What can an AI teammate do with Brave Search?

A Brave Search AI assistant can query the open web, retrieve news articles, find images, and get AI-generated summaries, all from an independent index that doesn't rely on Google or Bing. Your mate can run these searches automatically on a schedule or on demand, then fold the results into reports, Slack digests, or downstream tasks.

Why use Brave Search instead of Google or Bing search APIs?

Brave operates its own web crawler and index, so results aren't filtered or ranked by ad revenue. This gives your mate access to a different slice of the web and avoids search personalization that can bias results - useful for research, competitive intelligence, and any workflow where independence and privacy matter.

Does Brave Search track my queries?

Brave Search is built around a no-tracking policy. Queries made through the API are not tied to user profiles or used for ad targeting. Your API credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to make requests on your behalf.

Which Brave Search API plan do I need?

Brave offers a free tier with a limited monthly query quota, plus paid plans for higher volumes. The Summarizer and local search features require a paid plan. Check Brave's pricing page to match a plan to your expected query volume before running high-frequency automations.

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AI Teammate for Brave Search

An AI teammate that searches the web independently for research and real-time intelligence.

Your AI teammate for Brave Search queries the open web without relying on Google or Bing, giving you independent, privacy-focused results for research, news, and image discovery. An ideal AI assistant for competitive intelligence, market monitoring, and fact-checking against a source that isn't shaped by ad auctions. Write actions always require your approval.

Most web search tools are proxies for the same two indexes. Brave Search runs its own independent web crawler, so your mate can surface results and perspectives that Google-dependent tools miss, without tracking your queries or skewing results toward paid placement.

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What your AI teammate can do with Brave Search

Read-only actions run automatically. Write actions require your approval.

Read-only actions

web search

Search the open web with Brave's independent index and return ranked results with snippets

news search

Retrieve recent news articles and headlines matching a query across Brave's news index

image search

Find images on the web matching a query, with source URLs and metadata

summarize

Get an AI-generated summary of top search results for a query using Brave's Summarizer API

local search

Search for local businesses, places, and points of interest by location and query

Example workflows with Brave Search

Real tasks you can run on a schedule or on demand.

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research competitors by searching their product updates, press mentions, and pricing pages on a schedule

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monitor news for brand mentions or industry keywords and send a daily digest to slack

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fact-check claims in documents by cross-referencing them against live web results

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power an ai assistant with real-time web search so answers reflect current information, not training data

How to connect Brave Search

Create a free m8tes account.

Connect Brave Search

Click Connect and complete the OAuth flow or enter your API key.

Create a task

Give your AI teammate a task that uses Brave Search. It handles the rest.

Brave Search AI teammate: FAQ

Common questions about using an AI teammate with Brave Search.

Build an AI teammate for Brave Search

Connect Brave Search to an autonomous AI teammate that reads data, runs tasks on schedule, and delivers structured output.

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