Introducing ARI: The First Professional-Grade Research Agent for Business

You.com's newest deep research agent thinks, analyzes up to 400 sources, and creates professional-grade research in under five minutes.

By Richard Socher (CEO), Bryan McCann (CTO), Yew Siang Tang, and Thu Nguyen

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Today, we're introducing ARI (Advanced Research & Insights), our next-generation Deep Research Agent that functions like your own on-demand AI consultant. We’re no strangers to the Deep Research space. We've spent the past year learning directly from real customer usage to build a research agent that delivers powerful results like no other.

ARI stands apart from every other AI agent on the market because it was purpose-built for enterprise use. With ARI, businesses can elevate their strategic decision-making, release products to market faster, and save resources while enhancing productivity. ARI combines insights from public and private data sources, enabling companies to tune it for their specific business needs.

ARI goes beyond any existing research agent. It analyzes 10x more sources than other tools, delivers results 3x faster, and packages everything in polished PDF reports. And that's not all, with slide decks coming soon.

From prompt engineering to professional-grade research

We’ve been working on this for many years, starting with the introduction of prompt engineering in 2018. We were then the first company to give LLMs access to the web in late 2022. Now, ARI is the natural extension of that work, putting all of our experience together to deliver unprecedented value for enterprises.

Unlike other research tools requiring complex prompts, ARI simply needs a natural question. It handles the heavy lifting, breaking down your query into the right research steps automatically:

Trust through transparency

ARI makes research faster and more trustworthy. Every citation links directly to the source data, so you can verify each claim instantly. This includes charts and numbers – you can trace everything back to its source:

ARI combines public web data with internal information for companies while maintaining privacy, giving you insights that consider both public data and your company's specific context.

As Bryan, you.com Co-founder and CTO, noted during development, "With ARI, we've combined scale, speed, and accurate synthesis to provide the most advanced AI research agent capabilities. ARI's breakthrough is its ability to maintain contextual understanding while processing hundreds of sources simultaneously. When combined with chain-of-thought reasoning and extended test-time compute, ARI is able to discover and incorporate adjacent research areas dynamically as analysis progresses."

We’ve heard from our customers that they currently spend thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars on research that takes weeks. Whether you're a CEO making decisions, a financial analyst preparing market research, a journalist covering a new topic, or a consultant preparing for clients, ARI delivers accurate answers faster.

Dr. Dennis Ballwieser, Managing Director at Wort & Bild Verlag, Germany's leading healthcare publisher, shares: "Through our collaboration with you.com, research time has dropped from days to hours, with remarkable accuracy across both German and English content. ARI's ability to analyze hundreds of verifiable sources simultaneously democratizes access to professional-grade research that was previously cost-prohibitive, creating a new category of hyper-personalized healthcare insights."

The future: Everyone becomes a manager of AI

As we build ARI, we envision a future where everyone becomes a manager of AI agents like ARI. You'll define what you want, oversee the work, and apply the insights effectively across every role.

"When every employee has instant access to comprehensive, validated insights that previously required teams of consultants and weeks of work, it changes the speed and quality of business decision-making," said Richard, you.com Co-founder and CEO. "ARI represents a paradigm shift from periodic, expensive research projects to continuous, real-time strategic intelligence."