company-research

Q: How do I install company-research?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/exa-labs/agent-skills --skill company-research in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/company-research/ (personal) or .claude/skills/company-research/ (project).

by exa-labsProductivity & Automation

Company research using Exa. Finds company info, competitors, news, financials, LinkedIn profiles, builds company lists. Use when researching companies, doing competitor analysis, market research, or building company lists.

Installs: 981
Last 24h: +10
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Security: Not audited

Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/exa-labs/agent-skills --skill company-research

01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
02
Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads company-research automatically when relevant.
03
Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

Company Research

Tool Selection (Critical)

Two Exa surfaces, two jobs:

Exa Agent (agent_run) — the default for company research. Use it for deep dives, competitor analysis, multi-angle research (product + funding + news + people), and building company lists. One Agent run handles query decomposition, multi-step searching, and synthesis internally — do not orchestrate many manual searches for work an Agent run covers.
web_search_advanced_exa — quick, low-latency lookups: a fast category: "company" discovery pass, a single news check, or finding a homepage.

Do NOT use other Exa tools.

Deep Dives and Lists: Exa Agent

Agent runs may stream to completion in one call. If a run outlives the MCP call window, continue waiting with its returned run ID.

Call agent_run with a natural-language query and, when you want repeatable structure, an outputSchema (bound arrays with maxItems).
If it returns status: "running" with a runId, call agent_run again with only that runId until outputReady is true.
Read output.text or output.structured, plus output.grounding citations, from the agent_run result.

Useful inputs: systemPrompt (source preferences, dedup rules), input.exclusion (companies to avoid), previousRunId (a new follow-up run based on a completed run), effort ("low" default; "auto" or "high" for more depth).

Example: company deep dive

agent_run {
  "query": "Research Anthropic: product lines, funding history and valuation, key executives, main competitors, and notable news from the last 6 months.",
  "effort": "auto",
  "outputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "overview": { "type": "string" },
      "funding": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "round": { "type": "string" }, "amount": { "type": "string" }, "date": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["round"] } },
      "competitors": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "string" } },
      "key_people": { "type": "array", "maxItems": 10, "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": "string" } }, "required": ["name", "title"] } }
    },
    "required": ["overview", "competitors"]
  }
}

Example: build a company list

agent_run {
  "query": "Find 25 AI infrastructure startups headquartered in San Francisco. For each, include what they build and their latest funding stage.",
  "effort": "auto",
  "outputSchema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "companies": {
        "type": "array",
        "maxItems": 25,
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": { "type": "string" },
            "website": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
            "description": { "type": "string", "description": "in 12 words or less" },
            "funding_stage": { "type": "string" }
          },
          "required": ["name", "website", "description"]
        }
      }
    },
    "required": ["companies"]
  }
}

Quick Lookups: Advanced Search

Use web_search_advanced_exa when a single fast search answers the question. Tune numResults to intent (a few → 10-20; comprehensive → 50-100; specified → match it).

Category-Specific Filter Restrictions

Unsupported category/filter combinations return 400 errors:

category: "company" does not support published-date or crawl-date filters, excludeDomains, or exact-text filters; express constraints like "founded after 2020" in the query instead
category: "people" does not support published-date, crawl-date, domain, or exact-text filters; put all filtering in the natural-language query
Without a category (or with news), domain and date filters work fine

Examples

Discovery pass:

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "AI infrastructure startups San Francisco",
  "category": "company",
  "numResults": 20,
  "type": "auto"
}

News check:

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "Anthropic AI safety",
  "category": "news",
  "numResults": 15,
  "startPublishedDate": "2025-01-01"
}

Key people:

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "VP Engineering AI infrastructure",
  "category": "people",
  "numResults": 20
}

Token Isolation

Never dump raw search results into main context. Spawn Task agents for Advanced Search calls; for Agent runs, go straight from output.structured to the final answer.

Browser Fallback

Fall back to Claude in Chrome only when content is auth-gated or requires JavaScript rendering.

Output Format

Return:

Results (structured list; one company per row)
Sources (URLs; 1-line relevance each — use output.grounding from Agent runs)
Notes (uncertainty/conflicts)

References

Exa Agent guide: https://exa.ai/docs/agent/quickstart
Company Search reference: https://exa.ai/docs/search/data/companies-people
Exa MCP setup: https://exa.ai/docs/get-started/exa-mcp
Full docs for LLMs: https://exa.ai/docs/llms.txt

FAQ

What does the company-research skill do?

How do I install company-research?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/exa-labs/agent-skills --skill company-research in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/company-research/ (personal) or .claude/skills/company-research/ (project).

Which AI agents can use company-research?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is company-research safe to install?

No partner security audit is available yet. Skills can run commands and scripts, so read the SKILL.md and any bundled files before installing.

Who maintains company-research?

It is published by exa-labs in exa-labs/agent-skills. It has 981 recorded installs.

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company-research

Install

Install

Describe the task

Review the result

SKILL.md

Company Research

Tool Selection (Critical)

Deep Dives and Lists: Exa Agent

Example: company deep dive

Example: build a company list

Quick Lookups: Advanced Search

Categories

Category-Specific Filter Restrictions

Examples

Token Isolation

Browser Fallback

Output Format

References

FAQ

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