AI agents: which PR tools have it? 30 tools, dated

Mira

Announced May 6, 2025.

Chat-based AI teammate combining AI agents and GenAI for media briefs, brand monitoring, competitive intelligence and reports.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Meltwater press release.

Adds Klear and Media Relations agents for creator vetting, reports and outreach follow-up

Announced Oct. 27, 2026.

Agents in Klear and Media Relations take on repetitive work such as vetting creators, building campaign reports and following up on media outreach.

Features: AI agents, Sending and follow-up.

Source: Meltwater press release.

Story Flow Agent (Mira Studio)

Available July 2026.

Plain-language request returns a cited brief on how a story started, spread and evolved.

Features: Coverage analysis, Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Meltwater product updates.

Mira Agent for Slack

Announced May 5, 2026.

Brings Mira into Slack to answer media questions and produce summaries, briefs and recaps.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Sources: Meltwater press release, Meltwater product updates.

Mira Studio Agents for Roundups, Briefings, and Coverage Reports

Available March 2026.

Purpose-built Mira agents that generate industry roundups, news briefings and coverage reports.

Features: Reporting and measurement, Coverage analysis, AI agents.

Source: Meltwater product updates.

AI Agent

Announced June 12, 2025.

Real-time AI agent that scans global media, decides relevance, and delivers structured alerts on emerging brand risk.

Features: AI agents.

Source: NewsWhip.

Trellis Monitoring Agent

Available Feb. 18, 2026.

Always-on agent that surfaces emerging stories early with analyst-quality updates.

Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring, AI agents.

Source: GlobeNewswire (Sprout Social).

Pressmaster.ai V4: agent team for thought leadership

Available Oct. 16, 2025.

V4 repositioned Pressmaster around an AI interview and a team of agents that research trends, plan a calendar and draft content from the user's own thinking.

Features: AI agents.

Sources: Product Hunt (Pressmaster.ai launches) and NetPartners webinar page, Product Hunt (Pressmaster.ai V4 launch page).

Adds reusable Intel Profiles for AI Agents and AI Feeds

Announced Nov. 26, 2025.

Users save context about competitors, brands and priorities once. Feedly's AI Agents and AI Feeds then reuse it without being told again.

Features: AI agents, Media monitoring.

Source: Feedly changelog.

Yeti Agent

Announced December 2025.

Agentic AI layer letting users ask complex questions and get insights via agentic reasoning and MCP server integrations; a separate vendor page (now titled 'Wisdom, Your Self-Driving Insights Partner') additionally describes visualizations and recommendations, and Yeti Agent is now sold under the Wisdom name.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Hootsuite blog (Talkwalker product update).

Adds Lumen Agent to Hootsuite's Wisdom assistant

Announced Oct. 7, 2026.

Hootsuite users can pick a Lumen agent inside Wisdom and get social-listening answers from Quick Search over the last 7 days, with citations, without a Lumen by Talkwalker account.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, Trend detection, Media monitoring.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

Wisdom, a social-first AI agent

Announced June 24, 2026.

Hootsuite launched Wisdom, a new social-first AI agent for social and business intelligence, connected directly to Lumen by Talkwalker.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Hootsuite newsroom.

Profound Workflows

Available Dec. 11, 2025. In beta.

Automation layer for content operations (public beta) - audit, analyze and optimize content at scale for the AI search era.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound (blog).

Teams with credit wallets, Context Manager overview, Bazaarvoice, Workfront

Available Oct. 23, 2026.

Profound added Teams, which give brands, regions or business units their own categories, shared resources and credit wallet, and an Overview tab in Context Manager to find and fill context gaps. It also added Bazaarvoice Conversations nodes for Workflows and export of Project tasks to Adobe Workfront.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Profound changelog.

New Agents: the AI Marketer builds an Agent from a plain-language request, with triggers

Available Oct. 16, 2026.

The AI Marketer writes the instructions for an Agent from a description; Agents run on a schedule or on triggers (a competitor blog post, a 5% visibility change, a Slack post). Old node-based Agents become Workflows.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound product changelog.

In PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026.

Microsoft 365 integration for Agents

Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Profound Agents can access and edit Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word after a user connects a Microsoft account.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound changelog.

