Knowledge retrieval API for AI agents

Ground any agent in
your knowledge base

Connect your unstructured data and give your agents accurate, cited context from your knowledge base via API or MCP.

200+ leading companies chose Kapa instead of building retrieval themselves

Capabilities

Everything you need to give your AI agents context from unstructured knowledge

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Pre-built connectors

Web crawls, Zendesk, GitHub, Slack, PDFs, and more. Every source’s auth, pagination, and rate limits, handled.

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Continuous sync

Kapa detects and re-processes only what changed, and updates land in minutes. No more stale context.

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Managed retrieval pipeline

Chunking, embedding, hybrid search, reranking and evals, tuned continuously. All of it behind one API call.

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Context pruning

Give your agents the context that actually matters, Kapa prunes the rest. Accurate retrieval at scale for 68% fewer tokens.

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Pre-built connectors

Web crawls, Zendesk, GitHub, Slack, PDFs, and more. Every source’s auth, pagination, and rate limits, handled.

02

Continuous sync

Kapa detects and re-processes only what changed, and updates land in minutes. No more stale context.

03

Managed retrieval pipeline

Chunking, embedding, hybrid search, reranking and evals, tuned continuously. All of it behind one API call.

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Context pruning

Give your agents the context that actually matters, Kapa prunes the rest. Accurate retrieval at scale for 68% fewer tokens.

Use cases

The agents teams are building on Kapa retrieval

One knowledge base grounds every agent across your product, support, and engineering stack in your technical documentation.

In-product agent

AI agents embedded directly in your application. Build one on Kapa's Retrieval API, or use the pre-built components in the Kapa Agent SDK.

Documentation agent

Your docs are where people go to figure things out, and where they end up when stuck. Embed an agent in your documentation so users can self-serve.

Support agent

Most support tickets ask something you've already answered. Connect Kapa to those sources to deflect repeat tickets before they reach your team.

Public MCP server

More of your users work through AI assistants like Claude or Codex. Kapa hosts your MCP server, so they can connect it to whichever assistant they use.

Company brain

Your team's knowledge is spread across docs, Slack, tickets, and wikis. Connect them all to Kapa so anyone can ask a question and get a sourced answer.

Community forum agent

Community questions in Discord, Slack, or Discourse often wait hours. Kapa answers them instantly from your docs and flags only what it can't resolve.

RFP answer agent

RFPs and security questionnaires ask the same questions in new words each time. Kapa drafts answers from your past responses and docs, ready for review.

Competitor intel agent

Sales and product both field questions about how you stack up. Kapa answers them from your battlecards and competitor research, always kept current.

In-product agent

AI agents embedded directly in your application. Build one on Kapa's Retrieval API, or use the pre-built components in the Kapa Agent SDK.

Documentation agent

Your docs are where people go to figure things out, and where they end up when stuck. Embed an agent in your documentation so users can self-serve.

Support agent

Most support tickets ask something you've already answered. Connect Kapa to those sources to deflect repeat tickets before they reach your team.

Public MCP server

More of your users work through AI assistants like Claude or Codex. Kapa hosts your MCP server, so they can connect it to whichever assistant they use.

Company brain

Your team's knowledge is spread across docs, Slack, tickets, and wikis. Connect them all to Kapa so anyone can ask a question and get a sourced answer.

Community forum agent

Community questions in Discord, Slack, or Discourse often wait hours. Kapa answers them instantly from your docs and flags only what it can't resolve.

RFP answer agent

RFPs and security questionnaires ask the same questions in new words each time. Kapa drafts answers from your past responses and docs, ready for review.

Competitor intel agent

Sales and product both field questions about how you stack up. Kapa answers them from your battlecards and competitor research, always kept current.

Analytics

See the queries where Kapa couldn't give a confident answer

See what agents are querying

Know what documentation to write next

Why the best engineering teams chose not to build retrieval themselves

Rated 4.9/5 on G2

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Backed by Y Combinator

“Kapa started as an agent on our docs. Now it’s the interface layer between our product and everyone.”

Matan Grady

Product Director, Port

“We use Kapa to power self-serve AI agents on our docs, which cuts time-to-value dramatically.”

Jan Oberhauser

CEO, n8n

“Thousands of complex sources across PDFs, versioned docs, and code. Kapa keeps it all in sync as we ship.”

Deidre Casey

AI Integration Manager, Nordic Semiconductor

“Kapa lets us focus on building agents, not maintaining retrieval infrastructure.”

Sam Bhagwat

CEO, Mastra

“Kapa is super easy to set up. As we expand, we continue to find more integration points to bring the right context to our agents.”

Dana Lawson

CTO, Netlify

“Kapa is key infrastructure for powering context in our user-facing agents.”

Daniel Hai

AI Product Manager, monday.com

Enterprise-grade security and controls

Zero data retention & PII masking

Security controls to limit data retention and PII processing for sensitive use cases.

SOC 2

SOC 2 & GDPR

Independently audited controls for security, availability, and confidentiality.

SSO & RBAC

Single sign-on and role-based access across the platform.

EU/US

Data regions

US and EU hosting available, so your knowledge stays where compliance needs it.

Everything you need to give your agents accurate retrieval, ready in minutes.

Get started for free. Connect your sources and get an API key or hosted MCP server to give your agents the context they need to do reliable work at scale.

Frequently asked questions

What is Kapa?

Kapa is an ingestion and retrieval system for your unstructured knowledge. Ingestion assembles a unified knowledge base from 20+ types of sources - documentation sites, PDFs, tickets, community threads, API specifications — and keeps it up to date as that content changes. Agentic retrieval searches across it to find what the agent needs, the moment it needs it. You hand Kapa to your agent as a search tool via MCP, or call it directly through the API. And for the cases where you do not want to build an agent at all, Kapa offers Prebuilt Agents for common use cases, out of the box.

What can I build with Kapa?

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Why do agents need retrieval? Can’t I just put my docs in the context window?

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How is this different from building retrieval in-house?

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When would I use a web search API like Exa or Tavily instead?

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Which knowledge sources can Kapa ingest?

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How does Kapa keep the knowledge base up to date?

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Does it work with my agent framework and model?

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I just want a documentation assistant. Do I have to build an agent?

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Is my data secure? Is it used for training?

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How does pricing work?

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Can Kapa run on-prem or in our own VPC?

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