# How 1840 & Company uses Profound

**11%** AI visibility for remote staffing related prompts

As published on [tryprofound.com](https://www.tryprofound.com/customers/1840-co-answer-engine-optimization-case-study). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-08.

- Company: [1840 & Company](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/1840-company.md)
- Tool: [Profound](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/profound.md)
- Industry: [HR & Recruiting](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/hr-recruiting-hr-tech.md)

## The use case: how 1840 & Company deploys Profound

1840 & Co. uses Profound to track how often AI answer engines cite its brand for remote staffing queries, analyze which content formats get cited, and benchmark against competitors. It used these insights to publish a targeted blog post and then monitor the effect on its AI visibility.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Profound and 1840 & Company, not ours.

> Insight: In just two weeks, visibility jumped from 0% to 6%. By the end of the month, it climbed to 11%—making 1840 & Co. one of the top five players cited by AI-driven searches in their space.

- **6%**: “In just two weeks, visibility jumped from 0% to 6%.”

> Profound has given us actionable insights on how our brand is performing for GEO. It's exciting to see our visibility going up and which citations are affecting the score. Using Profound, I can start to get a good idea of how and what to do to improve our GEO.
>
> Jay Douglas, Marketing Director at 1840 & Company

Source: [tryprofound.com](https://www.tryprofound.com/customers/1840-co-answer-engine-optimization-case-study), captured 2026-10-08.

## Profound users in HR & Recruiting

- [LinkedIn](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/linkedin.md) — Observed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-08.

- Checked: the figure 11% is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of 1840 & Company.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: 1840 & Company uses Profound. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-18.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/1840-company-profound · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology