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Priorityall 2high 1medium 1

Siteall 1elsewhere 1

Gapall 4documentation 3third-party 1

Setall 1Getting recommended instead of a competitor 1

Get Popcorn added to airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives as the open-source option medium third-party effort M flips 2 Getting recommended instead of a competitor

Where: https://airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives
Must say: Pitch AirOps to include Popcorn as the open-source, self-hosted alternative to Profound. Emphasise the ranked fix list naming page, content, target prompts and owner, plus the MIT license and single Docker container.
Done when: The AirOps page names Popcorn, and prompt 20 on the search track names Popcorn as a Profound alternative.
Displaces: https://airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives
Why: P20 claude-code-opus search: top pick AthenaHQ, shaped by airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives, scrunch-alternatives and athenahq-alternatives.

Prompt for Claude Code
# Get Popcorn added to airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives as the open-source option

When buyers ask an AI assistant the questions below, it doesn't recommend us, or recommends us for the wrong reasons. This is a third-party gap: the roundups and comparisons the model reads leave us out.

## The questions it affects
- AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise?
- Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank?

## What the assistant said
P20 claude-code-opus search: top pick AthenaHQ, shaped by airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives, scrunch-alternatives and athenahq-alternatives.

## Who wins the question today
https://airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives. Read it and make sure our version answers everything it does, better.

## Your task
We need to be included on https://airops.com/blog/profound-alternatives. Read that page first, work out the right way in (editor contact, submission form, PR, comments), and draft exactly what to send: a short, factual pitch covering the points below, in the page's own format.

## What it must say
Pitch AirOps to include Popcorn as the open-source, self-hosted alternative to Profound. Emphasise the ranked fix list naming page, content, target prompts and owner, plus the MIT license and single Docker container.

## Done when
The AirOps page names Popcorn, and prompt 20 on the search track names Popcorn as a Profound alternative.

## Rules
- Don't invent numbers, benchmarks, prices, capabilities or customer names. Where a fact is needed and you can't find it in the repo or on our site, leave a clearly marked TODO saying exactly what to measure or who to ask.
- Answer the questions above directly and early on the page, in the words buyers use. AI assistants quote pages that state the answer plainly.
- Keep it scoped to this one fix. When you're done, summarise what you changed and list any TODOs.

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