A Profound Alternative for the Half the Dashboard Hands Back

Anything that tells you how AI answers treat your brand, or changes how they treat it. That covers rival trackers such as Peec AI, Otterly, and Scrunch, the AI visibility modules now bolted onto general SEO suites, a freelancer with a spreadsheet of prompts, and managed services such as this one where somebody also edits the site. Profound is the most thorough of the trackers by some distance. We are in the last group, which is a different purchase rather than a more expensive version of the same one.

Profound observes, AI Visibility observes for you, and Page Optimization intervenes. They put your prompts to the engines every day and record what comes back, and they do it thoroughly. We write the questions for your business, ask them every day, and report monthly, and when you add Page Optimization we open the site and change the thing responsible. Their pricing counts prompts, responses, credits, seats, engines, languages, and regions. Ours is $149 a month per website for 25 prompts on Claude, plus $49 a month for each engine you add. Which one you need depends on whether you are short of information or short of somebody to act on it.

At Starter, yes, by fifty dollars a month, and it is a good product for the money. What that ninety nine buys is one engine, one seat, fifty prompts, and no way to export what you find. At Growth it is three hundred and ninety nine against our $149, so there it is the tracker that costs more. Either way, price is not the argument. The difference is that here the questions are written for you and the results arrive as a plain monthly report, where Profound hands you a dashboard, and Page Optimization adds somebody who will change a page, which neither of their plans includes.

Because measurement turned out to be the cheap half, and at $149 a month AI Visibility is fifty dollars more than their Starter. What the fifty dollars buys is questions written for your business and a monthly report in plain words, rather than a dashboard. The expensive part comes after that: somebody with editor access who decides which three pages are worth rewriting, rewrites them, ships the markup, and is still doing it in month seven. That person costs a great deal more than either subscription whether you employ them or hire them. If they are already on your payroll, buy Profound and keep the difference. We would rather say so than take the order.

You should, if somebody there will actually do it. It is much the cheaper path and we say so on this page more than once. The reason it goes wrong is not that the reports are hard to read. It is that acting on one means editing a live page, and editing a live page needs access, confidence, and a free afternoon. Those three rarely arrive in the same week, so the subscription renews and the site stays exactly as it was.

Often not, and month one is a much better time to establish that than month six. If nobody in your market is asking a model about what you sell yet, none of this matters, and that is still true of more industries than the category wants to admit. We will tell you plainly. This starts to make sense when buyers are clearly asking, the answers name somebody else, and nobody on your side has the hours to change it.

No, and there is often good reason not to. If you already pay for it, keep it: AI Visibility runs its own daily checks, so the two do not clash. Their daily measurement is not something we try to replace, so canceling it in order to hire us would cost you something and gain you nothing. We will say if the subscription has stopped earning its keep, but that is a separate question from whether to hire us.

No. Nothing gets rebuilt and nothing moves. AI Visibility touches nothing on your site. With Page Optimization, pages are edited one at a time on the install you already own, and anything carrying real risk gets staged and talked through first.

Then that comes first and the timeline stretches. Classic ranking damage and AI invisibility are different problems with a large overlap, and working on the second while the first is unresolved wastes everybody’s time. We establish which it is, whether the cause was a manual action, an algorithmic change, or something that merely resembles one, and what has to be rewritten or removed before anything else starts. Anybody offering a date for that is guessing.

No to both. The site stays on your own hosting under your own domain, and every page and every piece of markup belongs to you. This is worth asking of anything in this category. One product on this hub builds a separate agent facing copy of your site, which quietly puts part of your visibility somewhere you do not control. Nothing we do leaves your install.

AI Visibility is $149 a month per website and covers 25 prompts tracked on Claude every day, reported each month with a suggested next step. Each additional AI engine is $49 a month. When you want the pages themselves rewritten, Page Optimization is $1,100 a month for four pages a month, and Visibility Pro bundles AI Visibility, Search Reporting, and Page Optimization for $1,200 a month. Most businesses starting from nowhere in AI answers belong on AI Visibility first, and we will say so rather than selling up.

No, and treat anybody who does with suspicion. Nobody outside the model providers decides what an answer says, the same prompt can name different companies twice in one day, and models retrain without notice. A guarantee here is either hedged until it means nothing or pinned to prompts so obscure that winning them proves nothing. What we commit to is work done, shipped, and reported, with the months a number went the wrong way shown beside the months it did not.

How often the assistants named you, which competitor they named most and how far ahead they are, how that moved since last month, and examples of the questions asked. With Page Optimization it also covers what changed on your pages. It averages every day of the month rather than a single check, because one check of a noisy system is not a measurement.

Six to twelve weeks for a rewritten page to start turning up, and longer where a model leans on sources it has trusted for years. A crawler that was blocked and is now open can change things faster than that, sometimes inside two weeks, because the problem was never the page. Anything described as immediate in this category is describing a dashboard refreshing, which is not the same measurement at all.

Cancel any time and the service runs to the last business day of that month. There are no partial refunds. Nothing is stranded. The site, the pages, and the markup were always yours, so there is no account to migrate and nothing at all to hand back. Standing in AI answers does decay once the work stops, because competitors keep publishing and models keep retraining. That is the nature of the channel rather than a lock in, and we would rather you knew it before signing than after leaving.