{"id":97527,"title":"Crustdata - Web Search API for AI Agents","tagline":"Fastest and most accurate web search API for people, companies and events","body":"Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re **Chris, Abhilash, and Manmohit** - founders of [**Crustdata**](https://crustdata.com) (YC F24). We’re restructuring the web for AI agents by building the **first search engine built specifically for AI agents** to find information on **people, companies, and events**.\n\nThis launch is our [**Web Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/websearch) - the fastest, most accurate way for agents to get **structured, fresh web data** they can actually act on.\n\n🎥 Demo video 👇\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouWW97hBN8\u003e\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\n* 🧠 [**Web Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/websearch) for AI agents: real-time search + fetch → structured data mapped to a canonical entity\n* 🧩 Proprietary indexing algorithm that **maps every relevant web document back to the correct person/company entity**\n* 🏗 Built on **2 years of verified people + firmographic data APIs**, now extended to index the rest of the web\n* 🔎 Pair it with our [**People Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/people-discovery) to find the right people, then pull the freshest context from the web\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97527\u0026key=user_uploads/508558/e3f61603-9266-4b39-8714-3b48fb680d25)\n\n## **Problem**\n\nThe web has _everything_ about people and companies - funding posts, blogs, GitHub, research papers, podcasts, job changes, pricing pages, news - but it’s:\n\n* scattered across **billions of pages**\n* written for **humans**\n* hard for AI to **reliably connect** into one coherent view\n\nSo agents either:\n\n1. scrape brittle HTML and break constantly, or\n2. use stale databases and miss what changed this week.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nWe spent **2 years** building **verified People + Company APIs**. That gave us high-confidence entity profiles.\n\nNow we’re indexing the **rest of the web** and building a proprietary indexing algorithm that:\n\n1. finds every relevant document about a person/company\n2. **maps it to the right entity**\n3. returns it as **structured data** that agents can use immediately\n\nThat’s the foundation of [**Crustdata Web Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/websearch).\n\nThink: **a search engine for agents**, where the output isn’t “10 blue links,” but **entity-linked, structured, fresh context from the web**.\n\n---\n\n## **What you can build with it**\n\n### **AI SDR / GTM agents**\n\n* Get the **latest** proof points on a company (launches, funding, exec moves, pricing changes)\n* Generate personalization that’s actually timely\n\n### **Recruiting / sourcing agents**\n\n* Identify candidates with the right background using [**People Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/people-discovery)\n* Pull the newest context (papers, talks, open source projects, blog posts, news, events) via [**Web Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/websearch)\n\n### **Research / diligence agents**\n\n* Track a market/category and continuously attach new web documents to the right companies/people\n* Turn web noise into structured signals\n\n---\n\n## **Our ask**\n\nIf you’re building an **AI agent** or **GTM tool** and need **real-time people + company data from the web**, check out [**Crustdata**](https://crustdata.com).\n\n* Docs / access: [**Web Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/websearch)\n* People discovery: [**People Search API**](https://crustdata.com/apis/people-discovery)\n* Book a demo: \u003chttps://crustdata.com/demo\u003e","slug":"PN1-crustdata-web-search-api-for-ai-agents","created_at":"2026-02-05T19:12:57.968Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:45:42.977Z","total_vote_count":79,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PN1-crustdata-web-search-api-for-ai-agents","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=97527\u0026key=user_uploads/508558/e3f61603-9266-4b39-8714-3b48fb680d25","company":{"id":30076,"name":"Crustdata","slug":"crustdata","url":"https://crustdata.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a645ebfbcdeac20235858ba701359f66323b4b37.png","batch":"Fall 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30076"}}