You.com

You.com, operated by SuSea, Inc., is a Palo Alto, California-based AI company that supplies real-time web data infrastructure for AI systems. Its current product line is a set of APIs: a Web Search API for real-time web and news results, a Contents API that fetches full page content for multiple URLs in selectable formats, a tiered Research API for multi-source synthesis, a Finance Research API that produces cited financial analysis across filings, macro data and multi-step calculations, and an Answer API that returns grounded, cited answers from live web search. The company also markets a Data API for blending internal enterprise data with web results and a latency-optimized Smart API for use cases such as e-commerce chatbots, and it takes on engagements to build custom APIs and AI agents for enterprises.

The company began as a consumer AI search product that let users scroll results horizontally as well as vertically and included a section for open-source code files. In December 2022 it connected large language models to live web data with verifiable citations, then repositioned first as an "AI productivity engine" for knowledge workers and teams and subsequently as an AI infrastructure provider. Its consumer/enterprise application, distributed on iOS as "You.com - Enterprise grade AI," offers access to more than 20 large language models with automatic model selection ("Auto Mode"), document and image upload and analysis, zero data retention, and ARI (Advanced Research & Insights), a deep-research agent the company says can process more than 500 sources and which it reports outperformed OpenAI's Deep Research in 76% of head-to-head tests.

You.com's platform is model-agnostic, routing queries to models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta (Llama) and DeepSeek. Enterprise-oriented features include zero data retention, SOC 2 certification, support for data processing agreements, and custom QPS limits.

Founding story

Founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and a highly cited NLP researcher, and Bryan McCann, former lead AI research scientist at Salesforce. While at Salesforce in 2017 they developed contextualized word vectors, and their 2018 DecaNLP paper pioneered multi-task prompting. The product launched publicly in November 2021, and in December 2022 the pair connected an LLM to live internet data with verifiable citations.

Business model

You.com sells API access to developers and subscription plans and site licenses to teams and enterprises, and also contracts with enterprises to design and build end-to-end AI applications, custom APIs and agents.

Subscription and usage-based pricing: a consumer/professional premium plan reported at $15 per month billed annually, team and enterprise site licenses starting at $25 per seat per month billed annually, free API trials with paid and enterprise API tiers, plus custom enterprise build engagements.

Traction

Launched November 2021; served 1 billion cumulative queries and millions of active users by September 2024, with ARR growth of 500% since January 2024. By September 2025 the company reported processing more than 1 billion queries per month via its API and more than 100,000 agents built on the platform in the prior 12 months. Its iOS app holds a 4.8 rating across about 4,900 ratings.

Latest developments

Announcement of the Answer API delivering grounded, cited answers from real-time web search; a Finance Research API for cited financial analysis; Saahil Jain named CTO (March 2026); and, following the September 2025 Series C, plans to roughly double headcount to about 200 employees, open a San Francisco office and build new products.