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name: exa-search description: Find similar companies using Exa.ai's neural search API

Exa Search Skill

This skill uses Exa.ai's findSimilar endpoint to discover companies similar to a given URL. It's perfect for competitor discovery as it uses neural search to find semantically similar businesses.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• You need to find competitors for a company
• You want to discover similar businesses in a market
• You need to research the competitive landscape

How to Use

Prerequisites

• EXA_API_KEY environment variable must be set

Basic Usage

find-similar.sh "https://example.com" [limit]

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Default	Description
url	Yes	-	The company URL to find similar companies for
limit	No	10	Maximum number of similar companies to return

Examples

# Find 10 competitors for Notion
find-similar.sh "https://notion.so"

# Find top 5 competitors for Slack
find-similar.sh "https://slack.com" 5

# Find competitors for a SaaS company
find-similar.sh "https://linear.app" 15

Output

Results are saved to /tmp/data/competitors.json:

{
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Competitor Name",
      "url": "https://competitor.com/",
      "score": 0.95
    }
  ]
}

Guidelines

1. The URL must be a valid company website
2. Results exclude common non-competitor domains (github.com, linkedin.com)
3. Results are sorted by similarity score (highest first)

Error Handling

• 401 Unauthorized: Check that EXA_API_KEY is set correctly
• 429 Rate Limited: Wait and retry after a few seconds
• Invalid URL: Ensure the URL is a valid website address