Research agents built for depth over speed @ycombinator S23
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Agents are lazy at research. They stop at the first confident answer, even when more research could change it.
Webhound is your agent’s research engine. You use budget to decide how much research a question deserves.
We gave it $5 to investigate a border wall contract. It found an unreported $18M change.
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This is a fantastic product for truly deep research, substantially better than just Codex + Parallel/Exa. Extremely comprehensive results. I highly recommend checking them out.
Agents are lazy at research. They stop at the first confident answer, even when more research could change it.
Webhound is your agent’s research engine. You use budget to decide how much research a question deserves.
We gave it $5 to investigate a border wall contract. It found an unreported $18M change.
Also we’re live on product hunt
producthunt.com/products/web…
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We've been ramble-coding for months at Webhound, so I wrote this up on some things we've learned from using dictation apps to prompt agent
One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.
We asked 50 top investors what they expect founders to know about their space, then distilled the answers into the Founder Stack.
10 reports backed by ~15 continuous hours of research that go deeper on your market, customers, competitors, wedge, upside, and the case against you than anything else out there.
If you don't learn something new, you get your money back.
Get the Founder Stack here: webhound.ai/stacks/founder-s…
$500, and you get $100 of Webhound credit on top to keep researching after.
Most AI tools hallucinate and hope you don't notice.
Webhound now shows the exact tool call chain behind every claim. Every search. Every page. Every python script.
Go try to catch it lying. We don't think you will.
webhound.ai/news/tool-chains
Webhound researched a map of internet community reactions to AI. Check it out below
webhound.ai/p/ai-community-r…
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As a “business guy” I’m slightly embarrassed to share what I’ve been vibe coding. I’ve built a pipeline for doing deep research on San Francisco public policy issues using Manus, Webhound.ai, and Dropbox. When I share I hope you all will have a ton of useful advice (instead of flaming me).
Introducing Webhound Agent: Your AI research assistant powered by the best deep research money can buy.
Most deep research products decide for you when to stop — and since they're subscription-based, the less work they do per query, the more they profit. Webhound flips that. You set the budget and Webhound keeps searching until it's used. $5 or $100 — every dollar goes into deeper search, more sources, and real verification.
Today we're launching Webhound Agent — a full research assistant with a workspace. Start research from chat. Analyze results with code and follow-up questions. Organize everything in folders. Run multi-step pipelines. The agent remembers your preferences and gets better the more you use it.
Pay-as-you-go. No subscriptions. $5 free to start. See real example reports at different budgets: webhound.ai/examples
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A lot of people asking "why webhound?"
As one of the founders here's why imo
Webhound's research agent can now write and execute Python code on the fly. Read more here. webhound.ai/news/code-execut…
Introducing cross-session access, conversational planning, and research phases. Read more below.
webhound.ai/news/cross-sessi…
Very cool stuff!
In case you’ve ever wondered if Diet Coke is bigger than normal Coke - you’re not alone! So have I. So I made Webhound look it up for me (and some fun facts) - here it is if you’re interested
webhound.ai/document/32bc71d…