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I want an AI to do deep research for me

AI research assistant

Reads documents and the web to produce sourced research reports.

3 wrappers indexed · Category · research

Teardown

EXA

Search API for AI

$85M

Public data & APIs

Common Crawl
GitHub public repos
arXiv
Wikipedia
Publisher licensing deals
Proprietary web crawl index

Wrapped product

Web search API for AI agents and apps

Same crawl + embeddings + LLM extraction on your index

Backers

  • Benchmark
  • Lightspeed
  • NVIDIA
Build it yourself →

Teardown

YOU.COM

AI Search Infrastructure

$50M

Public data & APIs

CommonCrawl
Licensed publisher content
Live web crawl
arXiv

Wrapped product

Web search & research APIs for AI agents

Same retrieval + frontier model API on open web data

Backers

  • Salesforce Ventures
  • NVIDIA
Build it yourself →

Teardown

PERPLEXITY

Consumer Search

$9B

Public data & APIs

Common Crawl
Publisher licensing deals
Google/Bing Search APIs
Wikipedia

Wrapped product

Consumer answer engine with citations

Same search APIs + frontier model on retrieved results

Backers

  • Accel
  • IVP
  • NEA
  • NVIDIA
Build it yourself →

Then build it yourself

Most of the value is the same APIs + your data + a clean prompt.

Open any teardown above for the data layer, the agent prompt, and the exact internal substitute. The point isn't to clone the startup — it's to replay the useful workflow inside your org.