Category

Search & Discovery

Search, enrichment, and discovery systems that give agents structured access to specialized people, company, job, or domain data.

Editorial scope version 1.0 ยท effective 3 September 2026

Category listing

2 Search & Discovery Tools

Definition

What belongs in Search & Discovery?

This category covers purpose-built retrieval and discovery products whose indexed data, ranking, enrichment, or result structure materially improves an agent workflow.

Includes specialized indexes, ranking, enrichment, and structured retrieval for people, companies, jobs, or other domain-specific data used by agents.

Scope

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Include when

  • The search corpus or enrichment is specialized and documented.
  • Results are available in structured, agent-usable form with useful provenance or identifiers.
  • The product materially improves discovery beyond a generic web search or API call.

Exclude when

  • It is a broad consumer search engine with no substantive agent interface.
  • Its main capability is crawling or extraction rather than search and discovery.

Selection guide

How to compare these tools

  • What corpus is searched and how current is it?
  • Which fields, filters, identifiers, and provenance accompany results?
  • What coverage, confidence, and data-use limitations are disclosed?

Typical use cases

  • Discover people, companies, jobs, or domain records
  • Filter and rank specialized datasets programmatically
  • Enrich results with identifiers, provenance, and structured fields

Category evidence

Sources for this category guidance

  1. Exa Websets documentation

    Exa Websets documents natural-language searches that verify candidates against criteria, enrich matches, and return structured results.

    accessed 2026-09-03

Comparable facts

Search & Discovery comparison

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ToolClassificationPricingInterfacesDeploymentVerification
SixtyfourAgent-enablingPaidREST API, MCP servers, workflow editor, web dashboard, webhookshosteddocumentation reviewed
FiberAgent-enablingPaidREST API, MCP server, web dashboard, webhookshosteddocumentation reviewed