Tako positions itself as the grounding layer for agentic applications. It combines a curated index of premium data — company financials, macroeconomic indicators, market prices, sports, weather and government spending — with ordinary web search, so a single query can return both narrative sources and the raw figures behind them. Results arrive as JSON for programmatic use and as knowledge cards such as charts, bar graphs, tables and maps that can be dropped directly into an interface.
The platform is organised around four APIs. The Search API delivers real-time results grounded in Tako's curated index and the open web; the Answer API produces direct, cited answers to natural-language questions; the Contents API returns the full page text and the rows behind a data series; and the Agent API runs asynchronous deep-research and enrichment jobs. A free MCP server and plugins let tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP-enabled agents connect in minutes without an API key.
Tako targets developers building research assistants, analytics copilots and data-heavy chatbots. The company emphasises enterprise readiness with zero data retention, SOC 2 verification and SLAs, and publishes benchmarks claiming competitive accuracy on reasoning-heavy and numeric questions alongside low latency. A free tier lets developers start building before committing to a paid plan.
