{"slug":"tryprofound-f58sg4","companyName":"Profound","domain":"tryprofound.com","url":"https://tryprofound.com","headline":"A product with published pricing and a one-field signup, but no API documentation or self-serve credentials for agents to integrate.","compositeScore":72,"humanScore":78,"agentScore":65,"doorGap":13,"humanMeasured":4,"agentMeasured":6,"percentile":97,"humanPercentile":69,"agentPercentile":97,"isPartial":false,"depth":"free","siteClass":"b2b_saas","scannerVersion":12,"scannedAt":"2026-09-08T14:49:36.128Z","unlocked":false,"mission":{"steps":[{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"ok","purpose":"reach the site at all"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com/robots.txt","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find out whether machines are welcome"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"ok","purpose":"ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com/llms.txt","outcome":"missing","purpose":"read the site's own guide for language models"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com/sitemap.xml","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find out what pages exist"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com/.well-known/security.txt","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find a contact route for machines"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.comhttps://docs.tryprofound.com/.well-known/mcp.json","outcome":"ok","purpose":"find a published agent interface"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find an agent plugin manifest"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find out whether verified agents are recognised"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"read the homepage as data rather than as a page"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a machine readable API spec"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"read the developer documentation"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing","outcome":"ok","purpose":"read the prices without running JavaScript"},{"url":"https://www.tryprofound.com","outcome":"missing","purpose":"find a comparison page worth citing"},{"url":"https://platform.tryprofound.com/welcome?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=homepage-primary-cta","outcome":"ok","purpose":"walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product"}],"verdict":"The agent got through 8 of 15 requests, but could not read the site's own guide for language models. It came up empty on 6 other checks too."},"observations":null,"dimensions":[{"key":"machine_discoverability","audience":"agent","score":88,"summary":"No AI crawler is blocked by robots.txt, a real browser is served the page normally, and the sitemap lists 411 URLs. However, the homepage carries no schema.org markup and /llms.txt is not published, so machines cannot infer what the.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"programmatic_onboarding","audience":"agent","score":10,"summary":"The documentation site at docs.tryprofound.com contains 2634 characters of text but shows no API credentials, endpoints, code samples, or authentication documentation.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"pricing_legibility","audience":"agent","score":85,"summary":"8 prices are readable in the homepage HTML without JavaScript, across three named tiers: Starter, Growth, and Enterprise. All prices are published; the Enterprise tier is not gated behind a demo request or sales contact form.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"agent_aware_instrumentation","audience":"agent","score":58,"summary":"An MCP manifest is published at https://docs.tryprofound.com/.well-known/mcp.json, enabling Claude and other MCP-aware agents to discover the service. No OpenAPI spec, ai-plugin.json, or OAuth authorization metadata is published.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"machine_fetchable_trust","audience":"agent","score":85,"summary":"security.txt is published at /.well-known/security.txt with a contact route for machines. The homepage responds to automated requests with HTTP 200 and serves content normally to a browser carrying an AI user agent.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"commercial_rails","audience":"agent","score":65,"summary":"Prices are published in raw HTML on the pricing page with no JavaScript required. A self-serve signup form is reachable from the homepage via the Get Started button.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"steps_to_first_value","audience":"human","score":80,"summary":"The Get Started button on the homepage leads to a signup form in 2 steps. The form asks for one field (email) and carries no payment requirement, so a visitor can create an account and access the product without friction.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"required_fields","audience":"human","score":85,"summary":"The signup form contains 1 field total, and 1 of 1 is required (email). No optional fields, phone numbers, company names, or verification codes are requested before account creation.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"verification_walls","audience":"human","score":65,"summary":"The signup page does not display email verification, SMS verification, or CAPTCHA requirements in the form itself. The walk could not observe what happens after submission, so verification may occur after the form is posted.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}},{"key":"error_recovery","audience":"human","score":80,"summary":"All 1 input field on the signup form carries a validation rule (email format). No inline error containers or live regions are present to guide users through correction, but the validation attribute itself enables browser-native error.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1}}],"issues":[{"rank":1,"title":"No comparison or alternatives page exists, which is the page an assistant cites when a buyer asks it to shortlist vendors.","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1},"fix":null},{"rank":2,"title":"No developer documentation is linked from the homepage, in raw HTML or the rendered page, so integration starts with a search engine.","dimensionKey":"programmatic_onboarding","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":1},"fix":null},{"rank":3,"title":"No comparison or alternatives page prevents agents from understanding how this product ranks against competitors when shortlisting vendors.","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3},"fix":null}],"fixArtifacts":{"locked":true,"count":7,"summaries":[{"id":"software_offer_jsonld:pricing-page","kind":"software_offer_jsonld","title":"Pricing as Offer structured data","path":"pricing page","effort":{"minutes":20,"role":"developer"},"outcome":{"dimension":"pricing_legibility","external":["Assistants comparing vendors read the plans and prices as Offer structured data."]}},{"id":"comparison_page_brief:compare-profound-vs-competitor","kind":"comparison_page_brief","title":"A comparison page brief","path":"/compare/profound-vs-competitor","effort":{"minutes":180,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["A server-rendered comparison page exists for an assistant to cite."]}},{"id":"robots_search_bots:robots-txt","kind":"robots_search_bots","title":"robots.txt rules for AI crawlers","path":"/robots.txt","effort":{"minutes":10,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["The assistants' search crawlers read and cite the site to buyers; training stays the owner's decision."]}},{"id":"interfaces_note:notes","kind":"interfaces_note","title":"Machine interfaces: where you stand","path":"notes","effort":{"minutes":10,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"agent_aware_instrumentation","external":["The developer surface is built in an order where every published pointer answers."]}},{"id":"pricing_md:pricing-md","kind":"pricing_md","title":"pricing.md","path":"/pricing.md","effort":{"minutes":20,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"agent_aware_instrumentation","external":["Agents read the price list directly instead of rendering the pricing page."]}},{"id":"organization_jsonld:homepage","kind":"organization_jsonld","title":"Organization structured data","path":"homepage","effort":{"minutes":15,"role":"developer"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["Search and assistant crawlers read the company entity from the homepage rather than inferring it."]}},{"id":"llms_txt:llms-txt","kind":"llms_txt","title":"llms.txt","path":"/llms.txt","effort":{"minutes":15,"role":"owner"},"outcome":{"dimension":"machine_discoverability","external":["Assistants that read llms.txt get a curated map of the site instead of guessing from the homepage."]}}]},"feedback":{"endpoint":"/api/feedback","mcpTool":"rate_fix","targets":[{"type":"report","key":"report"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","key":"dimension:machine_discoverability"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"programmatic_onboarding","key":"dimension:programmatic_onboarding"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"pricing_legibility","key":"dimension:pricing_legibility"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"agent_aware_instrumentation","key":"dimension:agent_aware_instrumentation"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"machine_fetchable_trust","key":"dimension:machine_fetchable_trust"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"commercial_rails","key":"dimension:commercial_rails"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"steps_to_first_value","key":"dimension:steps_to_first_value"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"required_fields","key":"dimension:required_fields"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"verification_walls","key":"dimension:verification_walls"},{"type":"dimension","dimensionKey":"error_recovery","key":"dimension:error_recovery"},{"type":"issue","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","checkId":"comparison_pages","key":"issue:machine_discoverability:comparison_pages"},{"type":"issue","dimensionKey":"programmatic_onboarding","checkId":"api_surface","key":"issue:programmatic_onboarding:api_surface"},{"type":"issue","dimensionKey":"machine_discoverability","checkId":null,"key":"issue:machine_discoverability:-"}]}}