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Find primary-source evidence when ordinary search falls short.

Give your agent search, page retrieval, and specialist data to follow a question back to its original evidence.

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Compare three US battery suppliers for a 100 MWh storage project: operating factories, delivered projects, safety certifications, and warranty exclusions. Check marketing claims against filings and certification records, and flag anything you cannot verify.

  1. Exa

    Semantic search

  2. Parallel

    Web research

  3. Serper

    Search discovery

  4. Firecrawl

    Web extraction

Research brief

$0.024Example calls

Primary-source evidence with traceable support

Illustrative call costs

Research brief ready

Illustrative single-call samples, not the total cost or a completed result of this prompt. Your agent checks availability, coverage, and pricing for the actual request.

Executable recipe

Web research brief

Search the web for a topic with Exa, then read the full text of every result for a sourced brief.

  • topicResearch topic or question, phrased as a search query.
  • result_countNumber of search results to read.Default 5
mercator call build_recipe_plan --input '{"recipe_id":"web-research-brief","parameters":{"topic":"Series A fintech startups in Berlin"}}'
Recipe docs

Builds a plan for free. Quote it, then create a job; you pay only for the quoted calls.

How your agent uses Mercator

Find providers and pay per call through one connection. Your agent chooses the next call based on what it learns.

Search with specialist sources

  • Choose a search engine for the question
  • Filter by topic, date, and source
  • Try another index when evidence is missing

Combine evidence across formats

  • Retrieve source pages behind search results
  • Extract tables from scanned images
  • Keep each claim linked to its source

Cross-check important claims

  • Trace important claims to original documents
  • Compare dates, definitions, and relevant limitations
  • Flag conflicting or missing evidence

The sources you need.
And many more.

Connect any service that supports MPP or x402. Mercator makes it available to agents.

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