The problem
Developers train agents to complete tasks. Many tasks have visible finish lines: the code runs, the test passes, or the file exists. Research has no comparable finish line. A researcher can spend ten minutes, two hours, or twenty hours on the same question. All three results can look finished.
Agents stop once they can give a confident answer, before they check more sources or test competing explanations. If you are choosing a company or making an investment, you may reach another decision after the agent does that remaining work. Reporters and investigators face the same risk.
Our belief
Research agents need an effort control. Alongside the prompt, you decide how much work you want the agent to do.
You give Webhound a budget, and it maps that amount to research time. You control research depth by choosing how much time Webhound spends checking sources and following leads.
What Webhound is
Webhound is a research engine for questions where you want to control the work behind the answer. You give it two inputs: a prompt and an effort budget. It uses the budget to investigate across sources, then returns the results in a document you can use.
Webhound serves your agent first. Your agent sends a research task with an effort budget. Webhound handles the search and returns material your agent can use in its own work.
Each run includes a final answer and the working documents behind it. In those documents, you can inspect the sources and see how Webhound reached its conclusion. Your agent can use the same material in its own work.
Who it is for
Use Webhound when missing information costs more than the research. You might use it to choose a market, find a manufacturer, evaluate an executive, or investigate a policy. Reporters can follow leads with it, and technical teams can compare designs. You can also use it for a consequential personal decision.
For a quick question, use a quick tool. Choose Webhound when you want control over the amount of research behind the answer.
Our commitments
- You choose the effort budget. You tell Webhound how much research to do by setting the budget.
- You can inspect the work. Each run includes the working documents and sources behind the final answer.
- Extra work must earn its cost. We judge a larger budget by the new evidence Webhound finds and whether that evidence helps you decide.
- We charge for use. Webhound earns revenue when you choose to run research.