## Recommendation: **Linkup** For this repo — **Cogitations Reviews**, a Nuxt 3 platform whose agent generates product reviews via OpenAI (through a Cloudflare Worker) with no current retrieval — Linkup is the best fit against your decisive criterion: *licensed, reputable sources, not scraped SERPs*. **Why Linkup wins:** - **Licensing model is the actual differentiator.** Linkup signs content-licensing deals with publishers and pulls from their CMS directly — no scraping — and pays partners per access. It blends news publishers with structured knowledge databases (e.g., Statista, Xerfi), which is exactly the reputable grounding a review agent needs. - **Quality + fit:** ranks #1 among sub-second APIs (92% F-score on SimpleQA), configurable source-trust, and a `Fetch` endpoint returning LLM-ready markdown — easy to inject into the existing prompt pipeline. - **Ops fit:** JS/Node SDK (matches the Nuxt stack), SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, zero data retention; clean `Search`/`Research` endpoints. **Main alternatives considered:** - **Valyu** — also genuinely licensed (SEC, PubMed, arXiv, FDA, financial). Rejected: its 36+ sources are academic/financial/medical, with no consumer/product or e-commerce coverage — wrong domain for product reviews. - **Exa** — excellent neural/embeddings search and a unique "find similar" endpoint, but indexes the scraped open web, not licensed sources. - **Tav