Run Agents from Aim with @ mention

Available Aug. 21, 2026.

Call any Agent from a chat with the AI Marketer; Aim runs it and returns Docs or Sheets in the conversation.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound changelog.

Human Review Node

Available July 31, 2026.

A node that pauses an Agent or Sheet mid-run so a person reviews the output before it continues.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound changelog.

Brainstorm Mode (within Aim)

Available July 20, 2026.

Guided mode inside the Aim AI agent that turns a broad goal into a scoped, ready-to-run agent workflow.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound (blog).

Aim

Available July 2, 2026.

Always-on AI marketing agent that continuously monitors visibility/sentiment/accuracy signals and turns opportunities into executable Projects. It proposes and drafts work; a human reviews and approves before anything publishes.

Features: AI agents, AI-answer tracking, AI-answer optimization.

Source: Profound (GlobeNewswire press release).

Agent Template Marketplace

Available June 26, 2026.

Marketplace of pre-built marketing, SEO and AEO agent templates that can be cloned into Profound Agents.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound blog.

Agent Assistant

Available May 15, 2026.

Describe a marketing process by text or voice and Agent Assistant builds an editable Profound Agent.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound changelog.

Profound Sheets

Available March 23, 2026.

Spreadsheet-style interface where every row runs its own AI agent, enabling parallel AEO workflows at scale.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound (blog).

Knowledge Bases

Available Feb. 12, 2026.

Lets marketing teams upload source-of-truth documents so Profound Agents have brand-specific context when acting.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound (blog).

Lets each Ivy assistant have its own system prompt

Announced Feb. 25, 2026.

Per-Ivy system prompts tune behaviours such as opportunity response and newsjacking, overriding company-level prompts.

Features: AI agents.

Source: MVPR product updates.

Releases Ivy AI Assistants

Announced Sept. 21, 2026.

The Ivy Chats feature is released under the name Ivy AI Assistants.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: MVPR product updates.

Adds run limits to Ivy scheduled actions

Announced June 11, 2026.

Scheduled AI actions can stop on their own after a set number of runs.

Features: AI agents.

Source: MVPR product updates.

Q Platform, Q Access and Q Agents

Available Feb. 26, 2026.

A workflow system where Q Agents run on source and first-party data, plus Q Access, which exposes Ask Q and Q Agents over MCP and in Microsoft Teams and Slack.

Features: AI agents, MCP servers and connectors, Chat assistant.

Source: Quid press release.

Ask Q upgrade: multi-dataset questions

Available Oct. 15, 2026.

Ask Q now answers one question across several datasets, plans the steps to an answer, and reaches company and patent data from Quid Discover.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Quid blog.

In PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026.

AI Search Agent turns plain-language prompts into Boolean searches

Announced March 2026.

Users describe what they want to monitor in plain language and the agent writes the structured Boolean search.

Features: Media monitoring, AI agents.

Source: Muck Rack blog (Q1 product roundup).

Agent Mode

Available March 6, 2026. In beta.

An AI agent reads a client's site, searches today's news, and proposes trending story angles, then builds a media list.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Source: Medialyst Blog.

Newsjack v0.1.21 bundles its full skill and Medialyst MCP reference in the plugin

Available Oct. 22, 2026.

Point release of the MIT-licensed Newsjack agent skills. The plugin now ships the complete skill and a Medialyst MCP reference, with Slack delivery fixes and tighter journalist-contact privacy and press-clip access rules.

Features: AI agents, MCP servers and connectors, Journalist research, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub release (elvisun/newsjack).

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

Project memory (teach the agent)

Available Sept. 17, 2026.

Per-client project memory and uploaded files the Medialyst Agent reads before building lists and scoring journalists.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Source: Medialyst blog.

Beat Sweep Agents

Available Aug. 20, 2026.

Dedicated research agents, one per story angle, read findings and pull threads until each angle is exhausted.

Features: AI agents.

Sources: Medialyst Blog, Medialyst changelog (corroborated by Medialyst blog).

media-list-manager skill (later find-journalists): build fit-checked media lists (newsjack)

Available June 1, 2026.

