Turn web search on with a simple flag
No API integrations, no tool schema, no per-model wiring. Enable it in your existing call.
Let Backboard handle querying, result ranking, and formatting
Backboard does the heavy lifting: running the search, selecting relevant snippets, and formatting them for the model.
Feed the results into any model, even if it does not support tool calling
Web search works at the API level, not as a tool call, so every model in the catalog benefits.
Works with any model
No extra cost
Integrated with state, memory, and RAG
Adaptive context aware
Production‑ready answers
HOW IT WORKS
How Backboard web search works
You enable web search as part of the same msg call you already use:
USE CASES
Web search patterns you can implement
Common patterns teams build once they have live web results available on every model call.
News‑aware assistants
Answer questions about recent releases, benchmarks, and ecosystem changes.
Hybrid knowledge bots
Use memory + RAG for your internal data and web search for public context.
Research workflows
Pull in external references, compare sources, and summarize long articles.
Safety and validation
Cross‑check model claims against current information on the web.
COMPARISON
Why not just bolt on a search API?
Doing it yourself means choosing infra, stitching systems, and managing context budgets manually. Backboard handles all of it.
Doing it yourself usually means:
Choosing and integrating a third‑party search provider
Designing result formatting for each model
Handling rate limits, errors, and different relevance formats
Backboard gives you:
Web search integrated into the same unified, stateful API
Free usage as part of the platform — no per‑query fees or separate search bill.
Automatic context budgeting alongside routing, memory, and RAG
You toggle a flag instead of building another subsystem. Backboard fits web results into the context window automatically, alongside everything else.
PLATFORM
Included in Backboard, not a separate product
Web search is a first‑class, free feature of Backboard.