You.com was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, both former Stanford AI researchers who previously led AI research at Salesforce - Socher as Chief Scientist and McCann as Lead AI Researcher. The company began as a privacy-first consumer search engine before pivoting to focus on enterprise AI search infrastructure, where it identified a more pressing need: giving organisations access to accurate, real-time, and citable AI outputs.
The company's core products are its AI search APIs and vertical indexes, which are designed to deliver hallucination-free, citable results for enterprise applications and AI agents. Its API infrastructure processes over one billion calls per month. The technical foundations span deep learning, natural language processing, search, and agent development - with a particular emphasis on trustworthy, verifiable AI outputs rather than generative responses prone to error.
You.com's enterprise customer base includes hundreds of companies, among them 57% of the Fortune 500. The platform is used to power AI applications and agents that require reliable, real-time information retrieval - addressing problems enterprises commonly encounter with disconnected data, untrustworthy model outputs, and rigid tooling.
The founders' research backgrounds predate the current AI wave: their work in deep learning and natural language processing is cited in foundational literature that underpins large language models. You.com describes its mission as building the infrastructure that enables organisations to reason like experts, guided by stated values of truth, clarity, and empathy.
