (Target, Walmart, Figma, Ramp, MongoDB, US Bank, Indeed, Chime) reflects the audience. The platform has SOC 2 Type II compliance, role-based access, SSO, and dedicated strategist support on Enterprise plans, all consistent with a procurement-grade enterprise product.
What AI See You does
AI See You is AI Recommendation Infrastructure. We set up a live AI Knowledge Centre on a subdomain of your brand (knowledge.yourbrand.com), structured to be retrievable by every major AI system. The Knowledge Centre carries the schema, the llms.txt, the structured product or service descriptions, the problem mapping (the questions your buyers actually ask AI), the inline citations to credible sources, and the freshness signals that AI systems use to evaluate and recommend brands. Recommendation Score tracking runs weekly across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, and updates a single 0-to-100 score that reflects how recommendable your brand is.
The difference is that tracking is one part of the stack, not the whole stack. The bigger part is the infrastructure the tracking measures.
Where they overlap
Both platforms run query sets across the major AI engines and report how often your brand appears. Both track citations, mentions, and competitor share-of-voice. Both surface gaps and opportunities. If your single requirement is "track how my brand shows up in AI answers", both platforms can do that. Profound goes deeper on cross-platform coverage (10+ engines vs 4 on AI See You) and on prompt volume panel data, which is genuinely proprietary to Profound. AI See You goes deeper on multi-market localisation (per-market content, schema, and rankings across AU, UK, USA) and on the infrastructure layer underneath the tracking.
Where they diverge
The fundamental divergence is in what each platform produces. Profound produces a dashboard. The dashboard is excellent. But the work of building the content, schema, and authority signals that improve AI visibility happens outside the dashboard, by your team or by an agency you hire. Profound surfaces opportunities. Your team executes on them.
AI See You produces a live, structured Knowledge Centre on your brand's subdomain. The Knowledge Centre is the work. The work of mapping problems, writing the content, applying the schema, configuring the llms.txt, and keeping the freshness signals current is done by AI See You as part of the subscription. The tracking measures how well that infrastructure is performing. The infrastructure is what changes the score.
For a Fortune 500 brand with a 12-person AEO team in place, Profound is built for that team to operate. For a challenger brand without an in-house AEO team, AI See You builds and runs the infrastructure, then measures it.
Pricing comparison
| Tier | Profound | AI See You |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $99/mo (ChatGPT only, 50 prompts, 1 seat) | $1,500/mo (full setup, 4 platforms tracked) |
| Mid-tier | $399/mo (3 platforms, 100 prompts, 3 articles/mo) | $2,500/mo Pro (single market) |
| Enterprise | Custom (typically $2,000 to $5,000+/mo) | From $5,000/mo (multi-market) |
| Setup fees | None disclosed | None |
| Content production | Self-serve via Agents (capped per tier) | Configured by AI See You as part of subscription |
The pricing comparison is harder than it looks. Profound's $99/mo Starter is much cheaper than AI See You's $1,500/mo Standard on a sticker basis, but the products do different things. Profound's $99 tier gives you a ChatGPT-only dashboard. AI See You's $1,500 tier gives you a fully configured AI Knowledge Centre, full schema, llms.txt, weekly Recommendation Score tracking across all four major platforms, and ongoing content maintenance. To compare like with like, the question is not "what does each cost?" but "what does each produce?"
Who each is built for
Profound is built for
- Fortune 500 brands with dedicated AEO or marketing analytics teams.
- Companies with procurement processes that require SOC 2 Type II, SSO, and SAML.
- Multi-region enterprises tracking AI visibility across 150+ regions and 30+ languages.
- Ecommerce brands tracking ChatGPT Shopping Visibility specifically.
- Teams with the in-house resources to act on dashboard insights.
AI See You is built for
- Challenger brands and growing service businesses without an in-house AEO team.
- Companies that need the infrastructure built, not just the measurement of it.
- Shopify brands and DTC product brands selling in AU, UK, and USA.
- Service businesses across professional services, allied health, trades.
- B2B vendors looking to be recommended on procurement shortlists, when operating across multiple markets.
PROOF, REFERENCE BRAND
The Aussie Man, 18% to 34% in three weeks.
The Aussie Man, an Australian DTC men's skincare brand on Shopify, was the first AI See You client. The Recommendation Score moved from 18% to 34% across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity in three weeks after the AI Knowledge Centre went live. Same questions. Same four platforms. Independently verified.
Frequently asked questions
See your baseline Recommendation Score.
Book a 15-minute call. We will run your baseline Recommendation Score and walk you through what AI See You would set up for your business.