Blogs + Essays
May 2026
How Search Quality Shapes RL Outcomes
Agents trained with Exa as the search backend during RL reach higher performance with less training compute than those using Google.
March 2026
WebCode: Search Evals for Coding Agents
Open sourcing WebCode, internal evaluations to improve content extraction and retrieval quality for coding agents.
January 2026
exa-d: Data Framework to Process the Web
Exa's internally-built framework for handling web data processing at scale.
July 2025
Changes in Government Policies Create Markets for Startups in Highly Regulated Industries
policy shifts in regulated sectors like healthcare create time-bound windows where startups can entirely capture this new market
April 2023
Scientific Heretics: In History and Modernity
old rabbit hole on how the modern world protects scientific heresy
December 2022
Applying AI to the Industry of Biology: Eligibility Criteria and Clinical Trial Design
I spent years across Amgen and at a clinical trial startup thinking through how AI could improve core bottlenecks across issues like patient recruitment. I share some of my work on this here, always happy to chat about it.