Will Bryk is the Co-founder and CEO of Exa, an applied research lab organizing human knowledge. Exa’s full-stack web search engine built from the ground up for AI agents. A former software engineer at Cresta, he co-founded Exa in 2021 on a thesis that AI agents would one day search the web more than humans. Exa built the infrastructure for it, operating its own index, ranking algorithms, and vector database.