Profound watches how your brand appears in AI answers and reports it. Reflexa puts an agent on the site and changes the site. Different jobs: one tells you where you stand, the other does the work that moves it. Below, what each does in its own words, side by side, and when each is the better choice.
From Profound's own site, read on 9 October 2026: Profound describes itself as an AI marketing platform: it identifies opportunities in AI search results, generates and stages content changes as drafts in a customer's CMS for human approval, manages social calendars and monitors brand visibility. Engines it names: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Google AI Overviews. Pricing: no public pricing — “Get a Demo” / contact sales. https://www.tryprofound.com/
Reflexa puts an agent on the website — one middleware file on a coded site, a plugin on WordPress — that reads the pages the way Google and the AI engines read them (23 checks), applies the fixes the owner approves from inside the site, writes a page's title, description, opening or FAQ for approval, counts every AI visit page by page, and answers questions about the site. Every change is applied from inside the site and is reversible; nothing is applied without approval. The page check is free in a free account; Starter $49/month, Growth $149/month (five times the usage); Free keeps one site, paid plans do not count sites.
| Profound | Reflexa | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | describes itself as an AI marketing platform: it identifies opportunities in AI search results, generates and stages content changes as drafts in a customer's CMS for human approval, manages social calendars and monitors brand visibility | puts an agent on the website — one middleware file on a coded site, a plugin on WordPress — that reads the pages the way Google and the AI engines read them (23 checks), applies the fixes the owner approves from inside the site, writes a page's title, description, opening or FAQ for approval, counts every AI visit page by page, and answers questions about the site |
| Engines | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Google AI Overviews | the checks are engine-agnostic — they test what every fetcher needs (robots.txt per crawler, raw HTML, structured data); AI traffic counts the crawlers of OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google by verified user-agent and IP |
| On the site | no code on the site; content changes are staged in the CMS for a person to publish | yes — the agent runs on the site and is bound to it by its token and a domain proof |
| Applies fixes | drafts content for approval; does not apply site-level fixes such as robots.txt or structured data from inside the site | yes — four switches applied from inside (AI crawlers in robots.txt, Organization JSON-LD, sitemap, /llms.txt) and page text written and published on approval, every change reversible |
| AI traffic | visibility monitoring across engines; no on-site request counting described | yes — every AI request the site receives, split into pages opened to answer someone, pages crawled to learn, and people who clicked through |
| Pricing | no public pricing — “Get a Demo” / contact sales | the page check is free in a free account; Starter $49/month, Growth $149/month (five times the usage); Free keeps one site, paid plans do not count sites |
A large marketing team that wants AI-search monitoring and content production across many channels in one enterprise platform, with sales-led pricing.
A company that wants the site itself made readable and recommendable — the crawler access, the structured data, the answer-first text — done on the site rather than listed in a report, with every AI visit counted from inside and a price that starts at free. Many teams run a visibility report beside it; the two do not overlap.
Honesty note: the Profound column is what its public site says on 9 October 2026. Products change; check the linked page before you decide, and tell us if this is out of date.
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Not a like-for-like one. Profound reports on how your brand appears in AI answers; Reflexa changes the site so those engines can read it, from inside. Teams that want both a visibility report and the site work use both.
From its own site, as read on 9 October 2026: drafts content for approval; does not apply site-level fixes such as robots.txt or structured data from inside the site.
Four switches applied from inside the site — AI crawlers in robots.txt, Organization JSON-LD in every page, a sitemap, /llms.txt — and page text (title, description, opening, FAQ) published only after you approve the exact words. Every change is reversible; nothing is applied without approval.
If you do not know whether AI can read your site, start with Reflexa's free page check — it is free, in a free account, and tells you in minutes. If you want to know how often you are named across engines and prompts, Profound is built for that. A large marketing team that wants AI-search monitoring and content production across many channels in one enterprise platform, with sales-led pricing is the case for Profound.
The page check runs the 23 checks on your public pages — a free account, no card, in minutes.