Explore Overview - The Search Company API

Getting Started

Website

Onboarding

Cron

Your Current Setup

Explore

Settings - Toggle

Settings - Business

Settings - Team

Settings - Billing

Settings - Domain

Webhooks

Health

Manual Trigger

The Explore API enables multi-business research and competitor analysis. Users can:

View auto-discovered competitors (10 found during onboarding)
Add up to 2 additional competitors manually
Get detailed information about any competitor for chat context

Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	`/api/explore/competitors`	List all competitors
POST	`/api/explore/add-competitor`	Add a new competitor
GET	`/api/explore/competitor/{id}`	Get competitor details
DELETE	`/api/explore/competitor/{id}`	Remove a user-added competitor

Competitor Sources

Competitors have two sources:

Source	Description	Can Delete?
`auto_discovered`	Found automatically during onboarding	No
`user_added`	Manually added by user	Yes

Flow

During onboarding, 10 competitors are auto-discovered using Firecrawl agent
Users can add up to 2 additional competitors via URL
Competitors appear as “bubbles” in the Explore tab
Users select/unselect bubbles to include in chat context
Chat uses selected competitor data for multi-business research