Profound
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.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Profound the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Profound scores 64.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 51/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Profound
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Profound. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 16
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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...
Profound Agents API
The Agents API from Profound — 8 operation(s) for agents.
Profound Beta API
The beta API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for beta.
Profound Bot Traffic Reports API
The Bot Traffic Reports API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for bot traffic reports.
Profound Categories API
The Categories API from Profound — 10 operation(s) for categories.
Profound Content API
The Content API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for content.
Profound Content optimization API
The Content optimization API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for content optimization.
Profound Documents API
The Documents API from Profound — 3 operation(s) for documents.
Profound Human Referrals API
The Human Referrals API from Profound — 2 operation(s) for human referrals.
Profound Integrations API
The Integrations API from Profound — 1 operation(s) for integrations.
Profound Knowledge bases API
The Knowledge bases API from Profound — 4 operation(s) for knowledge bases.
Profound OpenAI Ads API
The OpenAI Ads API from Profound — 1 operation(s) for openai ads.
Profound Organization API
The Organization API from Profound — 16 operation(s) for organization.
Profound Projects API
The Projects API from Profound — 10 operation(s) for projects.
Profound Prompts API
The Prompts API from Profound — 3 operation(s) for prompts.
Profound Reports API
The Reports API from Profound — 62 operation(s) for reports.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Profound MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Profound Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Profound — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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