Keenable

About Keenable

Keenable (Keenable.ai) is a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure company building an independent web search and retrieval platform for AI labs and agents. It describes itself on LinkedIn as building the search engine for AI agents, the layer that connects agents to world knowledge and, in future, to each other, rather than another search engine designed for human readers.

The platform runs its own crawler, index and ranking, and continuously learns from agent usage so that quality improves the more it is used. The company reports an index of more than 100 billion documents, response times under 250 ms at the 95th percentile in US East and pricing from $1 per 1,000 requests at volume. Developers reach it through a low-latency Search API and a Fetcher API that returns model-ready page content, with a console and documentation, and a planned Web Query Language is meant to let agents synthesise answers across many sources.

Keenable publishes benchmark results comparing result quality against cost across search providers, using the NEEDLE benchmark, and positions itself as a high-quality, low-cost alternative to the large search engines and to other search APIs for agents. It says the platform is in production at several AI labs and inference providers, and its team includes people with experience in running large web search and web infrastructure at major internet companies.

The business model is usage-based API access sold to AI labs, inference providers and agent builders, with direct sales for larger customers. Keenable competes in the web search and retrieval market for AI, with a focus on independence from incumbent search engines, freshness, speed and price.