The Profound alternative for teams selling to local businesses

Profound is built for brands analysing their own AI presence. Insites is built for teams that sell to local businesses.

Profound gives brands deep analytics on how AI answers talk about them, priced by the prompts and AI engines you track. Insites audits a prospect's entire online presence, AI visibility included, and turns it into one clear score your team can sell with, built for markets of thousands of small businesses.

Analytics vs selling

Where Profound gives marketing teams deep AEO analytics, Insites shows a local business why they need to act

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Result
Category
AI Visibility
NEEDS WORK
AI Visibility Audit
Local Rankings
3 keywords down
Local SEO
Mobile Speed
Pass
Performance
GDPR Compliance
ISSUES FOUND
Compliance
Social Profiles
Pass
Social Media
E-E-A-T Signals
NEEDS WORK
SEO
Accessibility
12 issues
ADA / WCAG

Insites vs Profound

Profound
Sales enablement
Paige, AI sales coach in every audit
White-labelled, client-ready reports
Audit designer (drag-and-drop)
Add your own manual checks
Lead generation widget (embeddable)
Agency proposal generator
AI email generator
Sales-friendly scores for non-technical reps
Batch auditing (up to 10,000)
Prospecting at scale
Audit capabilities
Whole-online-presence audit in one score
Full website & technical SEO audit
AI visibility checks (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok)
Daily AI prompt tracking & sentiment
Audit-based
Local map rank grid (geo-grid)
Google keyword rank tracking
Competitor analysis
Business listings audit
Online reviews & reputation
Social media detection
Ads detection (Google Ads, Facebook Ads)
Accessibility audit (ADA, WCAG)
GDPR / CCPA compliance check
Speed & Core Web Vitals
Setup & ease of use
Zero-setup audits (no prompts to configure)
Integrations & automation
CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot)
REST API
Enterprise only
MCP server for AI agents
Webhook automation
Not published
Generate AI websites (via Duda)

The information in this comparison is correct as far as we can ascertain from Profound's public marketing materials as of July 2026. To notify us of a correction, please email support@insites.com.

Products

What can Insites help my team sell?

We don't just stop at SEO. The Insites platform has checks for local SEO, listing management, websites and more.

We are the all-in-one sales and marketing audit tool that helps your sales agents sell digital marketing products.

Local SEO & listings
Google Ads & Facebook Ads
SEO
Social media management
Video
Websites
Accessibility solutions (ADA, WCAG)
Review management
Data Compliance (GDPR, CCPA)
Online booking

Can Insites help your team sell digital marketing at scale?

Yes, Insites is specifically designed to help our partners sell digital marketing at scale. Our audits and services help you streamline lead generation, sales processes, and client management, enabling your business to expand its reach and efficiency.

The all-in-one audit that increases average order value

Profound focuses on AI search analytics for brands. Insites brings AI visibility, local SEO, website health, Google Ads, social media, reviews, accessibility, and compliance into a single audit. By surfacing opportunities across every channel in one place, your team can recommend multiple products and increase deal size with every conversation.

Audits tailored to your brand and offering

Choose which audit checks you want to include and drag and drop the ones that match the solutions you sell. Then white-label the audit to reflect your branding, with every step tuned for a sales conversation, not an analytics review.

Easy-to-grasp scores that drive the sale

Profound gives AEO teams rich prompt-level analytics. Insites turns that complexity into simple, colour-coded scores and plain-language recommendations your sales reps can use to create urgency with any prospect, no AI search knowledge required.

Social proof

Trusted by digital marketing providers worldwide

HEROLD logo

“Our new AI-Check quickly proved its value. We've rolled it out as a core lead engine and saw measurable results within three weeks - generating qualified leads at up to 30% lower cost per lead.”

Christian Wawer
Christian Wawer
Head of Marketing, HEROLD
ZIP.ch logo

“We manage a large portfolio of clients across web development, SEO and advertising, and Insites has become essential to our daily workflow. The automated audits give us a clear overview of each client - work that used to take hours to compile by hand.”

Sandro Pantarotto
Sandro Pantarotto
Digital Operations Manager, ZIP.ch
ConsumrBuzz logo

“The combination of Insites' technical SEO tools and AI Visibility scan has been a game changer for our agency - helping us uncover opportunities and build smarter client strategies in the growing AI space.”

