Profound Citation Gap Analysis agent

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Profound Citation Gap Analysis is an Optimizely Opal agent that analyzes AI citation performance for any topic using Profound's visibility data.

  • Challenge – Identifying citation gaps and determining blog topics to prioritize based on AI citation performance against competitors across platforms like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google AI is difficult.
  • Agent outcome – The agent produces a citation gap report showing share of voice against key competitors across AI platforms, with prioritized blog topic recommendations.
  • Value – The agent makes it easy to identify citation gaps and determine blog topics to prioritize, improving content strategy and visibility in AI-powered search.

Required Optimizely products

None.

Prerequisites

Install agent

Opal Administrators, Agent Builders, and Opal Users with the Add, edit, and install specialized agents  attribute for a custom role can add agents to their organization's Optimizely Opal instance. See Add users and set permissions.

Install the agent from the Opal Agent Directory.

  1. Go to Agents > Agent Directory.
  2. Select Profound Citation Gap Analysis.

  3. Click Install Agent to add it to your Opal instance.

    screenshot of the Profound Citation Gap Analysis entry in the Opal Agent Directory where Install Agent is highlighted

Use the agent

In Opal Chat, enter @profound_citation_gap_analysis and provide the following details:

  • Topic – Topic to be audited for AI citations.
  • (Optional) Report Period – Period to audit content citation, such as Last 7 days or December 2025.

The agent delivers a citation gap report in a canvas, displaying share of voice, platform distribution, citation gaps, and prioritized blog topic recommendations.

To use the Profound Citation Gap Analysis agent in a workflow agent, drag and drop it into your workflow. See Create a workflow agent.

Details

These are the default details for the Profound Citation Gap Analysis agent. After you install the agent in your Opal instance, customize these details for your organization's needs. See Manage agents for instructions.

Input variables

The Profound Citation Gap Analysis agent takes the following input:

  • Topic
  • (Optional) Report Period

Tools

The Profound Citation Gap Analysis agent uses the following tools internally to process your request:

  • profound_visibility_report
  • profound_get_categories
  • profound_get_domains
  • profound_raw_answers
  • profound_citation_report
  • browse_web
  • browse_web_html
  • search_web
  • create_canvas
  • convert_to_pdf

Additional details

The agent uses the following default configuration:

  • Inference level – Pro. Provides maximum reasoning depth.
  • Files – None.
  • Output – Text.

If you use Opti ID, administrators can turn off generative AI in the Opti ID Admin Center. See Turn generative AI off across Optimizely applications.