Garrett GomezSiddharth Chandrappa

Garrett Gomez and Siddharth Chandrappa

/Product

Go from tracking AI's narrative to shaping it with revamped Sentiment in Profound

Tools for tracking sentiment in AI responses existed, but most stop at the surface. They tell you sentiment ticked up or down, maybe break it down by platform, and leave the hardest part to you: figuring out what's actually driving the shift and what to do about it. That's where AEO strategy stalls. We rebuilt Sentiment in Profound to fix that.

Helen MartinAchintya Ashok

Helen Martin and Achintya Ashok

/Product

The Profound MCP Evolution – Part 1

Profound's MCP now connects agents to a knowledge graph and 15 new capabilities built for how Marketing Engineers actually work. For retailers, a reframe is critical. Answer engines shortlist products and guide purchase decisions long before shoppers ever reach retail or ecommerce websites. This compresses the shopping funnel and makes traditional search insufficient as a primary customer acquisition channel. Instead, retailers need to ensure answer engines recommend them throughout the shopping journey. This requires understanding how shoppers use answer engines for Christmas gifting, how to earn mentions and citations in relevant AI responses, and how to maximize visibility across AI search. This report gives you that edge. It draws on real shopper behavior from Christmas 2025, analyzed through Profound’s AI visibility lens, illustrating how people use AI to shop for the holiday. It also provides actionable takeaways, revealing how to optimize e-commerce products before the 2026 season ramps up so you can win the AI shelf this Christmas.

Brandon Punturo

Brandon Punturo

/Product, Research

We tracked 2 Million ChatGPT prompts. Shopping showed up less than 10% of the time.

79% of prompts never trigger shopping. Not rarely — never, across nine months of data. The ones that do are surprisingly sticky: 83% chance of triggering again the next day. But that persistence decays, and model updates can reset it overnight. We tracked 26 million prompts across 13,000 categories to map where shopping actually shows up, how consistently it fires, and what that means for brands building strategy around a surface that barely turns on.

Jack TrainaSiddharth Chandrappa

Jack Traina and Siddharth Chandrappa

/Product

Upgrading content optimization with the AEO content score

We’re introducing the Profound AEO Content Score, a new machine learning–powered metric that helps marketers understand how well their content is optimized for AI search results. Built from millions of top-cited pages across AI systems, the score measures your content’s likelihood of being referenced by AI search. It’s the foundation of our new Content Optimization V2, giving you real-time AEO insights, benchmarks, and clear recommendations to boost your visibility in AI-generated answers.

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