“We evaluated five different search providers, but none came close to Exa's quality and breadth of data.”
About HockeyStack
Redefining AI for revenue teams
HockeyStack is redefining AI for revenue teams. Its platform reverse-engineers the entire revenue process with machine learning, mapping how a team wins deals. Revenue agents then execute that process across every account and opportunity.
For those agents to act effectively, they need to find the right people and understand the context around them. HockeyStack uses Exa to power people search inside its revenue agents.
The Challenge
Finding the right people for every opportunity
Revenue workflows depend on identifying the right people at the right companies. That means searching beyond a fixed list of contacts and finding professionals by role, company, seniority, location, and other criteria.
As revenue agents work across accounts and opportunities, people search needs to be broad enough to surface relevant profiles and precise enough to support the next action. The search layer also needs to fit naturally into agent workflows.
The Solution
Exa People Search inside revenue agents
HockeyStack uses Exa People Search as the people discovery layer inside its revenue agents.
- Search in natural language: Revenue agents can describe the people they need to find in the way a revenue team would.
- Use structured attributes: Exa supports criteria such as role, company, seniority, and location alongside natural-language search.
- Bring in professional profiles: Exa provides access to more than 1B professional profiles, with an index refreshed weekly.
- Execute across opportunities: The results become part of the agent workflow that runs across accounts and opportunities.
How HockeyStack uses Exa
Find the right people
Exa helps HockeyStack's revenue agents identify relevant professionals across accounts and opportunities.Combine natural language and structured criteria
Agents can search with plain-language descriptions while filtering by role, company, seniority, location, and other attributes.Keep people data fresh
With more than 1B professional profiles and a weekly refresh, Exa gives revenue agents a broad and current people index to work from.Why Exa
Quality and breadth of data
HockeyStack evaluated five different search providers before choosing Exa. For its revenue agents, the quality and breadth of the underlying people data mattered as much as the search interface.
Exa combines natural-language search with structured professional attributes, making it a flexible fit for agentic people discovery. Its broad index and weekly refresh help HockeyStack's agents find relevant professionals as they work through accounts and opportunities.
Results
People search for revenue agents at scale
Exa powers the people search inside HockeyStack's revenue agents, helping the platform find relevant professionals across revenue workflows.
- More than 9.1M Search requests to date: HockeyStack uses Exa Search for people and account research across its revenue agents.
- Five search providers evaluated: HockeyStack compared five providers before choosing Exa.
- Every account and opportunity: Exa powers people search inside HockeyStack's revenue agents across its workflows.
Integrate Exa APIs
Search API
Returns results and their contents
Agent API
Run multi-step research and enrichment workflows