Architecture

How a request routes through OptimAI API, live nodes worldwide, and structured results.

OptimAI Search is designed around a simple flow: ask, distribute, retrieve, rank, synthesize.

Request flow

  1. Your app sends a natural language query or URL scrape request.
  2. The OptimAI API validates authentication and request shape.
  3. The request routes across live nodes worldwide.
  4. Nodes fetch fresh sources from the live web.
  5. OptimAI ranks results and returns a cited answer, sources, tracking ID, and node context.

Human and agent use

Humans usually inspect the rendered docs and product UI. Agents usually need direct links, markdown-friendly content, and stable section headings.

Deployment split

The landing page and docs are separate apps:

search-lp    -> search.optimai.network
search-docs  -> search-docs.optimai.network

This keeps the docs independently deployable while still sharing the same visual language.