Company Research

Tool Selection (Critical)

Two Exa surfaces, two jobs:

• Exa Agent (agent_run) — the default for company research. Use it for deep dives, competitor analysis, multi-angle research (product + funding + news + people), and building company lists. One Agent run handles query decomposition, multi-step searching, and synthesis internally — do not orchestrate many manual searches for work an Agent run covers.
• web_search_advanced_exa — quick, low-latency lookups: a fast category: "company" discovery pass, a single news check, or finding a homepage.

Do NOT use other Exa tools.

Deep Dives and Lists: Exa Agent

Agent runs may stream to completion in one call. If a run outlives the MCP call window, continue waiting with its returned run ID.

1. Call agent_run with a natural-language query and, when you want repeatable structure, an outputSchema (bound arrays with maxItems).
2. If it returns status: "running" with a runId, call agent_run again with only that runId until outputReady is true.
3. Read output.text or output.structured, plus output.grounding citations, from the agent_run result.