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StackAI

How Exa powers enterprise AI agents at StackAI

2 weeks
Integration to full deployment
10x
Research capability improvement
24/7
Real-time intelligence access
Company
StackAI
Industry
AI Platform
Size
10-50
API
StackAI and Exa are the dream team…Exa is amazing at web search! We're proud to use Exa on our platform and to show our customers how web search can power AI agent workflows.
Bernard Aceituno
Co-Founder and President, StackAI
Bernard Aceituno

StackAI leverages Exa's Search, Answer, and Websets APIs to power enterprise AI agents with real-time web intelligence, enabling automated research workflows that match human capabilities at scale.

About StackAI

Enterprise AI Agent Platform

StackAI is the secure enterprise toolkit for building, deploying, and managing AI agents at scale. With a focus on enterprise-grade governance and security, StackAI has become the go-to platform for organizations looking to leverage AI agents for mission-critical operations like due diligence, competitive intelligence, RFP response drafting, and market research.

The Challenge

Building research-ready enterprise AI agents

Building enterprise AI agents that could match human research capabilities meant solving some critical problems first:

1. Search Quality: Traditional search APIs returned keyword-matched results that missed semantic context and nuanced business intelligence

2. Workflow Integration: Enterprise customers needed search seamlessly embedded in complex multi-step agent workflows, not standalone search tools

3. Enterprise Scale: The platform needed to handle thousands of concurrent searches across different customer workflows

4. Use Case Diversity: From financial due diligence to competitive intelligence to regulatory monitoring, different industries needed different search approaches

The Solution

Dual integration architecture for enterprise AI agents

Exa met every requirement through a dual integration architecture:

User-facing search node

StackAI exposes Exa as a drag-and-drop node in their visual agent builder, giving users direct access to core capabilities

Tool-calling backend intelligence

Exa also powers StackAI's native web search behind the scenes, automatically enhancing every agent's research capabilities, no code or configuration required, when calling Exa as a tool within an LLM node
StackAI workflow builder showing Exa nodes

Results

Transformed enterprise AI agent capabilities

The integration has transformed how StackAI's enterprise customers build and deploy research-ready AI agents:

  • High customer engagement: Strong adoption of both the exposed Exa node and automatic backend enhancements across StackAI's customer base
  • Improved agent performance: Exa enables real-time, internet-scale searching, integrating fresh external data seamlessly within AI agent workflows
  • Real-time intelligence: Agents can access, analyze, and utilize web data efficiently and effectively, delivering even more ROI for customers
Implementation

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