Customers don't Google blue links to decide what to buy anymore. They ask ChatGPT. Google currently drives $2.4 trillion of commerce. In 5 years, $1 trillion of that will shift to ChatGPT. Becoming ChatGPT's #1 recommendation could be worth $100M+ to your business. Here's what should terrify every CEO: - ChatGPT hit 700M weekly users, growing 4X year-over-year - 47% of consumers already use answer engines like ChatGPT to research purchases - ChatGPT handles 1 billion+ queries daily (1/8th of Google) - At current growth rates, AI assistants will drive 30% of all product decisions by 2029 If your company generates >$1M from SEO, you're facing an existential threat: ranking #1 on Google will soon be as relevant as ranking #1 in the Yellow Pages. Here's the paradigm shift: In the SEO era, you optimized articles to rank for keywords. But answer engines don't crawl your SEO-optimized pages. They form opinions from authentic discussions on Reddit, niche forums, and community blogs. The brands dominating these conversations become their default recommendations. Every company built on SEO is about to watch its distribution channel evaporate. That's why we built @tryprofound: the generative engine optimization (GEO) platform that gives you control over how your brand is being discovered across all answer engines like ChatGPT. Today, I'm thrilled to announce our $35M Series B led by @sequoia, with continued backing from @kleinerperkins, @khoslaventures, @Saga_Ventures, and @southpkcommons. In under 12 months, over 2,000 marketers at companies like Ramp, US Bank, Indeed, MongoDB, DocuSign, and Chime have used Profound to: - Monitor how answer engines describe their brand - Identify which Reddit threads and forums shape AI opinions in their category - Drive up to 700% increases in AI referrals - Generate six-figure revenue directly from AI recommendations Today, we're launching a game-changing update: Workflows. - Profound identifies which forums and communities answer engines reference for your industry. - Workflows then automatically create authentic, valuable content for the platforms most relevant for you to be picked up by answer engines like ChatGPT. - The $2.4 trillion commerce pie isn't growing as much as it's being redistributed. From SEO to GEO.