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Company research using Exa. Finds company info, competitors, news, financials, LinkedIn profiles, builds company lists. Use when researching companies, doing competitor analysis, market research, or building company lists.
Company research using Exa. Finds company info, competitors, news, financials, LinkedIn profiles, builds company lists. Use when researching companies, doing competitor analysis, market research, or building company lists.
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Two Exa surfaces, two jobs:
agent_run) — the default for company research. Use it for deep dives, competitor analysis, multi-angle research (product + funding + news + people), and building company lists. One Agent run handles query decomposition, multi-step searching, and synthesis internally — do not orchestrate many manual searches for work an Agent run covers.web_search_advanced_exa — quick, low-latency lookups: a fast category: "company" discovery pass, a single news check, or finding a homepage.Do NOT use other Exa tools.
Agent runs may stream to completion in one call. If a run outlives the MCP call window, continue waiting with its returned run ID.
agent_run with a natural-language query and, when you want repeatable structure, an outputSchema (bound arrays with maxItems).status: "running" with a runId, call agent_run again with only that runId until outputReady is true.output.text or output.structured, plus output.grounding citations, from the agent_run result.Useful inputs: systemPrompt (source preferences, dedup rules), input.exclusion (companies to avoid), previousRunId (a new follow-up run based on a completed run), effort ("low" default; "auto" or "high" for more depth).
agent_run {
"query": "Research Anthropic: product lines, funding history and valuation, key executives, main competitors, and notable news from the last 6 months.",
"effort": "auto",
"outputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"overview": { "type": "string" },
"funding": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "round": { "type": "string" }, "amount": { "type": "string" }, "date": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["round"] } },
"competitors": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "string" } },
"key_people": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["name", "title"] } }
},
"required": ["overview", "competitors"]
}
}
agent_run {
"query": "Find 25 AI infrastructure startups headquartered in San Francisco. For each, include what they build and their latest funding stage.",
"effort": "auto",
"outputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"companies": {
"type": "array",
"maxItems": 25,
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": { "type": "string" },
"website": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"description": { "type": "string", "description": "in 12 words or less" },
"funding_stage": { "type": "string" }
},
"required": ["name", "website", "description"]
}
}
},
"required": ["companies"]
}
}
Use web_search_advanced_exa when a single fast search answers the question. Tune numResults to intent (a few → 10-20; comprehensive → 50-100; specified → match it).
company → homepages, rich metadata (headcount, location, funding, revenue)news → press coverage, announcementspeople → public professional profilestype: "auto") → general web results, broader contextDefault to type: "auto". Prefer highlights for content extraction; do not stack text + highlights + summary in one call.
Unsupported category/filter combinations return 400 errors:
category: "company" does not support published-date or crawl-date filters, excludeDomains, or exact-text filters; express constraints like "founded after 2020" in the query insteadcategory: "people" does not support published-date, crawl-date, domain, or exact-text filters; put all filtering in the natural-language querynews), domain and date filters work fineDiscovery pass:
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "AI infrastructure startups San Francisco",
"category": "company",
"numResults": 20,
"type": "auto"
}
News check:
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "Anthropic AI safety",
"category": "news",
"numResults": 15,
"startPublishedDate": "2025-01-01"
}
Key people:
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "VP Engineering AI infrastructure",
"category": "people",
"numResults": 20
}
Never dump raw search results into main context. Spawn Task agents for Advanced Search calls; for Agent runs, go straight from output.structured to the final answer.
Fall back to Claude in Chrome only when content is auth-gated or requires JavaScript rendering.
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description: Company research using Exa. Finds company info, competitors, news, financials, LinkedIn profiles, builds company lists. Use when researching companies, doing competitor analysis, market research, or building company lists.
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# Company Research
## Tool Selection (Critical)
Two Exa surfaces, two jobs:
- **Exa Agent** (`agent_run`) — the default for company research. Use it for deep dives, competitor analysis, multi-angle research (product + funding + news + people), and building company lists. One Agent run handles query decomposition, multi-step searching, and synthesis internally — do not orchestrate many manual searches for work an Agent run covers.
