Tako is the knowledge layer for agents, grounding your AI with the most accurate proprietary data and web content.
Tako grounds your agent in two kinds of knowledge at once: proprietary structured data from trusted providers, and full web search. One API returns typed values with named sources when curated data exists, and agent-ready web results and page text for everything else. That combination is the point. A pure data API misses most questions, and a pure web search API makes your agent do the reading.Traditional search APIs stop at a ranked list of links. Your agent still has to open each page, parse it, reconcile numbers that disagree, and hope nothing went stale. That works for reading the news. It breaks down when the answer has to be right.Ask Tako a question and you get a synthesized, source-attributed answer, or dispatch a deep-research agent. Both are grounded in knowledge cards: typed data with named sources and methodology, pulled straight from providers across finance, macroeconomics, geopolitics, sports, and weather. When the answer lives on the open web instead, the same call covers it: web results in Search, blended into Answer, and full page text through Contents. Your agent never crawls a page.
Structured data has a defined shape: typed fields, values, and units (think rows and columns, or JSON), each with named sources attached, so your model can read it directly. Unstructured data is the opposite: raw web pages and text your model has to crawl, parse, and interpret before it can trust a single number.
Example query·Who will win the 2026 FIFA World Cup?
Takocurated data + live web
One knowledge card: live win probabilities with their named source and methodology. Your agent reads the values directly, or embeds the chart as is.
Traditional search & LLM-search APIsraw web text
espn.com › soccer › fifa-world-cup
2026 World Cup: Latest odds and favorites to win
Updated odds and expert predictions for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the leading contenders and dark horses.
oddschecker.com › football › world-cup › winner
World Cup 2026 Winner Odds & Betting
Compare 2026 World Cup outright winner odds across bookmakers, refreshed throughout the tournament.
bbc.com › sport › football › world-cup
World Cup 2026 predictions: Who will lift the trophy?
BBC Sport pundits give their picks for the 2026 World Cup and rate every contender’s chances.
sportingnews.com › soccer › world-cup-2026
World Cup 2026 favorites: Ranking the contenders
Ranking the teams most likely to win the 2026 World Cup, from clear favorites to long shots.
forbes.com › betting › world-cup-2026-odds
2026 FIFA World Cup Odds: France and Argentina lead
A look at the current title odds for the 2026 World Cup and where the betting value lies.
goal.com › en-us › world-cup
World Cup 2026: Who are the favorites to win?
Everything you need to know about the 2026 World Cup favorites, contenders, and outsiders.
Your agent still has to open each link, parse the page, reconcile numbers that disagree, and hope they’re current. Every step is glue code you write, run, and spend tokens on.
Tako
Traditional search & LLM-search APIs
What comes back
Typed, structured data: values, units, and time series
Cleaned web text: links, snippets, or page chunks
Source attribution
A named data provider and methodology, per value
A URL the text was scraped from
Coverage
Proprietary data providers plus full web search
Ranked open web only
Output
An interactive knowledge card, ready to render
Raw text your model still has to parse
Post-processing
None. Data arrives typed and structured
Crawl, parse, dedupe, and reconcile it yourself
Correctness
Authoritative by named source
Ranked by relevance. You verify it
Want the deeper comparison, with benchmarks against the major web search APIs? Read Tako vs. web search APIs.
Tako pulls high-quality, structured data across domains like finance, macroeconomics, geopolitics, sports, and weather. Much of it changes fast and can’t be crawled reliably, so we go straight to the source.
Full web search, agent ready
When the answer lives on the open web, Tako searches it for you and returns results and full page text your model can use directly. No crawler, no parser, no glue code.
Knowledge cards, interactive and shareable
Results come back as knowledge cards: visual, interactive representations of the retrieved data. Each card is built from the meaning of your query and drops straight into stories, apps, or workflows.
Search, built for analysts and agents
Ask in natural language and get the relevant cards back. Embed the engine in your application and your users get real-time, trusted data without leaving it.
