# Dossier — Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot

- **Session ID**: `b8bb725d-daf0-4ac0-8095-5737841c89e5`
- **Talk Transcript**: [transcript.md](transcript.md)
- **Recording**: `2026-10-13_1130_Exa`
- **Freshness**: `settling` (last checked 2026-11-14T12:15:30-05:00)

## Speakers

- **Ryan Ahern** (Exa) · status: `partial`
  - Site: https://ai.engineer/nyc/2026/schedule
  - Evidence: *"So the first one, I just want to motivate what is Exa? What is Agentic Web Search? Just because you kind of need to believe in the dream of that, understand why you want to use it to the second thing I'm going to talk about, which is how to backtest financial models using that."*

## Companies

- **Exa** (https://ai.engineer/nyc/2026/schedule) — Organization represented at AI Engineer New York 2026 (Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot).

## Verified Resources

- **[Schedule | AI Engineer NYC 2026 — Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot](https://ai.engineer/nyc/2026/schedule#session-b8bb725d-daf0-4ac0-8095-5737841c89e5)** (`product`, first seen 2026-10-26T10:41:07-04:00, post-event publication — added 13 days after the talk)
  - Why: Official AI Engineer NYC 2026 session entry and abstract for "Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot".
  - Evidence: *"So the first one, I just want to motivate what is Exa? What is Agentic Web Search? Just because you kind of need to believe in the dream of that, understand why you want to use it to the second thing I'm going to talk about, which is how to backtest financial models using that."*
- **[Version-Controlled Search: The Web as It Was — Ryan Ahern, Exa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2IA9pq0Q4)** (`youtube`, first seen 2026-11-14T12:15:30-05:00, post-event publication — added 32 days after the talk)
  - Why: Official recording of this talk on the AI Engineer YouTube channel, published after the event.
  - Evidence: page title *"Version-Controlled Search: The Web as It Was — Ryan Ahern, Exa"*

## Coverage & Gaps

- Post-event settling window (12 days after 2026-10-14): standalone slide deck not yet published on the session page.