Exa AI Research Blog
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TL;DR
- AI writing assistant aimed to solve research needs for students, professionals, and writers.
- Key obstacles included citation friction, accuracy concerns, and educational market barriers.
- A real-time citation engine was built, integrating research discovery and citation formatting using Exa's search endpoint and neural search.
- Features include contextual citation suggestions and live content extraction from academic papers.
- Exa's Search Endpoint offers neural search for academic content, real-time content extraction, and top source coverage.
- The citation feature led to revenue growth from under $1M to $6M ARR in one year.
- Free-to-paid user conversion increased by 10%.
- The tool gained adoption in over 230 educational institutions.