A beautiful offline-search engine met a market that would not pay. One customer request later, two French engineers turned the same hard-won speed into an API business used by Under Armour, Lacoste, Slack and thousands more.

Before Captain became a search engine for AI agents, its CEO built a translation app, tested a soy-based carton, and made a code checker review itself. The connecting idea is simple: useful intelligence begins with finding the right evidence.