Crustdata - Web Search API for AI Agents

Hey everyone! 👋

We’re Chris, Abhilash, and Manmohit - founders of Crustdata (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.

This launch is our Web Search API - the fastest, most accurate way for agents to get structured, fresh web data they can actually act on.

🎥 Demo video 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouWW97hBN8

TL;DR

• 🧠 Web Search API for AI agents: real-time search + fetch → structured data mapped to a canonical entity
• 🧩 Proprietary indexing algorithm that maps every relevant web document back to the correct person/company entity
• 🏗 Built on 2 years of verified people + firmographic data APIs, now extended to index the rest of the web
• 🔎 Pair it with our People Search API to find the right people, then pull the freshest context from the web

Problem

The web has everything about people and companies - funding posts, blogs, GitHub, research papers, podcasts, job changes, pricing pages, news - but it’s:

• scattered across billions of pages
• written for humans
• hard for AI to reliably connect into one coherent view

So agents either:

1. scrape brittle HTML and break constantly, or
2. use stale databases and miss what changed this week.

Solution

We spent 2 years building verified People + Company APIs. That gave us high-confidence entity profiles.

Now we’re indexing the rest of the web and building a proprietary indexing algorithm that:

1. finds every relevant document about a person/company
2. maps it to the right entity
3. returns it as structured data that agents can use immediately

That’s the foundation of Crustdata Web Search API.

Think: a search engine for agents, where the output isn’t “10 blue links,” but entity-linked, structured, fresh context from the web.

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What you can build with it

AI SDR / GTM agents

• Get the latest proof points on a company (launches, funding, exec moves, pricing changes)
• Generate personalization that’s actually timely

Recruiting / sourcing agents

• Identify candidates with the right background using People Search API
• Pull the newest context (papers, talks, open source projects, blog posts, news, events) via Web Search API

Research / diligence agents

• Track a market/category and continuously attach new web documents to the right companies/people
• Turn web noise into structured signals

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Our ask

If you’re building an AI agent or GTM tool and need real-time people + company data from the web, check out Crustdata.

• Docs / access: Web Search API
• People discovery: People Search API
• Book a demo: https://crustdata.com/demo