company-research

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Company research using Exa search. Finds company info, competitors, news, tweets, financials, LinkedIn profiles, builds company lists. Use when researching companies, doing competitor analysis, market research, or building company lists.

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Added on2026-02-08

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Company Research

Tool Restriction (Critical)

ONLY use

web_search_advanced_exa

. Do NOT use

web_search_exa

or any other Exa tools.

Token Isolation (Critical)

Never run Exa searches in main context. Always spawn Task agents:

Agent runs Exa search internally
Agent processes results using LLM intelligence
Agent returns only distilled output (compact JSON or brief markdown)
Main context stays clean regardless of search volume

Dynamic Tuning

No hardcoded numResults. Tune to user intent:

User says "a few" → 10-20
User says "comprehensive" → 50-100
User specifies number → match it
Ambiguous? Ask: "How many companies would you like?"

Query Variation

Exa returns different results for different phrasings. For coverage:

Generate 2-3 query variations
Run in parallel
Merge and deduplicate

Categories

Use appropriate Exa

category

depending on what you need:

```
company
```
→ homepages, rich metadata (headcount, location, funding, revenue)
```
news
```
→ press coverage, announcements
```
tweet
```
→ social presence, public commentary
```
people
```
→ LinkedIn profiles (public data)
No category (
```
type: "auto"
```
) → general web results, deep dives, broader context

Start with

category: "company"

for discovery, then use other categories or no category with

livecrawl: "fallback"

for deeper research.

Category-Specific Filter Restrictions

When using

category: "company"

, these parameters cause 400 errors:

```
includeDomains
```
/
```
excludeDomains
```
```
startPublishedDate
```
/
```
endPublishedDate
```
```
startCrawlDate
```
/
```
endCrawlDate
```

When searching without a category (or with

news

), domain and date filters work fine.

Universal restriction:

includeText

and

excludeText

only support single-item arrays. Multi-item arrays cause 400 errors across all categories.

LinkedIn

Public LinkedIn via Exa:

category: "people"

, no other filters. Auth-required LinkedIn → use Claude in Chrome browser fallback.

Browser Fallback

Auto-fallback to Claude in Chrome when:

Exa returns insufficient results
Content is auth-gated
Dynamic pages need JavaScript

Examples

Discovery: find companies in a space

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "AI infrastructure startups San Francisco",
  "category": "company",
  "numResults": 20,
  "type": "auto"
}

Deep dive: research a specific company

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "Anthropic funding rounds valuation 2024",
  "type": "deep",
  "livecrawl": "fallback",
  "numResults": 10,
  "includeDomains": ["techcrunch.com", "crunchbase.com", "bloomberg.com"]
}

News coverage

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "Anthropic AI safety",
  "category": "news",
  "numResults": 15,
  "startPublishedDate": "2024-01-01"
}

LinkedIn profiles

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "VP Engineering AI infrastructure",
  "category": "people",
  "numResults": 20
}

Output Format

Return:

Results (structured list; one company per row)
Sources (URLs; 1-line relevance each)
Notes (uncertainty/conflicts)