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Conecta Media vs. Profound
Profound is a dashboard built for marketing teams who track a lot of prompts over time. We do one fixed-price implementation for a local trade business. Here is where each one actually fits, priced as of September 2026.
What Profound actually does
A dashboard for a team that already has someone watching it.
As of September 2026, Profound's Starter plan runs $99 a month and lists "ChatGPT tracking only" as its first feature. The Growth plan runs $399 a month and is marked "Popular" on Profound's own pricing page. Enterprise pricing is custom, built for larger companies and agencies through a demo call.
That shape, a login, a list of prompts you set up, charts that move week to week, fits a company that already pays someone whose job is to read it. A one-person HVAC shop or a roofing crew running from a truck usually does not have that person.
Side by side, priced today
Same question, two different products built to answer it.
| Profound | Conecta Media | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (as of September 2026) | $99 to $399 a month, Enterprise custom | $397 once for the pilot, $297 a month after if you want it |
| ChatGPT coverage | ChatGPT tracking on the $99 Starter plan | ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, every check |
| What it does | Tracks prompts you set up, shows share of voice and citations in a dashboard | Asks six buyer questions live, reports who got named and who got named instead |
| Who runs it | Built for a marketing team that logs in and reads the dashboard | We read it for you; you get pages written in plain English |
| Setup | You configure prompts and connect the dashboard yourself | No setup for the free check; the pilot includes the fixes on your site |
| Proof of change | Ongoing charts you watch over time | A day 14 re-run of the same six questions, before and after |
When Profound is the better choice
Some businesses should pick the dashboard, not us.
Profound makes sense for a brand with an in-house marketing team and enough prompts to make a dashboard worth the login. If you already publish content on a schedule, watch share of voice across dozens of prompts, and have staff whose job is to react to those charts, Profound's $99 to $399 a month range, Enterprise priced by demo, as of September 2026, buys real ongoing tracking software built for that job.
We are not that. We are one person, Jorge, a software engineer, running Conecta Media LLC out of Chicago. We do not sell a dashboard for a team to log into. We serve HVAC, roofing, plumbing, garage door, windows and doors, landscaping, auto repair, and electrical businesses in Illinois, in English and Spanish, and we do the implementation ourselves.
What we check instead
A first look you can read in minutes, then a fix if you need one.
The free check at /ai-check/ reads the business's own home page, its robots.txt, and its llms.txt if one exists. It writes six questions a local buyer would actually ask for that trade and area, then asks them on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with live web search turned on. It reports whether the business was named, who was named instead, and which directories got quoted. It checks whether robots.txt blocks the crawlers those assistants use to read a site, and it can compare one competitor side by side on the same six answers. There is no email gate and no sign-in, the result page can be shared, and an emailed copy is optional. It runs in English or Spanish.
OpenAI has licensed Yelp reviews, ratings, and business details into ChatGPT answers since July 23, 2026 (Search Engine Land). That means what your Yelp listing says now feeds directly into what ChatGPT can say about your business, on top of whatever your own site says.
If the free check turns up missed questions, the AI visibility pilot is the fix over 14 days: one page written for each missed buyer question, business data the assistants can actually read (LocalBusiness or Service schema with your service area, the same facts repeated on your contact page), crawler access corrected, your listings made consistent, and the same six questions asked again on day 14 so you see a before and after in writing. No one, including us, can promise what an assistant will say. Answers change over time. The day 14 re-run is the proof we can offer, not a guarantee.
We looked at 32 tools that touch this space, dashboards like Profound included. Ours is the only fixed-price implementation under $500. Every other "we fix it" offer we found starts at $799 a month, and audits that diagnose but do not touch your site run $200 to $2,497.
See the full list in our tools roundup, or read the same kind of comparison built against Otterly and the other Otterly alternatives we looked at. The AI search optimization checklist covers what we actually fix, step by step. All of this lives on the AI SEO hub.
Questions owners ask
Short answers, no hedging beyond what we actually know.
Is Profound built for a local trade business?
Not really. Profound is priced and built for a marketing team tracking a lot of prompts over time. A one-person shop usually does not have someone to log in and read the dashboard every week.
How much does Profound cost as of September 2026?
Starter is $99 a month with ChatGPT tracking only. Growth is $399 a month. Enterprise is custom, priced through a demo call.
What does the free check show that a dashboard does not?
It reads your actual site today, asks six real buyer questions on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with live search, and tells you in plain language whether you were named. No login, no email gate.
Do you compete directly with Profound?
Not exactly. Profound sells ongoing tracking software to marketing teams. We sell a fixed-price implementation, and an optional monthly membership if you want a recurring read after that. Different job.
What if I later want ongoing monitoring like Profound offers?
The Stay Named membership, $297 a month as of September 2026, re-asks twelve questions every month and adds one new answer page a month. It is not a dashboard. It is a monthly read on your business's actual answers.
Questions owners ask
Short answers, no promises.
Is Profound built for a local trade business?
Not really. Profound is priced and built for a marketing team tracking a lot of prompts over time. A one-person shop usually does not have someone to log in and read the dashboard every week.
How much does Profound cost as of September 2026?
Starter is $99 a month with ChatGPT tracking only. Growth is $399 a month. Enterprise is custom, priced through a demo call.
What does the free check show that a dashboard does not?
It reads your actual site today, asks six real buyer questions on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with live search, and tells you in plain language whether you were named. No login, no email gate.
Do you compete directly with Profound?
Not exactly. Profound sells ongoing tracking software to marketing teams. We sell a fixed-price implementation, and an optional monthly membership if you want a recurring read after that. Different job.
What if I later want ongoing monitoring like Profound offers?
The Stay Named membership, $297 a month as of September 2026, re-asks twelve questions every month and adds one new answer page a month. It is not a dashboard. It is a monthly read on your business's actual answers.
See where you stand first
Run the check before you pay for either one.
It takes a few minutes, reads your real site, and tells you whether you are already named on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity today. If it turns up gaps, the $397 AI visibility pilot fixes them in 14 days, as of September 2026, with a before and after in writing.
Full pricing, including the Stay Named membership, is at /pricing/.