“Exa's strong coverage and flexible API have been a key differentiator for us. Scientists trust our product further when the relevant papers they expect to see are available to them in the right workflows.”
Naveed Janmohamed
Founder & CEO, Anara
Exa-powered AI workspace for scientific research
Anara is an AI workspace for scientists, students, and research teams, helping users find and interact with scientific documents using AI. Powered by major academic databases like PubMed, arXiv, and JSTOR, Anara enables collaborative learning by creating searchable libraries for projects and generating tailored quizzes.
The Challenge
Navigating vast academic landscapes
With more academic papers published today than at any point in history, researchers face significant obstacles in finding relevant, high-signal content:
- Information overload: The sheer volume of published papers makes it difficult to find seminal works and hidden gems
- Citation accuracy: Researchers need to correctly identify and reference original sources
- Workflow integration: Multiple manual steps required to search, retrieve, and summarize research content
- Trust building: Scientists need to see familiar, relevant content to trust the system
The Solution
AI-powered research infrastructure with Exa
Anara implemented Exa's Search and Content APIs to create a seamless research discovery and citation system.
Exa's use cases:
Drive citations
Identify and retrieve original sources to drive accurate citation in writingPower agents
Power agents that search specific papers and suggest next steps in research thinkingCurate library
Surface high-quality research papers related to current reading, directly inside AnaraImplementation
Integrate Exa APIs
Search API
Returns results and their contents
Neural search
Keyword-based search
Relevant results
Answer API
Get an LLM answer to a question.
Fast
Summarized answers
Combined keyword and neural search