# Adot

> Adot is a San Francisco-based search company building an AI-assisted discovery layer for Web3. Its consumer search product brings web pages and blockchain-native information into a conversational interface, while its SDK and data interfaces are meant to let developers add search to decentralized applications. Adot's larger wager is economic as much as technical: a distributed network in which people who search, index, validate, or supply computing resources can share in the value they help create.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Wei Zheng (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 140 employees in the supplied company record; public company directories place Adot in the 51-200 range.
- **Products:** Adot AI Search, Adot AI browser extension, Web SDK and search interfaces, Contributor network
- **Notable:** Raised $6 million across seed, extended-seed, and Pre-A rounds by April 2024., Secured an additional strategic investment from Aptos in August 2024, with the amount undisclosed., Joined the TZ APAC ecosystem effort and demonstrated AI-assisted Web3 search in 2023.

## Products & services

- **Adot AI Search** — A conversational and multilingual search experience for Web3 material, including web content and blockchain-native data.
- **Adot AI browser extension** — A browser extension designed to explain Web3 concepts and bring Adot search into a user's browsing workflow.
- **Web SDK and search interfaces** — Developer tooling for adding AI-assisted search and access to indexed Web3 data inside third-party applications.
- **Contributor network** — A staged network concept for rewarding search activity and, on the roadmap, data contribution, validation, indexing, storage, and compute.

## Achievements

- Raised $6 million across seed, extended-seed, and Pre-A rounds by April 2024.
- Secured an additional strategic investment from Aptos in August 2024, with the amount undisclosed.
- Joined the TZ APAC ecosystem effort and demonstrated AI-assisted Web3 search in 2023.
- Released a Web3-focused AI search experience, browser extension, and developer SDK.
- Maintains a public GitHub organization and developer/community channels across Medium, Telegram, Discord, LinkedIn, and X.

## Latest updates

- **2023-06** — Adot and TZ APAC announced work on search and data-retrieval services for the Tezos ecosystem.
- **2023-11** — Adot described its AI Search, browser extension, and Web SDK in a public product launch post.
- **2024-04** — The company completed a $3 million Pre-A round, bringing disclosed funding to $6 million.
- **2024-08** — Aptos made an undisclosed strategic investment and entered an ecosystem collaboration with Adot.
- **2025-02** — ChimpX AI publicly announced a partnership with Adot around Web3 search and AI.

## Links

- Website: https://a.xyz
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/hiadotai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Adot_web3
- GitHub: https://github.com/adotweb3

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Last updated: 2026-08-10