Tavily: artificial intelligence features and setup

Overview

Tavily is designed for agents that need to search the web in real time rather than rely only on an internal knowledge base. Call the API to get results and extract content from pages for an answer or research. It is a search layer, not the organization’s final citation engine. Before using it in a customer workflow, check the sources, the websites’ terms of use, and what happens when there is no reliable result.

Features

• API for web search by AI agents
• Real-time extraction of page content
• Integration with workflows that need current context from the web

Business uses

• A research agent that gathers current sources before preparing an internal summary
• Checking a public announcement before answering a customer’s question about an external product

Getting started

• Send a test query and save the list of returned sources.
• Compare the extracted content with the original page in one case.
• Define what happens when there are no results or a source is blocked.

What to check

• A search result does not confirm that a fact is correct unless you read the source.
• Check terms of use and privacy before extracting content from websites at scale.