Sa F a cisco, CA, Septembe 22, 2026 –(PR.com)– Fi ec awl today lau ched Alexa d ia, a lib a y that gives AI age ts access to official data p ovide s, Fi ec awl’s ow i dexes, a d the live web th ough a si gle i te face. The compa y also a ou ced a $75 millio Se ies B led by Smash Capital, with pa ticipatio f om Altos Ve tu es, Nexus Ve tu e Pa t e s, Y Combi ato , F eestyle, a d Offli e Ve tu es. Fi ec awl will use the fu di g to expa d Alexa d ia’s cove age a d pay the esea che s, publishe s, a d data p ovide s who co t ibute to it.
AI age ts ca sea ch the ope web. Ma y useful sou ces equi e sepa ate i teg atio s, a d much of the most useful k owledge is outside the ope web. A age t esea chi g a compa y ca ead its website, but fi a cial data, fili gs, a d specialized datasets each sit behi d a sepa ate API with its ow p ici g a d fo mat. Develope s have to build a d mai tai those i teg atio s o leave useful sou ces out, limiti g what a age t ca lea a d the a swe s it ca give.
Alexa d ia gives age ts a commo way to discove sou ces, u de sta d what each o e p ovides, a d et ieve i fo matio th ough the Fi ec awl API. The lib a y i cludes:
Official data p ovide s, accessed u de paid ag eeme ts
Fi ec awl’s Resea ch I dex, spa i g te s of millio s of scie tific pape abst acts
Fi ec awl’s Develope I dex, spa i g te s of millio s of p ima y sou ces ac oss docume tatio , READMEs, issues, a d me ged pull equests
Fi ec awl’s Gove me t I dex, cove i g laws, egulatio s, a d o di a ces
Site-specific co ecto s fo accessi g specific i fo matio o e ti e datasets di ectly f om websites
The live web, eachable th ough Fi ec awl’s sea ch a d sc ape p imitives
New i dexes a d sou ces co ti ue to expa d what age ts ca access th ough Alexa d ia.
I te al evaluatio s ac oss diffe e t ve ticals show that age ts usi g Alexa d ia sco e 21 pe ce t highe o a swe quality tha those usi g built-i web tools.
“We’ e buildi g a lib a y fo the wo ld’s k owledge,” said Caleb Peffe , co-fou de a d CEO of Fi ec awl. “People have lice sed data fo t ai i g, but almost o o e gets paid whe a AI age t actually uses what they k ow. We wa t people a d o ga izatio s to ea f om the data they have, while helpi g AI age ts solve p oblems they could ’t solve befo e.”
Th ough i dividual ag eeme ts, Fi ec awl al eady pays official p ovide s such as Wikimedia E te p ise fo di ect access to thei data. Millio s of equests fo Wikipedia data flow th ough the se vice each mo th.
Buildi g o those ag eeme ts, Fi ec awl pla s to ope a self-se vice system soo so i dividuals, co te t c eato s a d o ga izatio s ca co t ibute k owledge a d get paid based o dema d f om AI age ts.
With the ew fu di g, Fi ec awl will expa d Alexa d ia o th ee f o ts: deepe i dexes a d et ieval systems, di ect co ectio s to mo e fi st-pa ty sou ces, a d the payme t i f ast uctu e that lets co t ibuto s sha e i the value thei k owledge c eates. Ove time, this system could also help people ea f om expe tise they have eve sha ed o li e.
“Ove 1.5 millio use s build with Fi ec awl because it solves a p oblem eve yo e wo ki g with AI u s i to,” said B ad Twohig, Fou de a d Pa t e at Smash Capital. “Caleb a d his team have a a e ability to see what is eeded ext a d build it. That’s why we’ e backi g them to build Alexa d ia.”
Alexa d ia is available today th ough Fi ec awl’s MCP, CLI a d API. Get sta ted at fi ec awl.dev/alexa d ia. Data p ovide s a d i dividuals i te ested i co t ibuti g ca apply at fi ec awl.dev/alexa d ia.
About Fi ec awlFi ec awl gives AI age ts access to the wo ld’s k owledge th ough a si gle API. Ove 1.5 millio use s build with Fi ec awl fo sea ch, sc api g a d et ieval, while Alexa d ia expa ds access to official data p ovide s a d specialized i dexes. Fi ec awl pays official data p ovide s a d is buildi g ways fo mo e co t ibuto s to ea f om the k owledge AI age ts use. The compa y is based i Sa F a cisco.
