latest small feature i shipped at @profound users don't need to interrupt their workflow - now they can answer agents' prompts directly from the preview card in the navigation.

Big month of shipping at @profound. Helen Martin and Hana Hajebian are covering all of it live tomorrow at 1pm ET. They'll walk through: Dynamic Bot Rendering, our refreshed Projects and Agents experience, plus Google Search Console data in Pages.

quality of life ship (internal for now) with @MikaelSargsyan at @profound search and trigger every artifact, page, and action available on the platform. preview files, start chats with agents, download PDFs, create projects, copy links, navigate, etc etc - all directly from the menu (and it's fast).

oh hi it's been a while. :) sharing a few updates: i've recently joined @profound, we raised a $180M series D, and to celebrate, @MikaelSargsyan @ambedgar @s3frn and i shipped some nice updates to the website. finally feeling excited to get back to sharing more stuff here.

AI is changing how people discover brands, and we believe marketing has to change with it. Co-founders @thejamescad and @dbabbs built Profound to help marketers understand how their brands show up in AI Search, then act intentionally on those insights. Now, the team is doubling down on its AI Marketer and expanding its applied AI labs in New York and San Francisco. We believe most marketers cares about how their brand shows up in AI. That conviction has only grown. Today, Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by one third of the Fortune 100 and more than 16% of the Fortune 500. We’re thrilled to continue backing @profound as part of their $180M Series D. Congratulations to the entire team! CC: Lightspeed Partners @sach_pat, @elijahconniff

Congrats to the Profound team on their Series D. If your team isn't investing in your AEO, you're already late. And great to watch them evolve from AEO services into a full blown agentic marketing platform. Let's go.

AI is fundamentally reshaping how consumers discover products and in turn, how marketers do their work. @dbabbs @thejamescad and the @profound team saw this early and have been building the foundational agentic AI platform for the future of marketing with incredible speed. Thrilled to quadruple down and co-lead Profound’s Series D with our friends at @sequoia 🚀

Excited to share @profound has raised a $180M Series D, co-led by @sequoia and @kleinerperkins. Winning in AI Search requires an inhuman amount of work. That is why we are building the AI platform for marketers, underpinned by two things: 1/ Your AI Marketer, a marketing expert that proactively investigates your data, identifies opportunities, and then does the work while you stay in the loop. 2/ Context Manager, a living synthesis of your meetings, email threads, and brand data powering this new teammate. As your brand evolves, so does your AI Marketer. AI labs are pushing the frontier in fields like engineering, law, and finance. But marketing, one of the economy's most complex and consequential applications, has received far less attention. That’s why we’re expanding our applied AI research team. We’re bringing together research scientists, engineers, and IOI medalists to advance AI for marketing. Their focus: post-training models for marketing workflows, and building the world's first AI benchmark for real-world tasks in the field.

🚢 New ship in @profound: Sheets Templates We took the most common workflows teams are running in Sheets and packaged them as ready-to-go templates. Each one comes pre-loaded with the right Agent, columns, and sample data.

LLM referral traffic was climbing faster than every other channel, Sarah Shaffer and the team at @Plaid wanted to build a repeatable growth system around it. We worked with them to build Answer Engine Insights to track prompts and citations, then they used AI Marketer to deploy Agents that audit pages, refresh them, and automate the reporting. The results: 🚢 300%+ increase in LLM referral traffic to 🚢 210% increase in conversions from that traffic 🚢 10-100x faster execution on AEO workflows