askFinz builds its own index of the web — a 3-minute pitch

Key points

Key takeaways from askFinz's 3-minute product pitch for askFinz (September 2026):

Own index, not rented search. askFinz argues most AI products rent their search externally, which lets a third party set price, coverage and ceiling. It built its own index instead and says it pays nobody per query, so an agent can search dozens of times on a single question.

Read in full, filed by meaning. Every page is read in full and stored by what it means, not just its words, in the context of its site. Pages are filed across 49 typed collections — research, law, standards, patents, filings, clinical trials, news and more.

Structured sources. A clinical trial keeps its phase, sponsor and registry number, and documents are split into searchable passages, each carrying its source.

Scale today. The pitch cites more than 5.6 million indexed pages, more than 39 million passages and more than 450,000 pages read every day.

Passages, not links. Instead of stopping at ten blue links, one question reaches across every collection and returns the passages that answer it, each with its source.

Built for agents. askFinz Search serves people, agents and models; Chat and Research connect to every major model provider with no lock-in, the browser extension brings over 380 AI models to a side panel that reads the current page and answers with sources, and the desktop app is an AI browser driven by agents.

Workspaces and Finance. Workspaces share one sign-in and one memory across Research, News, Finance, Code, Travel, Map, Mail and 14 more. askFinz Finance continues the work of FinRock.ai, which the company acquired.

Distributed infrastructure and pricing. Indexer OS installs with one line on Windows, macOS and Linux, or via Docker, and turns spare machines into dedicated nodes pooled into one index — more capacity is another machine, not a datacentre. The extension and desktop app cost about €7 a month with every model and no token caps, search included at 75 cents per 1,000 searches, and workspaces start free for students, professionals and teams.

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