Product overview
What is Extruct AI?
Extruct AI is an API and research workspace for finding and evaluating companies. It combines a curated index of 10 million companies with live-web research, allowing users or AI systems to describe detailed criteria and receive matching organizations with supporting sources.
The product offers Search, Lookalike, and Deep Search modes, along with an API, Studio, public datasets, research reports, and customer workflows. The homepage example applies five business criteria to thousands of sourced candidates and returns a smaller set of high-fit matches.
How to Use Extruct AI
- Get an API key or open Extruct Studio.
- Describe the target companies and the criteria they must satisfy.
- Choose Search, Lookalike, or Deep Search depending on the task.
- Review matched companies, their structured attributes, and the source behind each answer.
- Send the results to a CRM, report, dataset, or downstream AI workflow.
Core Features
- Large company index: Searches a curated database of 10 million companies.
- Live-web research: Investigates companies and criteria beyond the existing index.
- Custom criteria: Evaluates detailed requirements such as industry, size, capabilities, projects, and hiring.
- Source-backed answers: Returns a source for each research result.
- Search modes: Supports direct search, lookalike discovery, and deeper research.
- API and Studio: Serves programmatic systems and interactive research users.
Use Cases
- Market mapping: Builds lists of organizations in a specific sector or geography.
- Sales prospecting: Finds companies matching detailed qualification criteria.
- Investment research: Sources and evaluates businesses for investment workflows.
- Competitive intelligence: Identifies lookalike companies and related market participants.
- AI data enrichment: Supplies sourced company facts to agents and business systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
How large is the company index?
The official homepage describes a curated index of 10 million companies.
Are answers sourced?
Yes. Extruct states that every answer returns with its source.
Can it research outside the index?
Yes. It can search the live web against user-defined criteria.


