Authorix is an authority-search platform and API that ranks real human experts by measured authority — whether the expert community actually follows, cites, and engages with them — rather than by follower count. It is built in Amsterdam by the team behind 📝SocialDatabase, and runs a freemium model from a free tier through $39 and $249 monthly plans to custom enterprise, with usage-billed API access priced per query on top.
The platform positions itself as a reference layer for human expertise, set against retrieval tools like 📝Exa.ai and 📝Perplexity Sonar that answer with web snippets or generated prose where Authorix returns deterministic indexed entities. Its users span journalists and researchers sourcing credible voices, 📝marketing teams separating real practitioners from follower counts, and AI teams grounding retrieval in verified expertise. Infrastructure is deliberately European — hosted in Helsinki on 📝Hetzner with 📝Mistral in Paris and Weaviate in Amsterdam — which the company sells as a GDPR posture rather than a compliance cost. The core bet parallels the shift 📝PersonRank describes: search and AI systems migrating from page-level ranking signals to entity-level authority, where being verifiably expert matters more than being loud.
What makes this worth watching isn't the product, it's the position. If the answer layer really does move from ranking pages to ranking people, whoever holds the authority graph sells to every engine rather than competing with them — and that graph is being assembled by a four-person team in Amsterdam rather than inside 📝Google.
Key Features
- 📝Authority Index — The identity-resolved graph every surface reads from, exposing an 📝Authority Score per person per topic.
- Explore — Free browsing of the index by topic and country, with plain-language search plus entity-type, platform, and location filters.
- Verify — Resolves a handle, name, profile URL, post, video, article, podcast, or paper to the human behind it and their standing.
- Pulse — Headlines from the last 24 hours ranked by credible attention and expert engagement rather than by virality.
- 📝Authorix API and 📝Authorix MCP Server — Four REST endpoints and four MCP tools over the same index, usage-billed.