Olivia from ConsumrBuzz
Olivia F.
ConsumrBuzz
Cogent Analytics logo

“I introduced Insites to my team and everyone saw how valuable it is - not just for selling, but for streamlining our QA. We've even implemented it as a lead-gen tool on our own website.”

Crystal Rucker
Crystal Rucker
Marketing Account Manager, Cogent Analytics
HEROLD logo

“Our new AI-Check quickly proved its value. We've rolled it out as a core lead engine and saw measurable results within three weeks - generating qualified leads at up to 30% lower cost per lead.”

Christian Wawer
Christian Wawer
Head of Marketing, HEROLD
ZIP.ch logo

“We manage a large portfolio of clients across web development, SEO and advertising, and Insites has become essential to our daily workflow. The automated audits give us a clear overview of each client - work that used to take hours to compile by hand.”

Sandro Pantarotto
Sandro Pantarotto
Digital Operations Manager, ZIP.ch
ConsumrBuzz logo

“The combination of Insites' technical SEO tools and AI Visibility scan has been a game changer for our agency - helping us uncover opportunities and build smarter client strategies in the growing AI space.”

Olivia from ConsumrBuzz
Olivia F.
ConsumrBuzz
Cogent Analytics logo

“I introduced Insites to my team and everyone saw how valuable it is - not just for selling, but for streamlining our QA. We've even implemented it as a lead-gen tool on our own website.”

Crystal Rucker
Crystal Rucker
Marketing Account Manager, Cogent Analytics
HEROLD logo

“Our new AI-Check quickly proved its value. We've rolled it out as a core lead engine and saw measurable results within three weeks - generating qualified leads at up to 30% lower cost per lead.”

Christian Wawer
Christian Wawer
Head of Marketing, HEROLD
ZIP.ch logo

“We manage a large portfolio of clients across web development, SEO and advertising, and Insites has become essential to our daily workflow. The automated audits give us a clear overview of each client - work that used to take hours to compile by hand.”

Sandro Pantarotto
Sandro Pantarotto
Digital Operations Manager, ZIP.ch
ConsumrBuzz logo

“The combination of Insites' technical SEO tools and AI Visibility scan has been a game changer for our agency - helping us uncover opportunities and build smarter client strategies in the growing AI space.”

Olivia from ConsumrBuzz
Olivia F.
ConsumrBuzz
Cogent Analytics logo

“I introduced Insites to my team and everyone saw how valuable it is - not just for selling, but for streamlining our QA. We've even implemented it as a lead-gen tool on our own website.”

Crystal Rucker
Crystal Rucker
Marketing Account Manager, Cogent Analytics
Gargle logo

“We've literally doubled the size of our business in the last couple of years since using Insites.”

Jake Goates
Jake Goates
CMO & Board Member, Gargle
Overt Digital Media logo

“Insites has become one of the most effective sales tools in our arsenal - helping us not just find leads, but close them. We show prospects real issues they didn't even know existed, which builds trust fast.”

Jon R.
Jon R.
Overt Digital Media
Townsquare Interactive logo

“My favourite is the ChatGPT scan that shows a small business's AI optimisation status. It takes a 10–20 minute research phase and distils it into a single robust report - making our sales reps appear as experts faster.”

Brett B.
Brett B.
Townsquare
AdCellerant logo

“Almost-instantaneous audits without our team preparing them by hand - and the Salesforce integration lets our sales reps run reports on demand, without waiting on anyone else.”

Lee-ann D.
Lee-ann D.
AdCellerant
Gargle logo

“We've literally doubled the size of our business in the last couple of years since using Insites.”

Jake Goates
Jake Goates
CMO & Board Member, Gargle
Overt Digital Media logo

“Insites has become one of the most effective sales tools in our arsenal - helping us not just find leads, but close them. We show prospects real issues they didn't even know existed, which builds trust fast.”

Jon R.
Jon R.
Overt Digital Media
Townsquare Interactive logo

“My favourite is the ChatGPT scan that shows a small business's AI optimisation status. It takes a 10–20 minute research phase and distils it into a single robust report - making our sales reps appear as experts faster.”

Brett B.
Brett B.
Townsquare
AdCellerant logo

“Almost-instantaneous audits without our team preparing them by hand - and the Salesforce integration lets our sales reps run reports on demand, without waiting on anyone else.”

