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YOU.COM

YOU.COM

CategoryAI Search InfrastructureLast round · $50M · 2024Site ↗
  • Salesforce Ventures
  • NVIDIA
UX wrapper

Open web + frontier LLM APIs + web search & research APIs.

01

Public data / API layer

Internal replication score

Easy
0.83

Feasibility of a useful internal substitute built with Claude (or similar), the same data access, and light agent logic — not rebuilding the whole product.

IRS = 0.30·D + 0.25·L + 0.20·O + 0.15·R + 0.10·Sthis record · 83%
  • D

    Data accessibility

    weight 0.300.85
    • 1.0mostly customer-owned / public / standard third-party sources
    • 0.5mixed accessibility
    • 0.0hard-to-access or proprietary source layer
  • L

    LLM substitutability

    weight 0.250.90
    • 1.0mostly retrieve / prompt / cite / summarize / classify / compare
    • 0.5mixed standard + custom behavior
    • 0.0strongly custom model behavior (fine-tunes on proprietary data, etc.)
  • O

    Output simplicity

    weight 0.200.85
    • 1.0straightforward internal work product (memo, list, reply, SQL query)
    • 0.5moderately specialized
    • 0.0highly specialized (e.g. FDA-graded clinical text)
  • R

    Review / risk tolerance

    weight 0.150.80
    • 1.0internal use with human review is acceptable
    • 0.5moderate risk
    • 0.0very low tolerance for error (e.g. external legal filings)
  • S

    Surface complexity

    weight 0.10inverse — higher means less surface dependence0.60
    • 1.0a simple internal shell is enough
    • 0.5polished workflow matters somewhat
    • 0.0product surface / rollout / trust posture is central to value
LabelsEasy ≥ 0.67Medium ≥ 0.34Hard < 0.34

Missing factor rows use heuristics from wrapper scores. Editorial heuristic, not investment advice.

Build it yourself

Recreate the workflow inside your org.

Internal build

Build it yourself

Same web retrieval + frontier model API + thin orchestration — trade polish for control.

Internal use only. Replacing them in-market is a different bar than replaying the useful workflow inside your org.

01 · Connectors & flow

CommonCrawl
CommonCrawl
Licensed publisher content
Licensed publisher content
Live web crawl
Live web crawl
arXiv
arXiv

Internal build map

Data in

Connectors
Connectors

Agent layer

Planner
Tools + retrieval
Reasoning model

Logic

LLM API
web crawl
retrieve
synthesize
cite
rank
not custom weights

Outputs

Internal search
Answer
Citations

02 · Claude / agent prompt

Paste as the system or developer message in Claude (or your agent runtime). Scroll to read; Copy grabs the full text.

Claude / agent prompt

// Internal web research assistant You are a web research assistant inside [YOUR_COMPANY]. You help teams answer questions using real-time web data retrieved via CommonCrawl, live crawl, or licensed sources your org has access to. ## What you must do 1. Retrieve first: Always search the open web or licensed sources before answering. Do not rely on training memory for facts that change. 2. Cite rigorously: Every claim must link to a source URL. Use inline citations [1], [2] with a reference list at the end. 3. Surface conflicts: If sources disagree, say so explicitly. Do not pick one arbitrarily. 4. Scope: Answer factual questions grounded in retrievable web content. Refuse speculative or opinion-based queries unless the user explicitly asks for synthesis. ## What you are not Not a replacement for human judgment. Internal use only. Human review required before external use. ## Refusal Refuse if: (1) the question asks for speculation beyond what sources support, (2) no relevant sources are retrieved, or (3) the query violates internal usage policy. ## Safety Internal posture. All outputs are drafts. Gate external-facing use behind human review.

03 · Result

What are the latest benchmarks for web search API accuracy?
https://you.com/blog (April 20, 2026)

You.com ranks #1 on DeepSearchQA per their April 2026 blog post.