Skip to main content
Discovery tools resolve human-readable context, such as an organization, category, domain, region, AI model, tag, or topic, into the IDs the other Profound MCP tools take as inputs. Most conversations start here: the assistant confirms what you can access, finds the right scope, and then passes the resolved IDs to other tools. To connect your MCP client to the hosted server, refer to the Connection guides.

​
Behavior and safety

All discovery tools are read-only. They retrieve reference data, but don’t create, update, or delete anything in Profound. All discovery tools set the following MCP hints:

​
Discovery tools

Confirms the authenticated user, organizations, regions, and entitlements available to this MCP session.Example prompts:
  • “Which Profound account am I signed in as?”
  • “What organizations and regions can I see?”
Inputs: none.
Lists the organizations the authenticated user can access. Returned IDs feed category, domain, and report tools.Example prompts:
  • “Which organizations can I pull Profound data from?”
Inputs: none.
Lists geographic regions configured for an organization.Example prompts:
  • “Which regions do we track?”
Inputs
Lists the AI models Profound tracks. Returned model IDs filter reports to a single engine.Example prompts:
  • “Which AI models does Profound track?”
Inputs: none.
Lists tracked categories, markets, or segments in an organization. Most brand visibility reports are scoped to a category.Example prompts:
  • “What categories are we tracking?”
Inputs
Lists tracked domains for an organization. Domains are exact hostnames, so www.example.com and example.com are distinct.Example prompts:
  • “Which of our domains does Profound track traffic for?”
Inputs
Lists tags available within a category for filtering prompts and reports.Example prompts:
  • “What tags exist in the Banking category?”
Inputs
Lists topics available within a category for filtering prompts and reports.Example prompts:
  • “What topics do we track under Banking?”
Inputs