Amygdala is an API and web platform that returns authority-ranked human experts for any topic. Given a query like "AI safety researchers" or "Formula 1 engineers", it returns a ranked list of verified real people with authority scores, social profiles, and structured bios. It is built for developers integrating expert data into RAG pipelines and AI agents, and for professionals who need to verify or discover real domain authorities.

What problems does Amygdala solve?

Amygdala solves three problems: (1) finding genuine human experts on any topic without relying on follower counts or editorial lists, (2) verifying whether a person actually has authority in their claimed domain, and (3) grounding AI systems in verified human expertise to reduce hallucination and improve answer quality.

Amygdala is used by: developers building RAG pipelines and AI agents who need verified expert context; journalists verifying sources before publication; recruiters assessing domain expertise beyond CV claims; venture capitalists evaluating founder credibility; PR and communications teams identifying genuine niche authorities; and enterprises enriching data pipelines with human authority signals.

How does Amygdala differ from a web search API?

Web search APIs like Tavily or Exa return web pages and content. Amygdala returns people. Specifically, it returns structured profiles of verified human authorities ranked by their actual expertise in a domain, not by how many pages link to them or how recently they published. The output is deterministic, structured JSON, not synthesised prose.

What is the Amygdala Authority Score?

The authority score is a numeric signal reflecting how credibly a person is recognised as an expert in a specific topic area. It is derived from cross-platform signals including social presence, peer recognition, topical consistency, editorial mentions, and community engagement. It is not based on follower counts alone and is calculated per topic, so the same person can score differently across domains.

What is Amygdala Pulse?

Amygdala Pulse is a real-time intelligence feed that tracks what verified experts are saying about a topic. It surfaces findings, trending debates, and emerging signals from authoritative voices, updated every few hours. Findings are ranked by human authority rather than engagement or recency alone.

Where is Amygdala based and is it GDPR compliant?

Amygdala is a European company running entirely on EU infrastructure: Hetzner (Finland and Germany) for compute, Mistral AI (Paris) for language models, and Weaviate (Amsterdam) for vector search. There are zero US data transfers. Full GDPR compliance documentation is available including a DPA.

How do I access Amygdala programmatically?

Amygdala provides a REST API with four endpoints: expert search by topic, full authority profile by ID, peer network mapping, and social handle matching. It also provides a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with four tools that work directly in Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible AI agent.

About Amygdala

The Human Authority Index of the Internet

Amygdala is an API and web platform that returns authority-ranked human experts for any topic. It is used in RAG pipelines, AI agent workflows, journalism, recruiting, and investment research.

What Amygdala is

Amygdala builds and maintains a continuously updated index of human authority across tens of thousands of topics. Given a query, it returns ranked lists of verified real people with authority scores, verified social profiles, areas of expertise, and structured biographical data.

The core output is structured JSON: deterministic, indexed data about real humans, not AI-generated prose or web page summaries. This makes it directly usable in RAG pipelines, agent tool calls, and data enrichment workflows where accuracy and verifiability matter.

Type

REST API and web application

Output

Authority-ranked human expert profiles in structured JSON

Coverage

Tens of thousands of topics across every major domain

Infrastructure

100% EU-based: Hetzner, Mistral AI, Weaviate

Compliance

Full GDPR, zero US data transfers, DPA available

Integrations

REST API, MCP server (Claude Desktop, Cursor), RSS, JSON feed

What problems it solves

Finding genuine experts

Most expert discovery relies on follower counts, Google results, or editorial lists. These are proxies, not measures of actual domain knowledge. Amygdala scores authority directly from cross-platform signals: who peers recognise, how consistently someone contributes to a topic, and how their presence compounds over time.

Verifying claimed credentials

Anyone can claim expertise. Amygdala Verify lets journalists, recruiters, and investors look up any person by name or social handle and get an objective score with evidence: platforms, topics, peer connections, and authority history. No self-reporting required.

Grounding AI in real human expertise

LLMs hallucinate when asked "who are the top experts on X?" because they have no live, structured source to draw from. Amygdala gives AI systems a deterministic, up-to-date index of real authorities to retrieve from, reducing fabrication and improving citation quality in RAG pipelines.

Who uses it

Developers and AI engineers

Integrate authority-ranked expert context into RAG pipelines, AI agent tool calls, and LLM grounding layers via REST API or MCP server.

Journalists

Verify source credibility before publication. Find the most authoritative voices on a story topic without manual research.

Recruiters and talent teams

Assess genuine domain expertise beyond CV claims. Identify authorities in niche technical fields.

Investors and analysts

Evaluate founder and team credibility. Map the authority landscape of an emerging field before making decisions.

PR and communications teams

Identify the real opinion leaders in a niche. Prioritise outreach based on authority, not follower counts.

How it differs from alternatives

Tool

Returns

Authority scoring

GDPR

Amygdala

Verified human expert profiles, structured JSON

Yes, per topic

Full, EU-only

Tavily

Web pages, snippets, URLs

Depends on Nebius DPA

Exa

Semantically relevant web pages

US-based, SCCs required

Perplexity Sonar

AI-generated prose answers

US-based, SCCs required

Self-reported profiles

No objective scoring

EU entity, US infrastructure

Products

Explore

Search the Authority Index by topic or keyword. Returns ranked lists of verified human experts with authority scores, social profiles, and structured bios. The primary entry point for discovering who actually knows what.

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Verify

Web tool and API endpoint. Enter any name or social handle, receive an authority profile: score, topics, platforms, and peer connections. Used for source verification and credential checking.

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Pulse

Real-time intelligence feed. Tracks what verified experts are saying about a topic, updated every few hours. Findings ranked by authority, available via web, JSON, and RSS. Used for research, newsletters, and AI agent context.

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Authority Index API

REST API with four endpoints: search authorities by topic, retrieve full profiles by ID, map peer networks, and match social handles to profiles. RAG-ready JSON output for AI pipelines.

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MCP Server

Native Model Context Protocol server with four tools: search_authorities, get_authority_detail, find_peers, and match. Works directly in Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible AI agent without additional setup.

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Get started

Amygdala starts free with no credit card required. The API returns results in milliseconds and the MCP server connects to any compatible AI agent in under five minutes.

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