Antonio Mallia
Founder & CEO
AI, Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Everyone is talking about foundation models, reasoning and autonomous agents. Far fewer are talking about the infrastructure that makes those agents reliable.
Antonio Mallia, Founder & CEO of Seltz.ai, believes today’s web search infrastructure was built for humans—not AI agents. As organizations deploy increasingly autonomous systems, the quality, freshness and speed of retrieval becomes a strategic differentiator. Seltz explores why many AI teams are moving beyond traditional search APIs, what it really means to build a retrieval stack from first principles, and whether “search for agents” could become as important over the next decade as search for people was over the last twenty years.
Seltz:
Seltz builds Web knowledge infrastructure for a new class of users: large language models and autonomous AI agents, founded by Antonio Mallia. As these systems become primary consumers of the Web, access to Web data must be reliable, efficient, and designed for machine reasoning rather than human interfaces.
Modern AI applications require more than wrapped APIs or generic search endpoints. They need continuously updated, high-quality Web context and precise retrieval, under clear operational control, and without reliance on opaque third-party services. Seltz is built from the ground up to provide this infrastructure directly.
Data sovereignty is a core principle. By owning and operating the entire Web knowledge pipeline, Seltz enables predictable, auditable system behavior and allows organizations to avoid dependency on external providers.
Antonio Mallia is also featured on our premiere Features Page, and you can read the Podcast Interview Transcript.
