Exa Connect Unlocks Private Commercial Data for AI Agents

Exa Connect is live, and it marks a meaningful shift in what AI agents can actually know. Until now, agents built on Exa's search infrastructure were limited to the public web. With Connect, they can reach into the walled gardens of premium commercial data , company intelligence, web traffic analytics, startup funding signals, healthcare provider databases, and more , all through a single Exa API request.

What just shipped

The pitch is straightforward: connect your agents to the world's public and private data, accessing thousands of data providers through a single Exa request. Launch partners include some of the most widely used commercial data sources in enterprise workflows:

• ZoomInfo , 500M+ verified contacts and a GTM Context Graph that processes 1.5B+ data points daily to surface in-market accounts.
• Crunchbase , natural-language search across 4M+ private companies, plus AI predictions on funding, growth, acquisitions, IPOs, closure, and layoffs (~100K predictions per month).
• Similarweb , web analytics covering traffic estimates, global rankings, and competitor discovery for any domain.
• Harmonic , startup intelligence with company, founder, funding, and hiring signals.
• DefinitiveHealthcare , provider, facility, and organization data for commercial healthcare workflows.
• Faraday AI , identity and prediction data for audience building and personalization.
• DataBento and Alpha Vantage , financial market data.
• Particle News , podcast transcript search with speaker attribution and timestamps.

Some providers (Similarweb, Baselayer, Fiber.ai, Jinko, Affiliate.com, Financial Datasets, Particle News) are available directly through the playground today. Others , ZoomInfo, Crunchbase, Harmonic, DefinitiveHealthcare, Faraday AI, Intellizence, and Kernel , require contacting Exa's sales team to set up. Exa is also opening the marketplace to new providers, letting any data company set their own prices and get discovered by agents on the web.