Lee-ann D.
Lee-ann D.
AdCellerant
Gargle logo

“We've literally doubled the size of our business in the last couple of years since using Insites.”

Jake Goates
Jake Goates
CMO & Board Member, Gargle
Overt Digital Media logo

“Insites has become one of the most effective sales tools in our arsenal - helping us not just find leads, but close them. We show prospects real issues they didn't even know existed, which builds trust fast.”

Jon R.
Jon R.
Overt Digital Media
Townsquare Interactive logo

“My favourite is the ChatGPT scan that shows a small business's AI optimisation status. It takes a 10–20 minute research phase and distils it into a single robust report - making our sales reps appear as experts faster.”

Brett B.
Brett B.
Townsquare
AdCellerant logo

“Almost-instantaneous audits without our team preparing them by hand - and the Salesforce integration lets our sales reps run reports on demand, without waiting on anyone else.”

Lee-ann D.
Lee-ann D.
AdCellerant

Frequently asked questions

What is Insites used for?

Insites is a sales enablement platform built for agencies, media companies, and digital marketing providers who sell services to local businesses. It runs a full-presence audit across 200+ data points (covering SEO, local search, social media, ads, accessibility, AI visibility, and compliance), and presents the results as simple, colour-coded scores that create urgency in a sales conversation.

It's designed for teams that need to find leads, explain digital marketing gaps to non-technical prospects, and close deals.

How is Insites different from Profound?

Profound is a specialist AI-visibility platform. It gives brand marketing teams deep analytics on what people ask AI systems, how answer engines represent the brand, and how AI crawlers interact with their site, across platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and Google AI Overviews.

Insites is built for sales teams. It runs a full-presence audit in under 60 seconds and presents results as simple scores a non-technical prospect can instantly understand. That covers AI visibility as well as website health, local SEO, social, ads, accessibility, and compliance in one branded output.

The easiest way to think about it: Insites helps you win the client. A platform like Profound helps a brand's marketing team analyse its own AI presence.

How much does Profound cost?

Profound's self-serve plans are priced by how many prompts you track and how many AI engines you cover, starting with single-engine tracking on the entry tier. Full multi-engine coverage and multi-brand packages come through custom Enterprise plans quoted on a demo call.

Insites is priced for teams selling digital marketing to local businesses at volume. Book a demo and we'll talk you through pricing for your team on the first call.

Does Insites track AI visibility?

Yes. Insites checks whether AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok surface a business, and rolls the result into the same simple score as the rest of the audit. There are no prompts to set up, so a rep can show a prospect their AI-search gap without having to explain how it works.

Does Insites have local SEO and map-based ranking grids?

Yes. Insites includes a Local Ranking Grid that shows a prospect exactly where they rank across their service area on a map. It's automatically sized around the business and uses keywords chosen for them, with no grid configuration or keyword setup required, so a rep can generate it in seconds and a business owner can see the gaps on a map of their own town.

Does Insites integrate with CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot?

Yes. Insites was built to sit inside your sales stack. It connects natively to Salesforce and HubSpot, plus via API and webhooks to proposal builders, marketing automation tools, and any other system your team already uses. Audit data flows into your pipeline automatically.

Can I customise which checks appear in my audits?

Yes. The Audit Designer lets you drag-and-drop to choose which checks to include, remove anything that's not relevant to the services you sell, add manual checks for things like design or brand consistency, and rearrange the order to match your sales conversation flow.

Can Insites help with batch prospecting at scale?

Yes. You can audit up to 10,000 businesses in one go, and millions more on request. Insites analyses 200+ digital marketing signals across every business, then uses AI filtering to help you sort, segment, and target the hottest leads. It's designed for teams that need to find their best opportunities across large business lists, not one site at a time.

Who should choose Profound instead?

If you're a brand-side marketing team that needs deep answer-engine analytics, prompt volume data, and crawler insights for your own domain, Profound is a serious specialist platform built for exactly that.

If your job is to sell digital marketing services to local businesses, you need audits that find prospects, create urgency, and close deals. That's the workflow Insites is built for, with AI visibility included alongside everything else.

Do you offer a free trial or demo?

Yes, but we need to know a bit about you first to make sure we can give you the best experience during the trial. You can book a demo and request a free strategy call. If you would like to trial Insites in your organisation, we are happy to talk you through options during the demo call.

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