Tavily

Tavily is a private AI company that built a search API designed specifically for AI agents and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines. Detailed public information about the company — including founding year, founders, headcount, and funding status — is limited.

Tavily's primary product is the Tavily Search API, which enables AI agents to retrieve up-to-date information from the web in real time, returning results optimized for consumption by large language models rather than human readers. The API has been adopted as a default search component within LangGraph and other popular AI agent frameworks. The typical buyer is a developer or engineering team building LLM-powered applications.