Web Search

Hi there,

Today, we're excited to launch Web Search!

Web search is massively important for analytics agents. But it also should be very scary.

Why is it so complicated for analytics agents? Because they have access to private data, which is the third leg of Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta. It's extremely important that web search is secure for an analytics agent who has access to sensitive company data.

What if the agent sees some malicious context from the web search and takes an unexpected action to send that data out of your system? Some of your most precious and sensitive data could be exfiltrated by a hacker just like that. In seconds.

That's why we've designed a custom web-search implementation natively for data agents. It's not possible for our agent to exfiltrate data because we carefully craft its tools so that capability doesn’t exist.

With secure web search, our customer use cases are incredible:

• One retail customer had a competitor shut down several stores. They used web search to find those store locations and launch targeted promos in the area, tuned with their internal marketing data.
• One manufacturer customer tracked how they meet their SLA commitments to their customers, and used web search to find the latest news that might be impacting that customer.
• A software customer cross-references product launch data with competitor activities, to understand how usage spikes and then decays after big launches.

Web search with your data is amazing (when it's secure). Here's what that looks like →