# You.com

> You.com is an AI search infrastructure company that supplies live web search, content extraction, cited answers and deep research APIs to developers and enterprises. It began as a consumer search engine and shifted toward selling its underlying technology to other AI products.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Richard Socher (Co-founder and CEO), Bryan McCann (Co-founder; former CTO, now adviser and board member)
- **Products:** Web Search API, Contents API, Answer API, Research API, Finance Research API
- **Notable:** You.com reported more than 1 billion monthly API queries in September 2025., It reported more than 100,000 agents built on its platform over the preceding 12 months., Its September 2025 Series C valued the company at $1.5 billion.

## Products & services

- **Web Search API** — Real-time web and news results for AI applications and agents.
- **Contents API** — Clean extraction of page content from known URLs.
- **Answer API** — Fast synthesized answers with checked citations and supporting excerpts.
- **Research API** — Multi-step, source-backed investigations with effort tiers.
- **Finance Research API** — Research over filings, fundamentals, markets and financial news.
- **ARI** — Enterprise research agent that combines public and private sources.
- **You.com Chat** — Consumer AI chat and search product with live web information.

## Achievements

- You.com reported more than 1 billion monthly API queries in September 2025.
- It reported more than 100,000 agents built on its platform over the preceding 12 months.
- Its September 2025 Series C valued the company at $1.5 billion.
- It acquired the Graft team and technology in October 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Added a Knowledge option for current stock, sports, cryptocurrency and other structured facts in Web Search.
- **2026-08** — Launched the Answer API for quick answers with verified citations.
- **2026-05** — Introduced Finance Research API.
- **2026-03** — Promoted founding engineer Saahil Jain to CTO; co-founder Bryan McCann became an adviser and remained on the board.
- **2025-10** — Acquired Graft team and technology.

## Links

- Website: https://you.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/youdotcom/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/youdotcom
- GitHub: https://github.com/youdotcom-oss
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/YouSearchEngine/

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Last updated: 2026-09-30