An agent skill that builds small media lists, optionally through Medialyst, and falls back to a local file.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents, Agent skill.

Source: GitHub (newsjack release v0.1.0 and its README).

Agent Mode V2: Medialyst Agent

Available March 31, 2026.

Persistent AI agent attached to the workflow table understands full table state and takes real actions via conversation.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Sources: Medialyst Blog, Medialyst changelog.

Agentic outreach (AI outreach agent)

Available March 7, 2026.

An AI agent finds relevant blog/article prospects, looks up editor contacts, writes pitches and sends them after approval (or via optional autopilot), follows up, and drafts replies for the customer to approve.

Features: AI agents.

Source: MentionAgent about page.

GEO Outreach Agent

Available April 27, 2026.

A Wayback capture confirms the GEO Outreach Agent was listed in indexableai.com's navigation by this date; not confirmed as a launch date or the site's earliest capture.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Wayback Machine first capture.

Ask Ahrefs (formerly Agent B)

Available May 2026.

Suite-wide embedded AI agent (available on any Ahrefs page, not specific to Brand Radar) that answers questions, summarizes data, compares competitors, and explains metrics by running API queries.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Ahrefs blog.

Quill

Available May 13, 2026.

AI agent lead that monitors, creates, refreshes and optimizes content for AI search, with human review.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Business Wire via Yahoo Finance.

Sophie (social media agent)

Available May 18, 2026.

AI agent that drafts platform-specific LinkedIn and Bluesky posts from articles published by Knowatoa's content-writing agent, Connie.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Knowatoa Updates.

Visibility Boost

Available May 19, 2026. In beta.

Advertising agent built on AI-visibility data that targets ChatGPT ad placements at the conversations where a brand ranks weakest (invite-only beta at launch).

Features: AI-answer optimization, AI agents.

Source: Evertune (vendor).

Agentic GEO: GEO Manager, Content Studio and an Evertune MCP

Available Oct. 28, 2026.

Evertune's Agentic GEO lets users ask agents why AI visibility changed and get findings with evidence and next steps, then turn a gap into a strategy, brief or draft in Content Studio. Evertune MCP brings the same data into Claude and ChatGPT.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer optimization, AI-cited sources.

Source: Evertune blog.

Starter: self-serve no-contract plan with an agent that builds ChatGPT ad campaigns

Announced Oct. 20, 2026.

Evertune launched Starter, a self-serve plan with credit-card signup and no contract. Users run an AI visibility report and an agent writes ChatGPT ad targeting, context hints and copy for the topics where AI leaves the brand out, then launches and optimizes the campaign.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI agents.

Source: Evertune blog.

Releases Brand Assistant 2.0 with web access

Announced May 26, 2026.

The in-app assistant now works as an agent that picks tools, places charts inline and can search the web and read pages on demand.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents, Coverage analysis.

Source: Brand24 changelog.

Purpose-built agents

Available June 2, 2026.

Agents handle time-intensive PR tasks such as monitoring journalist requests, researching podcasts, and drafting starting points.

Features: AI agents.

Source: PR Newswire.

Workflows: always-on PR automations that re-run a search and deliver only what is new

Available July 14, 2026.

Saved searches (journalist requests, podcasts, awards, speaking, monitoring, GEO) that run hourly to monthly and post new matches to email or Slack.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Featured (About page, History).

Stratum

Available June 10, 2026.

Launches Stratum, an AI agent platform for communications and marketing teams combining agents, domain-specific models and live media and social data.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Sequencr AI.

Influencer Discovery Agent

Announced Sept. 3, 2026.

Builds a search strategy from a brief, asks the user to approve it, then runs a semantic search for creators who match the brand's tone, audience and intent.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Sequencr insights.

News Agents preview

Available June 15, 2026. In beta.

Autonomous research agents that follow a user-defined topic and surface narrative shifts; preview for premium members.

Features: AI agents.

Source: NewsBox What's New.

Truescope AI launches Assistant and Analyst

Announced June 17, 2026.

Assistant answers natural-language questions over coverage, explains spikes and writes report sections and digests; Analyst runs multi-agent analysis with 70+ templates and cited sources.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Truescope product updates.

