AI companies by category · August 2026
AI search and research companies: the 10 growing fastest in August 2026
AI companies working on enterprise search, research assistants and retrieval APIs, ranked by how much their estimated website visits grew on the month before. Only companies with at least 20K visits a month are included.
We track 229 companies in this category with at least 20K monthly visits.
| # | Company | VisitsVisits / month | 1 month | 3 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deepsearch.bio People search that builds AI-generated, source-linked profiles from public web data. +859% on the month before | 600K | +859% | +663,693% |
| 2 | useluminary.ai Consumer AI exploration app where users ask questions and get AI-generated explanations, sign-up available. +362% on the month before | 120K | +362% | +3,997% |
| 3 | deepsearch.app People-search tool that compiles sourced public-web profiles and lets users ask AI questions about them. +352% on the month before | 90K | +352% | – |
| 4 | revideo.io Reverse video search tool that uses CV/ML to trace video sources, find re-uploads, and detect deepfakes. +287% on the month before | 120K | +287% | – |
| 5 | llmnesia.com Free local-first Chrome/Edge extension that indexes and searches your AI chat history, with an MCP bridge so desktop AI apps can reuse it. +174% on the month before | 40K | +174% | +2,208% |
| 6 | skimming.ai AI assistant for chatting with and summarizing documents, videos, audio, and social media, with developer APIs. +154% on the month before | 40K | +154% | +143% |
| 7 | Perplexityperplexity.com Free AI-powered answer engine providing real-time, trusted answers to any question. +150% on the month before | 270K | +150% | +23% |
| 8 | muslimai.io Free AI-powered Quran question-and-answer search tool. +130% on the month before | 39K | +130% | +332% |
| 9 | answerthis.io AI research platform that answers questions, verifies citations, drafts papers, and runs systematic reviews. +106% on the month before | 710K | +106% | +81% |
| 10 | sherlocksearch.com Upload a photo and Sherlock finds matching faces across 9+ social platforms and public records with confidence-scored results. +84% on the month before | 1.4M | +84% | – |
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How this list is made
At least 20K estimated visits in the month and 10K the month before, positive growth, and at least three months of history. The ten with the highest growth are shown.
Visits are estimated monthly website visits across all channels, from third-party traffic panels, rounded to two significant figures. They are estimates, not numbers the companies report.
Growth compares the month with the month before. A company that runs several domains is counted once, with its domains added together, so a move from one domain to another does not show up as growth.
Companies are included when our classifier is confident AI is the product itself, not a feature of a wider platform. Adult and companion apps are left out. A reviewed list corrects wrong names and keeps public companies off the startup lists.
The list is rebuilt once a month, when the month's traffic estimates are in. A fast month can reflect a launch, a press cycle or a single viral post, so treat a place on this list as a reason to look closer, not as proof of revenue.
AI search and research companies with full profiles
Sourced funding rounds, valuations and estimated traffic for companies in this category, whether or not they made this month's list.