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Use Exa Search for organizations and the people connected to them. These searches work best together: describe the company traits that qualify a person, or the people and roles that reveal how a company operates.

Company retrieval benchmark

See how Exa evaluates company retrieval and fact extraction.

People retrieval benchmark

See how Exa evaluates targeted lookups and profile discovery.

Use it for

  • Company, candidate, and expert discovery
  • Account research and stakeholder mapping
  • Market maps, investment research, and deal sourcing
  • Leadership, hiring, and organization research

Write better queries

Start with the entity you want, then add the traits and relationships that qualify it. Ask for the source type when it matters, such as company homepages, professional profiles, job postings, or personal websites.

Discover companies by what they do

Describe the customer, product, capability, stage, and geography that define the market. This finds candidates based on what they do instead of relying on a predefined company list.

Find operating signals

Name the signal and the company traits that matter. Search can retrieve job postings, pricing pages, product documentation, and reporting alongside company pages.

Research funding activity

Specify the round, industry, participant, and time window.

Search both together

Write one query that expresses the relationship you need. Exa can return company pages, professional profiles, hiring pages, and public references in the same result set.

Make a request

Get structured data with Exa Agent

For structured data that requires research across multiple sources, use an Exa Agent task run. Describe the companies, people, qualification criteria, and output fields you need, and Agent returns schema-validated results with citations.

Start an Agent task

Build and qualify company or people lists, then enrich each record with fields gathered from multiple sources.
Last modified on September 15, 2026