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📅 13 October 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC

Show HN: Search for AI agents with usefulness score built in

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Hi HN. I partnered with Simon Kley to build this project at innovation intelligence hackathon (Berkeley). Simply, we’re building a usefulness score on top of search for ai-agents. Instead of agents reading 10 ranked relevant pages, we run a usefulness score first and give it only those that pass. We’re able to save token and cost with this and slightly better answers. During our research, we found out that the current search results already do justice when it comes to simple queries. The rankings work well. They struggle when the task requires deep research or recency matters. So, we decided to talk to devs building ai-agents that research companies for sales outreach. Deep research and recency matters a lot to them. And in their words “every so often, stale facts reach emails.” They catch

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