Profound is the highest-profile pure AI-visibility tracker on the market right now. It does one thing well — tell you where you stand. Vectory does that and ships the fixes — across one more engine (Claude) — with the same 15-minute response window enterprise teams pay 5-figures for elsewhere.
Profound is well-built and shows you exactly where you're invisible across the AI engines they track. But every fix — content, schema, llms.txt, MCP, hallucination patrol — is left to you and your engineering team. Vectory ships those fixes inside the same product, on a weekly cadence, with a real R&D team in the loop.
Profound's UI is the prettiest in this category. Citation drill-downs, share-of-voice charts, weekly digests — all clean.
They tag mention tone reliably. It's a tag, not a 0-1 index, but it's better than no signal.
SOC2-style polish, named CSMs, and clearly-marketed Series-A backing. Procurement loves it.
Profound currently tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overview. Vectory adds Anthropic's Claude — the engine that's growing fastest in enterprise procurement.
Vectory's self-test loop re-tests every page against ~10 target prompts, patches weak spots, and rolls back if a patch makes things worse. Profound has no equivalent.
The "fix" half of the loop. Schema.org, llms.txt, and an MCP server — generated and shipped inside the product. Profound stops at the report.
Vectory generates citation-ready content tuned to the patterns each LLM rewards. Profound has no content layer.
Auto-flag of factual drift in your content + auto-patch. Brand-safety guardrails by default. Profound doesn't ship one.
Vectory pairs every account with a real engineer reachable on Telegram. Profound's enterprise SLA is 1–2 business days.
| Capability | Vectory | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| AI engines tracked | 4 · ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude | 3 · ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AIO |
| Citation tracking | ✓ per-prompt, per-engine, sourced | ✓ |
| Sentiment analysis | ✓ 0–1 index per engine | ~ tone tag only |
| Authority-weighted source scoring | ✓ influence-graph weighted | ~ count-based |
| Adversarial Quality Gate (self-test loop) | ✓ 5-iter patcher + rollback | ✗ |
| Auto-deploy llms.txt + JSON-LD + sitemap | ✓ one-click | ✗ |
| MCP server / .well-known integration | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI-Magnet content pipeline | ✓ generate + ship | ✗ |
| Hallucination & brand-safety shield | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open scoring methodology | ✓ /scoring/ | ✗ proprietary |
| Re-audit cadence | Weekly · automated | Weekly |
| Dedicated R&D team per client | ✓ 24/7 | ✗ CSM only |
| Support response time | 15 minutes | 1–2 business days |
| Free starter audit | ✓ Real, full-pipeline | ~ Demo only |
| Entry pricing | Custom · Concierge Beta | $499+/mo |
A real Vectory audit across all 4 engines, side-by-side with what Profound would tell you. No credit card, no sales call. Delivered in under 48 hours by a real engineer — and we'll show you the patches Profound would never write.