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§ /vs/profound · honest comparison

Nyman Media vs Profound.

Profound is an AI brand-mention tracker. It monitors how your brand is described across answers in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and AI Overviews.

Profound and Nyman Media solve different problems. Profound tracks how your brand shows up across answers in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Nyman Media tells you whether your site's structure, schema, and crawlability actually allow those models to find and parse you in the first place.

Both layers matter, and Nyman Media now covers part of the second. Our AI visibility snapshot runs buyer-intent questions on demand and reports your brand mention rate, share-of-voice vs named competitors, and average position in one shot. We do not run continuous monitoring or change alerts. Run the audit and the snapshot to fix the foundation and get a same-session read on whether you show up. Continuous tracking is a separate category we don't ship today.

§ side-by-side
featurenyman mediaprofound
What it measuresWhether AI crawlers and LLMs can find, parse, and represent your site (92 deterministic checks across 9 sections + a vision-grounded UX audit)Whether your brand appears in LLM answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and what those answers say about you
OutputScore 0–100, section breakdown, fix recommendations, public certificate at /site/[domain]Brand mention frequency, sentiment, prompt coverage, share-of-voice over time
Free tierYes: 1 audit/day, no signup needed, public certificate generated automaticallyDemo / trial gated by sales contact
Pricing$19/mo (or $190/yr, 2 months free). Self-serve.Enterprise: talk to sales
AI answer visibilityOn-demand snapshot: brand mention rate, share-of-voice vs competitors, average position, one run at a timeContinuous multi-LLM monitoring with sentiment, prompt-volume, and share-of-voice over time
Developer surfaceREST API, CLI (nmav), MCP server (Claude/Cursor/ChatGPT)Web app + dashboards
Public artifactsEvery audit is a citable URL with embed snippets and OG cardInternal dashboards
Workspaces / SSO / SOC2No: single-user accounts onlyYes: enterprise-ready
§ when to use profound
  • You already know your site is technically AI-ready and want to measure outcomes
  • You need brand-mention tracking, sentiment, and prompt-volume analytics
  • You're at the budget tier where SOC2 + SSO + dedicated CSM matter
  • You're tracking competitive share-of-voice across multiple brands and prompts

See Profound

§ when to use nyman media
  • You want to know whether AI crawlers can read your site at all
  • You need a free, frictionless first audit with no sales call
  • You ship in a CI/CD pipeline and want exit-code-based deploy gates
  • You want a public certificate per audited domain for backlinks / shareability
  • You use Claude Desktop, Cursor, or ChatGPT desktop and want audits via MCP

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§ the honest take

Start here. Run a free audit to fix the input side, then run our AI visibility snapshot to see your mention rate, share-of-voice, and average position across buyer-intent questions in a single pass. That covers most teams. We don't ship continuous tracking or change alerts. There's no point tracking citation share for a site AI crawlers can't reach, so the order is foundation first, snapshot next.

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