Tako

Tako Inc. operates an answer engine API for authoritative data, aimed at grounding AI applications and agents. It combines a curated index of licensed, structured data with web search, and returns cited answers both as JSON and as "knowledge cards" — charts, tables and maps that can be embedded elsewhere. The company positions the product as purpose-built for data analysis, visualization and artifact generation, in contrast to search tools that return unstructured text.

The product line is organized as a family of APIs: a Search API (natural-language queries returning structured knowledge cards grounded in the curated data index and the web), an Answer API (direct cited answers to natural-language questions), a Contents API (the underlying data behind answers plus clean full-page web contents optimized for LLMs), and an Agent API (asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment). Official Python and TypeScript SDKs handle authentication, requests and response parsing, and Tako also distributes a free MCP server and plugin so agents can access its data. Data coverage spans weather (forecasts, air quality, climate averages), equities across exchanges including NYSE, Nasdaq and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, prices (cryptocurrencies, FX, US Treasury yield curves), sports (NFL, NBA, Champions League), politics (polling, prediction markets, election results), macroeconomics (trade metrics, US money supply, employment statistics) and company data (earnings and estimates, private company funding, web traffic analytics).

For enterprise buyers, Tako advertises zero data retention on request processing, SOC 2 verification through independent audit, and uptime and response-time SLAs with dedicated support. Each knowledge card is documented with sources, timestamps and, where applicable, methodology notes.