Adds Truescope Analyst to scheduled reports

Announced Aug. 11, 2026.

AI MAX plan users can add Analyst's multi-step AI analysis to scheduled reports and get it on their schedule.

Features: Reporting and measurement, AI agents.

Source: Truescope product updates.

Agility Agent launch

Available June 17, 2026.

Agility PR Solutions launched Agility Agent, an autonomous agent that turns one prompt into a complete executive media report.

Features: AI agents, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Agility Agent press release (Newsfile).

Ask Pendulum conversational interface

Available June 23, 2026.

A chat interface over Pendulum's social dataset, powered by the Pendulum Agent, which commands specialized agents to run brand data discovery, analysis and strategy ideation and returns evidence-backed answers with confidence scores.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Pendulum newsroom.

Launches the Actions Agent for response plans

Announced Sept. 8, 2026.

Users describe a situation in plain language and upload their playbook; the agent checks mention data and returns a brief with root causes, similar past incidents, recommended responses and draft holding statements.

Features: AI agents, Coverage analysis.

Source: Pendulum blog.

Agentic Monitoring

Available June 23, 2026.

Monitoring agents watch conversations in near real time, triage brand-safety threats and pre-viral moments, and route them to Slack, Microsoft Teams or ticketing systems.

Features: Media monitoring, AI agents.

Source: Pendulum newsroom.

Executive Reporting via Digest

Available June 23, 2026.

Agents write presentation-ready executive briefs from the social data Pendulum has collected, replacing manual clip reports; the product page calls them Reporting Agents.

Features: Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement, AI agents.

Source: Pendulum newsroom.

Pytch web app: finds journalists covering your niche, reads their recent article

Available August 2026.

Pytch web app: finds journalists covering your niche, reads their recent articles, drafts tailored pitches, and sends from your Gmail.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Source: vendor site.

Pytch AI PR agent: approve a strategy, then it pitches and follows up from Gmail

Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Pytch launched an AI PR agent that finds journalists who covered a topic in the past 30 days, verifies contacts, writes personalized pitches and sends them with follow-ups from the user's Gmail or Google Workspace. The user approves a proposed strategy once, after which the agent runs outreach autonomously.

Features: AI agents, Journalist research, Pitch writing, Sending and follow-up.

Source: MarketersMedia wire release.

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

PropeLLM (First Large Language Model Built for PR)

Announced Aug. 17, 2026.

Propel's own large language model, trained on proprietary PR pitch, article, and journalist data, positioned as the first LLM built for PR.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Propel AI newsroom.

Athena AI agentic follow-up actions

Announced Aug. 19, 2026.

Athena's AI assistant gains the ability to act on conversations directly, e.g. saving views and updating the Knowledge Base.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: AthenaHQ (vendor blog).

Preston automates journalist list building and drafts outreach in one workflow

Available Aug. 24, 2026.

Preston added an agent workflow that analyzes a brand, builds media lists and drafts personalized outreach.

Features: AI agents, Media lists built by agents.

Source: EIN Presswire (Intelligent Relations release, 24 Aug 2026).

Adds Agentic Event Reporting to IR Hub

Available Sept. 2, 2026.

AI produces post-event summaries, themes, Q&A analysis and media and retail-investor signals. Previewed at NIRI on 2026-06-08 (release notified-unveils-agentic-event-reporting-at-n); available 2026-09-02.

Features: AI agents, Coverage analysis.

Source: Notified newsroom.

Upgrades Insights Copilot agent with multi-step, cross-competitor analysis

Announced Sept. 23, 2026.

The new Insights Copilot answers one question across a whole competitive set, plans multi-step analysis, sets filters from plain language and writes shareable reports.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.

Source: YouScan blog (News & Updates).

LangChain tools for paying per call to publish and wire press releases

Available Oct. 20, 2026.

An MIT-licensed LangChain package lets an agent draft and publish a press release on Agent Press Wire's newsroom ($1) or distribute it over a newswire ($99 standard, $299 premium), paid per call in USDC on Base over x402. A spending cap refuses payments above a default $1.

Features: Press release and content writing, Distribution and newsroom, AI agents, Plugin.

Source: GitHub (dylancaponi/langchain-agent-press-wire).