> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tako.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Tako is a search engine for visualizing and sharing the world's knowledge.

## Why Tako?

Traditional search APIs return a ranked list of links. But here's where it breaks for agents: a search result is just a link. The agent still has to crawl it, parse it, pray the number is current, and hope it didn't hallucinate the rest.

We don't think the future of development is agents reading webpages faster. It's agents getting structured, real-time data pulled directly from the source.

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  **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.
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That's Tako: a real-time knowledge API. Ask a question and get a synthesized, source-attributed answer — or dispatch a deep-research agent — all grounded in structured [knowledge cards](/documentation/getting-started/what-is-tako/knowledge-cards): typed data, named sources, and methodology, pulled straight from trusted providers across finance, macroeconomics, geopolitics, sports, and weather. Your model gets the data directly — far more compact than crawling pages. And where structured data isn't the right fit, Tako covers the live web for you too, made agent-ready: web search results in [Search](/documentation/integrating-tako/search/overview), blended into the synthesized [Answer](/documentation/integrating-tako/answer/overview), and full extracted page contents through [Contents](/documentation/integrating-tako/contents/overview) — so you get broad, accurate coverage without ever crawling a page yourself.

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      <span className="text-sm font-medium text-gray-900 dark:text-gray-100">Who will win the 2026 FIFA World Cup?</span>
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      <p className="mt-4 text-sm text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">One <a href="/documentation/getting-started/what-is-tako/knowledge-cards" className="underline decoration-gray-300 underline-offset-2 hover:decoration-gray-500 dark:decoration-gray-600">knowledge card</a> — live win probabilities with their named source and methodology. Your agent reads the values directly, or embeds the chart as-is.</p>
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            <div className="text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">espn.com › soccer › fifa-world-cup</div>
            <span className="text-sm font-medium text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400">2026 World Cup: Latest odds and favorites to win</span>
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Updated odds and expert predictions for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the leading contenders and dark horses.</p>
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            <div className="text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">oddschecker.com › football › world-cup › winner</div>
            <span className="text-sm font-medium text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400">World Cup 2026 Winner Odds & Betting</span>
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Compare 2026 World Cup outright winner odds across bookmakers, refreshed throughout the tournament.</p>
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            <div className="text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">bbc.com › sport › football › world-cup</div>
            <span className="text-sm font-medium text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400">World Cup 2026 predictions: Who will lift the trophy?</span>
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">BBC Sport pundits give their picks for the 2026 World Cup and rate every contender's chances.</p>
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            <div className="text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">sportingnews.com › soccer › world-cup-2026</div>
            <span className="text-sm font-medium text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400">World Cup 2026 favorites: Ranking the contenders</span>
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Ranking the teams most likely to win the 2026 World Cup, from clear favorites to long shots.</p>
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            <div className="text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">forbes.com › betting › world-cup-2026-odds</div>
            <span className="text-sm font-medium text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400">2026 FIFA World Cup Odds: France and Argentina lead</span>
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">A look at the current title odds for the 2026 World Cup and where the betting value lies.</p>
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            <div className="text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">goal.com › en-us › world-cup</div>
            <span className="text-sm font-medium text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400">World Cup 2026: Who are the favorites to win?</span>
            <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">Everything you need to know about the 2026 World Cup favorites, contenders, and outsiders.</p>
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      <p className="mt-4 text-sm text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400"><em>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.</em></p>
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### Tako vs. traditional search APIs

|                        | 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**           | Curated data providers *plus* the live web              | 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               |

## How Tako works

<Card title="Trusted knowledge, directly indexed" icon="handshake" href="/documentation/getting-started/what-is-tako/data-sources">
  Tako pulls from high-quality, structured data across domains like finance, macroeconomics, geopolitics, sports, and weather. Much of this data changes frequently and isn’t easily accessible via traditional crawling. We go straight to the source
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<Card title="Knowledge cards, interactive and shareable" icon="cards-blank" href="/documentation/getting-started/what-is-tako/knowledge-cards">
  Our search results come in the form of knowledge cards - visual, interactive representations of retrieved data. Each card is generated based on the semantic meaning of your prompt and built to be effortlessly embedded in stories, apps, or workflows.
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<Card title="Search, reimagined for analysts and agents" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/documentation/integrating-tako/search/overview">
  Tako delivers relevant knowledge cards in response to natural language queries - ideal for deep questions and dynamic use cases. You can embed our engine directly in your application to make real-time, trusted data instantly accessible for your users.
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## Who it's for

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  <Card title="For users" icon="user">
    We remove the grunt work required to turn your questions into persuasive, evidence-backed answers.
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  <Card title="For AI developers" icon="code">
    We make your results more accurate, real-time, citable, and engaging.
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