AI Agents7 min readJanuary 8, 2025

Web Grounding: Making AI Agents Factually Accurate

Real-time web search integration prevents hallucinations and ensures your AI agents provide accurate, up-to-date information.

UnforgeAPI Team

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The Hallucination Problem

AI agents are powerful, but they have a critical flaw: they make things up.

When an LLM doesn't know something, it might:

  • Invent fake statistics
  • Create non-existent companies
  • Hallucinate news events
  • Provide outdated information

This is catastrophic for:

  • Financial trading agents
  • Research assistants
  • Customer support bots
  • Market analysis tools

What is Web Grounding?

Web grounding (or RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation) connects AI to real-time information sources:

The Process

  1. Query: Your agent asks a question
  2. Search: API searches 12+ web sources
  3. Ground: LLM uses search results as context
  4. Answer: Response is based on real data, not training data

Why It Matters

Grounded responses are:

  • Accurate: Based on real sources
  • Current: Uses up-to-date information
  • Cited: Can reference source material
  • Verifiable: Can be fact-checked

Deep Research API Grounding

Our API provides real-time web grounding with:

12+ Sources Per Query

We search multiple sources to ensure comprehensive coverage:

  • News articles
  • Company websites
  • Financial reports
  • Academic papers
  • Social media
  • Press releases

Real-Time Indexing

Our search index is continuously updated:

  • Breaking news: < 5 minutes
  • Stock prices: < 1 minute
  • Product releases: < 10 minutes
  • Research papers: < 1 day

Citation Support

Every response includes source references:

{
  "answer": "Tesla's market cap is $850B...",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/...",
      "title": "Tesla Market Cap",
      "published": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z"
    }
  ]
}

Use Cases

Financial Agents

const stockData = await deepResearch({
  query: "AAPL current stock price",
  schema: {
    price: "number",
    change: "number",
    volume: "number"
  }
})
// Real-time, accurate stock data

Research Assistants

const research = await deepResearch({
  query: "Latest developments in AI regulation",
  mode: "extract",
  extract: ["key_regulations", "timeline", "implications"]
})
// Comprehensive, cited research

Customer Support

const answer = await deepResearch({
  query: "How to reset API key?",
  context: userDocumentation
})
// Accurate, up-to-date answers

Get Started

Eliminate hallucinations with real-time web grounding.

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