Why Now account card · exa.ai · slug exa
Honesty badge and every tool count on this page are copied from directory.json at build time. Authored company JSON cannot override them. Public-company intel source of record is fin45 / GTM Signals Postgres, not this repo.
Exa is an applied AI lab building a perfect search engine unlike the world has ever seen.
receipt: https://exa.ai/about · as_of 2026-09-21 · Vendor about page opening sentence. Verbatim.
why_now abstains. No verbatim public quote with a resolvable receipt is on this record. Empty is honest; it is not a missing scoop.
why_now needs a verbatim quote and a resolvable receipt_url. Abstain (empty array) if the quote is weak or unpublished.
account_id is a feed value only. This repo does not mint acc_ from the slug. entry_point_account_id is the proved parent id, else this record's account_id, else null. Never a tenant go-after id. linkedin_company_url is copied from identity.linkedin_url only when that URL is a LinkedIn company or school page. The enrichment sidecar may supply that URL with a receipt; --apply-identity copies it here when this field is null.
family is empty. parent_account_id is null. subsidiaries is empty. No EX-21 proved nodes are on this record.
entry_point_account_id: null. family.subsidiaries takes EX-21 proved nodes only. Do not guess children. parent_account_id is proved parent only.
executives is empty. Filing-roster and licensed sources only. No email. No phone. Empty is not a claim this company has no officers.
| name | role | roster source | as_of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will Bryk | CEO | vendor about / team roster | 2026-09-21 |
| Jeff Wang | Co-founder | vendor about / team roster | 2026-09-21 |
Public roster only. No email. No phone. profile_url is a public bio, not a contact. company-v1.executives stays the filing-roster field and may still be empty.
receipt: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server · as_of 2026-09-08 · Resolved in github_orgs.json for 01-exa (rule 1, website exa.ai).
| repo | party | relevance | as_of |
|---|---|---|---|
| exa-labs/exa-mcp-server | first-party | First-party MCP server named on the directory entry and on exa.ai/mcp. Hosted endpoint is a different surface (mcp.exa.ai/mcp). | 2026-09-21 |
community repos stay community. They never become official. Tool counts stay on directory.json.
Directory honesty badge is official. That badge is copied from 01-exa (mcp_status official, last_checked 2026-09-03). Exa publishes a first-party open-source server at https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server and documents a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp on https://exa.ai/mcp. The directory entry is BENCH-TESTED on the tool row only. This company page does not copy that bench onto other companies and does not invent a tool count.
Directory honesty badge on this sidecar: official. This prose cannot invent official or a tool count.
| kind | url | note |
|---|---|---|
| first-party-repo | https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server | Primary directory mcp_url on 01-exa. |
| hosted-endpoint | https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp | Named on exa.ai/mcp. The 2026-09-03 bench ran against this host. Snapshot, not a promise. |
| vendor-docs | https://exa.ai/mcp | Vendor MCP landing page. |
| directory-entry | https://andrewcmcguire.com/gtm-directory/tools/exa | Honesty, bench, and tool counts live on the directory entry. |
receipt: https://exa.ai/mcp · as_of 2026-09-21
receipt: https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-mcp-server · as_of 2026-09-21
Locator only: slug, page_url, listing_url, mcp_url, plus ticker and domain when present. This is not an MCP status and not a tool count.
| Product | MCP status | Tools catalogued | Endpoint probe | last_checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exa | Official MCP | 11 named, harvested 2026-09-27, evidence live-list, repo party first-party | repo or package: install and run locally | 2026-09-03 |
Company honesty_badge is the strongest mcp_status_bucket among linked canonical directory entries, in order official, community, unknown, none-found. n-a is ignored. Mixed products stay visible on the page; the badge does not hide a none-found sibling. Derived badge for this page: official. A catalogued tool is a name a server published. Nobody has called it unless tier is BENCH-TESTED. 1 of 1,252 directory entries are bench tested.
A search API that returns web pages and structured results ranked by semantic/meaning similarity to a query (embeddings-based) rather than keyword matching, plus tools to fetch page contents and get LLM-generated answers with citations; used in GTM stacks...
Product rollup by domain: vendor page (existing /vendors/ surface, not this company record).
legal_name and domain from directory entry 01-exa. Private company: ticker and cik stay null. linkedin_company_url is the public LinkedIn company page (receipt on the sidecar; about HTML had no sameAs). mcp_package_hint.mcp_url is the first URL on 01-exa. account_id, family, why_now, and company-v1 executives are unissued or empty.
Enrichment is company-level only. No tenant book, no ICP, no go-after, no contact harvest.
This is a Why Now account card, not a Scoops or ZoomInfo clone. It does not invent an official MCP server. It does not invent a tool count. It does not carry tenant book, ICP, go-after, email, or phone. Job tags on the linked entries mean the vendor says the product does that job. 1 of 1,252 directory entries are bench tested. Enrichment sidecar fields are receipt-gated and may be empty.
URL: /gtm-directory/companies/exa/. Schema: company-v1 plus
enrichment-v1. Last enriched 2026-09-21. Data baked 2026-09-27 by build_directory.py (phase 1).
why_now abstains. company-v1 executives empty (no filing roster). Sidecar executives are the two people the about page labels CEO and Co-founder. Do not copy BENCH-TESTED from the Exa tool onto other companies.