{"id":99089,"title":"Webhound Agent: A full research assistant with a workspace","tagline":"An AI research assistant powered by the best deep research money can buy","body":"\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csm6x3carjc\u003e\n\n**The problem:** Most deep research products decide for you when to stop. And since they're subscription-based, the less work they do per query, the more they profit.\n\n**What we built:** Webhound is a research agent where you set a dollar budget and it keeps searching until it's used. $5 or $100 — every dollar goes into deeper search, more sources, and real verification. The output is either a cited research report or a structured dataset with source URLs per cell.\n\n**What's new:** Today we're launching Webhound Agent — a full research assistant with a workspace.\n\n* **Start research from chat.** Describe what you need, the agent proposes a session with an editable budget and model. You confirm before anything runs.\n* **Multi-step pipelines.** Chain steps together — \"research X, then extract Y, then write a recommendation\" — and they run automatically in sequence.\n* **Analyze your existing work.** Ask the agent about any report or dataset. It reads the full document and answers with citations.\n* **Organize everything in folders.** Nested workspace with drag-and-drop, working directories, and folder-scoped context.\n* **The agent remembers you.** It learns your research interests, budget preferences, and working patterns across conversations.\n\n**How it works under the hood:** Research sessions run a plan-execute-verify loop. The planner decides what to investigate, the executor searches the web and writes a cited report, and the verifier checks every claim against its sources. When the verifier finds gaps, it sends the work back. This cycle repeats until the budget runs out.\n\n**Pricing:** Pay-as-you-go. No subscriptions. $5 free credits to start. See real example reports at different budgets: \u003chttps://webhound.ai/examples\u003e\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99089\u0026key=user_uploads/1444435/efda94f3-8921-4230-98e9-e26f86b3514c)\n\n","slug":"PmD-webhound-agent-a-full-research-assistant-with-a-workspace","created_at":"2026-03-25T17:52:50.836Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:38:55.058Z","total_vote_count":7,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PmD-webhound-agent-a-full-research-assistant-with-a-workspace","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=99089\u0026key=user_uploads/1444435/efda94f3-8921-4230-98e9-e26f86b3514c","company":{"id":29091,"name":"Webhound","slug":"webhound","url":"https://webhound.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1c9d8480ce32c923dc77fca44069ab19c5dab6eb.png","batch":"Summer 2023","industry":"Consumer","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Generative AI","Consumer","Search","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29091"}}