- **`web_search_advanced_exa`** — quick, low-latency lookups: a fast `category: "company"` discovery pass, a single news check, or finding a homepage.
Do NOT use other Exa tools.
## Deep Dives and Lists: Exa Agent
Agent runs may stream to completion in one call. If a run outlives the MCP call window, continue waiting with its returned run ID.
1. Call `agent_run` with a natural-language `query` and, when you want repeatable structure, an `outputSchema` (bound arrays with `maxItems`).
2. If it returns `status: "running"` with a `runId`, call `agent_run` again with only that `runId` until `outputReady` is true.
3. Read `output.text` or `output.structured`, plus `output.grounding` citations, from the `agent_run` result.
Useful inputs: `systemPrompt` (source preferences, dedup rules), `input.exclusion` (companies to avoid), `previousRunId` (a new follow-up run based on a completed run), `effort` (`"low"` default; `"auto"` or `"high"` for more depth).
### Example: company deep dive
```
agent_run {
"query": "Research Anthropic: product lines, funding history and valuation, key executives, main competitors, and notable news from the last 6 months.",
"effort": "auto",
"outputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"overview": { "type": "string" },
"funding": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "round": { "type": "string" }, "amount": { "type": "string" }, "date": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["round"] } },
"competitors": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "string" } },
"key_people": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["name", "title"] } }
},
"required": ["overview", "competitors"]
}
}
```
### Example: build a company list
```
agent_run {
"query": "Find 25 AI infrastructure startups headquartered in San Francisco. For each, include what they build and their latest funding stage.",
"effort": "auto",
"outputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"companies": {
"type": "array",
"maxItems": 25,
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": { "type": "string" },
"website": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"description": { "type": "string", "description": "in 12 words or less" },
"funding_stage": { "type": "string" }
},
"required": ["name", "website", "description"]
}
}
},
"required": ["companies"]
}
}
```
## Quick Lookups: Advanced Search
Use `web_search_advanced_exa` when a single fast search answers the question. Tune `numResults` to intent (a few → 10-20; comprehensive → 50-100; specified → match it).
### Categories
- `company` → homepages, rich metadata (headcount, location, funding, revenue)
- `news` → press coverage, announcements
- `people` → public professional profiles
- No category (`type: "auto"`) → general web results, broader context
Default to `type: "auto"`. Prefer `highlights` for content extraction; do not stack text + highlights + summary in one call.
### Category-Specific Filter Restrictions
Unsupported category/filter combinations return 400 errors:
- `category: "company"` does not support published-date or crawl-date filters, `excludeDomains`, or exact-text filters; express constraints like "founded after 2020" in the query instead
- `category: "people"` does not support published-date, crawl-date, domain, or exact-text filters; put all filtering in the natural-language query
- Without a category (or with `news`), domain and date filters work fine
### Examples
Discovery pass:
```
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "AI infrastructure startups San Francisco",
"category": "company",
"numResults": 20,
"type": "auto"
}
```
News check:
```
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "Anthropic AI safety",
"category": "news",
"numResults": 15,
"startPublishedDate": "2025-01-01"
}
```
Key people:
```
web_search_advanced_exa {
"query": "VP Engineering AI infrastructure",
"category": "people",
"numResults": 20
}
```
## Token Isolation
Never dump raw search results into main context. Spawn Task agents for Advanced Search calls; for Agent runs, go straight from `output.structured` to the final answer.
## Browser Fallback
Fall back to Claude in Chrome only when content is auth-gated or requires JavaScript rendering.
## Output Format
Return:
1) Results (structured list; one company per row)
2) Sources (URLs; 1-line relevance each — use `output.grounding` from Agent runs)
3) Notes (uncertainty/conflicts)
## References
- Exa Agent guide: https://docs.exa.ai/reference/agent-api-guide
- Company Search reference: https://docs.exa.ai/reference/verticals/company-for-coding-agents
- Exa MCP setup: https://docs.exa.ai/reference/exa-mcp
- Full docs for LLMs: https://docs.exa.ai/llms.txt
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75/100
Needs review
Copies are not installs. Installation counts require a reported successful installation; they are not a blanket quality guarantee.