{"id":93370,"title":"Riveter ⚡ Thousands of AI search agents running in parallel","tagline":"Riveter automates web research for every row in your spreadsheet with just a prompt.","body":"We built Riveter because manual research sucks. And the slow, tedious process of collecting information from the internet takes people’s time away from doing great work.\n\n# **Why Riveter is great:**\n\n* We **simplified browser use to allow cheap web crawling** to be done at scale. \n* Our agent can make Google searches, view web pages, read PDFs and images, and **navigate to other pages** that might have better results. \n* It’s fast.\n* We give you sources, reasoning, and a record of the path the agent took to find the answer.\n* You’ll start seeing results within minutes of signing up.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n#### https://youtu.be/oNSfKnLv-s4\n\n# **Why it matters:**\n\nMost teams still spend hours (or hire UpWorkers/contractors) to manually copy product specs, check competitor pricing, pull custom KYB/KYC data to assess customer risk, or scrape filings. \n\nPerplexity and ChatGPT are great for single questions, but they can’t handle large amounts of data at once. And they’re working with a single agent and context window instead of one in every cell.\n\nAnd Riveter’s web browsing can go further—even reading PDFs and images that may contain answers. \n\nWith Riveter, anyone can automate complex, auditable web research… without coding. \n\n#### \n\n# **How it works:**\n\n1. Upload your dataset (or prompt for Riveter to search \u0026 build you a dataset)\n2. Add a prompt for the new column\n3. Riveter’s agents search, navigate sites, read PDFs/images, and return structured outputs — with sources and reasoning for every cell.\n\n# **Traction:**\n\n* **2M+ searches automated** across customers\n* **Snap and Pietra** use Riveter for data that powers core product features\n* **Sunco** automated most of their product development research and supplier sourcing\n\n# **Who uses Riveter:**\n\n* **E-commerce:** Product specs, pricing, retailer research\n* **Sales/GTM:** Lead enrichment, market research, prospect discovery\n* **Finance:** Revenue announcements, SEC filings, fundraising data\n* **Risk/Compliance:** KYC/KYB checks, ownership verification, negative news screening\n* **Procurement:** Supplier research, competitive analysis\n\n# **About us:**\n\nCody Watters (Staff Engineer at Gusto → AI products at Retool) and Abby Grills (Mid-Market Payroll lead at Gusto → Product at Middesk) have a combined 20 years of experience building complex data systems.\n\n### **Try Riveter**\n\n**Free trial:** https://riveterhq.com\n\n**Book a demo:** https://riveterhq.com/contact\n\nIf your team does repetitive web research or builds fragile scrapers, we'd love your feedback on workflow templates and integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93370\u0026key=user_uploads/2203245/f392ac8e-5d55-405f-8d74-e8b7128f7633)\n\n---","slug":"OHy-riveter-thousands-of-ai-search-agents-running-in-parallel","created_at":"2025-08-27T20:15:28.319Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:16:25.919Z","total_vote_count":45,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OHy-riveter-thousands-of-ai-search-agents-running-in-parallel","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=93370\u0026key=user_uploads/2203245/f392ac8e-5d55-405f-8d74-e8b7128f7633","company":{"id":30017,"name":"Riveter","slug":"riveter","url":"https://www.riveterhq.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ba11fcc185e7540e26d2fc388417c1e4c6dfad61.png","batch":"Fall 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","B2B","E-commerce","Market Research","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30017"}}