Answer

Capabilities

Answer is the fastest way to get a written, source-attributed answer from Tako. It runs the same retrieval as Search — Tako’s structured knowledge cards and the live web — and synthesizes the best answer from both into one response, returned in a single synchronous call you can use inline.

One fast, synchronous call

A single request returns a finished answer — no dispatching, polling, or retrieval to orchestrate. Fast enough to drop inline into a chat, an assistant, or an agentic loop.

Built on Tako Search

Answer grounds on the same retrieval as Search — structured knowledge cards plus the live web — then writes the answer over them, so you get prose and the results that produced it in one call.

Ready to show, with receipts

Every answer ships with the Tako cards and web results that back it — named sources and methodology — so it’s citable, auditable, and safe to drop straight into a user-facing surface.

Choosing between Tako’s surfaces (see the full comparison):

Surface	What it’s for
Answer	A written, source-attributed answer in one call.
Search	Fast, parallel retrieval of structured data and cards, no synthesized answer.
Answer Agent	Deep research synthesizing a cited answer backed by visualizations.
Retrieval Agent	Multi-step research returning schema-defined structured data and cards.

Example

cURL
Python

curl -X POST https://tako.com/api/v1/answer \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "How have Nvidia and AMD headcount changed since 2013?"
  }'

pip install tako-sdk

import os
from tako import Configuration, SearchRequest
from tako.lib import Tako

config = Configuration()
config.api_key["apiKey"] = os.environ["TAKO_API_KEY"]
client = Tako(config)

response = client.answer(SearchRequest(query="How have Nvidia and AMD headcount changed since 2013?"))
print(response.answer)
for card in response.cards or []:
    print(card.title, card.webpage_url)

Example Result

Answer: “Nvidia has grown to about 36,000 full-time employees as of the end of 2024 — up roughly 309% from about 8,800 in 2013. AMD reached about 28,000 over the same period, giving Nvidia both the larger workforce and the faster growth of the two.”

Use cases

Each of these is the same call shown above with a different query. Only the last one takes a parameter you haven’t seen yet. Answer a question mid-conversation. A support bot or assistant hits a data question it can’t answer from its own context, and one call returns finished prose plus the cards that back it — no retrieval to orchestrate. "How did the S&P 500 do this week?" Keep generated content current. Re-run the same query on a schedule and the prose refreshes with the data, so a page’s words and its numbers never drift apart. "Latest US CPI, year over year" Attribute every claim. Read card.sources and card.methodologies on each returned card to cite the answer, so a reader can check it rather than trust it. "Nvidia revenue growth" Ground in curated data only. Pass sources to skip the web and answer from Tako’s licensed data alone — the right choice when a web result would weaken an answer rather than strengthen it.

response = client.answer(SearchRequest(query="United States military expenditure", sources={"data": {}}))

Want the data behind a card as CSV? Pass a card’s URL to Contents to download its underlying data — or inline it here with include_contents.

By consuming the answer and its grounding information, you can keep your content always up to date and accurate.

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Capabilities

One fast, synchronous call

Built on Tako Search

Ready to show, with receipts

Example

Use cases

​Capabilities

One fast, synchronous call

Built on Tako Search

Ready to show, with receipts

​Example

​Use cases

Capabilities

Example

Use cases