Josh Blyskal

Josh Blyskal

Head of AI Strategy

Profound

Josh Blyskal leads AI strategy and research at Profound, which he joined as its second employee and a member of the founding team. He works with brands on how they appear in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI products and other answer engines, using large-scale research and real user prompts to see which questions include a brand, which comparisons exclude it, and whether agents can reach the product information they need. He has contributed to AEO programmes for teams at Ramp, Indeed, U.S. Bank, G2, MongoDB and Golin. Before Profound, he worked at HubSpot, where he co-founded its Marketing AI practice and built the AI Search Grader, used by more than 100,000 marketers.