# OnlyAEO vs Profound (2026): An AEO Platform That Creates the Content vs AI Visibility Software > OnlyAEO is the AEO platform that tracks AI answers and creates the content to change them, and our team can run it for you. Profound is AI visibility software your team runs. How to choose. URL: https://onlyaeo.com/compare/onlyaeo-vs-profound · Published: 2026-10-12 · Author: Tejas Patil Choose by who will do the work. - **OnlyAEO:** the AEO platform that tracks AI answers and creates the content to change them. Our team can run it for you, and your team approves every piece before it goes live. - **What's included:** articles, YouTube videos, other languages and mentions on trusted sites. - **Profound:** AI visibility software that your own team runs. ## Should you choose Profound or OnlyAEO, an AEO platform our team can run for you? Both options aim at the same result. You want ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to name your brand when a buyer asks about your category. The difference is who does the work each week to get you there. - **OnlyAEO is an AEO platform that also creates the content.** On a managed plan, our team runs it and does the AI search work, and your team reviews and approves every piece before it goes live. - **Profound is software.** Your team works inside the platform, and its AI Marketer drafts the work and asks your team to approve it. So the useful question for a marketing lead is plain. Do you have people with spare hours to run a platform every day, or do you need the finished work? ## See what our team has done for brands like yours Results first, because that is what you are buying from OnlyAEO. Both come from our published case studies. - **[FastTrackr AI](/case-studies/fasttrackr-ai): from 0.1% to the number 3 most-cited brand.** It started at 0.1% AI visibility, ranked 338 of 458 brands. In about 100 days it became the number 3 most-cited brand in its category and the number 4 most-cited source. - **[New York edibles retailer](/case-studies/new-york-edibles-retailer): from 1.5% to 25% visibility.** It climbed from rank 50 to 4 of 374 brands. Its own website became the most-cited source in the category, ahead of New York State's official site. > We went from being essentially invisible in our category to the #3 most-cited brand inside one quarter. > > Vineet Mohan, Founder and CEO, FastTrackr AI In both cases the OnlyAEO team did the work and the client approved it. Each OnlyAEO client gets a dedicated team, a regular review with their own people, and someone always a call or a message away. In our client work, first measurable results usually take at least 60 days, and every monthly report shows where you stand along the way. ## See what Profound gives your team On its own website, Profound calls itself an AI marketing platform, built around an agent it calls the AI Marketer. It tracks how answer engines talk about your brand. The AI Marketer finds the work, drafts it and asks a person on your team to approve it. Profound's Agents page says they can publish approved content to a connected CMS, with a human approval step on every run. So Profound measures and can also produce content. Your own team operates it. It suits companies with an in-house team that wants to run AI visibility work itself, every day. ## Do you need an in-house team to run Profound? A platform does what your team tells it to. Someone has to choose the prompts, read the daily changes, decide which gaps matter, set up the Agents, check the drafts and approve them. That is a job, often more than one. The company also works with agency partners such as iPullRank, Avenue Z and Greenpark. Many teams can measure and still have nobody free to act on what they see. OnlyAEO exists for them. > Don't just measure. Improve, without adding headcount. We cover how to weigh that choice in [in-house AEO team vs hiring an agency](/blog/in-house-vs-agency-aeo-the-real-cost-and-capability-tradeoff). ## Let our team run the platform for you, every month OnlyAEO is an AEO platform that tracks where AI names your brand and creates the content to change it, and our team can run it for you. On a managed plan, you get finished work to approve, not a to-do list. ### What you get every month - **AI visibility analytics**: where your brand shows up in AI answers and which sources AI cites, every month. - **Work on 10 AI assistants**: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI (Muse) and Instinct. - **Researched, fact-checked articles** published on your site in your voice. They go into your own CMS template, so the layout, fonts and colours are yours. We publish to Framer, WordPress, Webflow or any CMS. - **A video series** planned, scripted and packaged for your YouTube channel every month, because AI reads YouTube too. - **Articles in other languages**, such as French, Spanish, German, Portuguese or Arabic, with the same research and checks as English. - **Mentions on trusted sites** and listings that AI reads. You get a ranked list of sites AI already cites in your space where you aren't mentioned yet, with a recommended play for each, such as a guest post, partnership, listing or review. - **Posts for other channels**, drafted for LinkedIn, Reddit, Quora, Medium, YouTube and G2, ready for a person on your side to post. - **A website health check** so every AI engine can read your site. ### How a month runs 1. **We learn your brand.** To start, a free AI audit sets your baseline, and all we need from you is a 30-minute call, your best writing and the facts you want AI to get right. We learn your brand's voice, facts and buyers, and we connect publishing. 2. **We check AI.** Every month a fresh report shows where you are named. 3. **We create.** Our team makes the articles, videos and listings, and you approve them. 4. **We review together.** We look at what worked and plan the next month, with your dedicated team a call or a message away. There is more on [how the platform and our managed plans work](/how-it-works). ## Teach the engine your brand before a word is written OnlyAEO writes every article, video and post from a Context Graph, one record of your company built before a word is written. Content that starts from nothing but a topic tends to read like everyone else's. - **Connects to** Google Search Console, WordPress, Framer, Google Drive, Google Docs, Slack, Gmail, YouTube and your decks. - **Holds** your facts, voice, buyers, competitors and the claims you can and cannot make. - **Updates and asks.** Change a fact once and every new piece uses it, and when something isn't written down, our team asks you. When an article says something about your product, it came from you. ### Research every buyer, and ask the engines first Each buyer persona is researched from your market: role, company type, goals, pain points and decision criteria. Different buyers get different answers from AI, so the same personas brief the writing. Then OnlyAEO asks the engines first. We put the buyer's question to ChatGPT and Claude, read every page they cite in full, and turn each search they ran into a section of the article. ## Run five checks before anything goes live Speed is easy now. Accuracy is the hard part. Every OnlyAEO article passes five checks before it is published. 1. **Claim check.** Every number must match an evidence row. No source, cut. 2. **Humanizer** in your brand's voice. 3. **Link validator.** A dead link blocks publishing. 4. **Independent score** of 85+ from a separate scorer. 5. **Human approval** from your team. Around those sit our publishing guardrails: brand voice matching, source verification, internal linking and an SEO safety check. ## Count only the answers where AI recommends you A mention is not a recommendation. Being listed seventh in a paragraph about competitors won't win you a buyer. ### What we count - **Recommendations counted on their own.** OnlyAEO counts the answers where AI recommends your brand separately from answers that only mention you in text or only link to you as a source. More on that in [mentioned vs recommended](/blog/category/ai-visibility-metrics). - **Ten engine models.** ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are on by default with web search, and every prompt runs twice per engine. - **Your schedule.** Reports can run once, daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly. - **Every answer reproducible.** Each answer is kept word for word with its exact prompt, so anyone on your team can paste it into ChatGPT or Claude and check it. - **Metrics that matter.** Your monthly report tracks citation share, mention rate and LLM recall frequency. - **AI bots on your site.** We recognise 170+ AI crawlers, log which pages AI bots read, and capture AI-referred visits that GA4 misses. ### Why we work off-site too - **Mentions track with AI visibility.** In Ahrefs' study of 75,000 brands, web mentions had the strongest link to visibility in Google's AI Overviews, a 0.664 correlation against 0.218 for backlinks. Ahrefs itself says [correlation is not causation](https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-overview-brand-correlation/). - **Good pages still count.** Google's guidance says there are [no special optimizations](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features) needed for AI Overviews or AI Mode beyond normal SEO practice. So we do both. We build solid pages on your site, and we earn mentions on the sites AI already trusts. ## OnlyAEO vs Profound, side by side OnlyAEO is an AEO platform that also creates the content, and our team can run it for you; Profound is software your team runs. | | OnlyAEO | Profound | |---|---|---| | **Who does the work** | Our team can run the platform for you; you approve every piece | Your own team operates the software | | **What you get each month** | Analytics, articles, videos, languages, mentions, site health check | Platform access for your team | | **Content** | Researched articles in your voice and design | Agents draft and publish approved content to your CMS | | **Videos** | YouTube videos planned, scripted and packaged | Your team's job | | **Other languages** | Almost any language, same checks as English | Your team's job | | **Mentions on other sites** | Earn-citation list with a play per site, plus drafted posts | Agency partners such as iPullRank, Avenue Z and Greenpark | | **Measurement** | Ten engine models, recommendations counted, answers reproducible, daily to quarterly | Daily tracking, and up to 9 engines on Enterprise per its pricing page | | **Brand data before writing** | Context Graph joining Search Console, your CMS, Google Drive and Docs, Slack, Gmail, YouTube and decks | Set up by your team | | **Checks before publishing** | Five checks, ending in human approval | Human approval on every Agent run | | **Getting started** | Free AI visibility audit in 48 hours | Instant setup, per its FAQ | | **Security** | SOC 2 Type II, four roles, tenant isolation, encrypted keys | SOC 2 Type II, SSO, role-based access | | **Working rhythm** | Monthly report, creation, review together, next plan | Set by your team | | **Best for** | Teams that want the work done, without new hires | Teams with in-house people to run a platform daily | ## Keep Profound and add the platform that acts on it If you already use Profound, you don't have to choose. Keep it, and let our team act on what it shows you. The OnlyAEO content engine imports any AI visibility report, Profound reports included, as PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, HTML, Markdown, plain text or a share link, and parses it in 20 to 60 seconds. The gaps in that report become the OnlyAEO brief. We turn them into articles, videos and listings for you to approve. Next month's report shows whether they worked. ## When Profound fits better - **You have an in-house team** with time to run a platform every day. - **You want daily tracking across many engines**, including Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot. - **You run AI search ads** and want them in the same place. ## When OnlyAEO fits better - **You want the work done for you.** On a managed plan, our team runs the platform, researches, writes, publishes and earns mentions, and you approve every piece. - **You want to see proof first.** FastTrackr AI went from 0.1% visibility to the number 3 most-cited brand in its category in about 100 days. - **You want more than articles.** Videos, other languages and mentions on trusted sites come with OnlyAEO's managed plans. - **You want content grounded in your own data** through a Context Graph, with five checks before anything goes live. - **You want a team you can reach.** A dedicated team, a regular review together, and always a call or a message away. - **You want an honest timeline.** First measurable results usually take at least 60 days, and you see progress in every monthly report. ## Frequently asked questions ### Do I need Profound if I work with OnlyAEO? No. OnlyAEO includes monthly AI visibility analytics as part of the platform, so you can work with us without another tool. If you already use another tool and like it, keep it. We will work from its reports. ### What does OnlyAEO do that Profound doesn't? The main difference is what the platform covers and who runs it. With Profound, your own team operates the software. OnlyAEO tracks AI answers and creates the content to change them, and our team can run it for you while you approve each piece. That work includes YouTube videos, articles in other languages and mentions on trusted sites, built on a Context Graph of your brand data. ### Can OnlyAEO use my Profound reports? Yes. The OnlyAEO content engine imports Profound reports as PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, HTML, Markdown, plain text or a share link, and parses them in 20 to 60 seconds. The gaps in the report become the plan for our team. ### How fast will we see results? First measurable results usually take at least 60 days. Your monthly report shows where AI engines name you along the way, so you can see progress before then.