# Valency

> Valency builds people-centered, AI-accelerated research infrastructure. Its product, Valency Bond, connects AI assistants and research workflows to a live corpus of 450+ million papers and preprints so people and agents can find, verify, and cite current scientific work.

Valency is a Berkeley-based company building the connection between the world’s research and the tools that reason over it. This file is a curated guide to Valency’s public site.

## Start here

- [Valency homepage](https://valency.io/index.md): Company overview, positioning, and product context.
- [Full site guide](https://valency.io/llms-full.txt): Detailed Markdown representation of the public marketing site.
- [Valency Bond](https://valency.io/bond.md): Bond for researchers, institutions, and AI builders; MCP-based integration; grounded, citable outputs.
- [Valency Bond for researchers](https://valency.io/bond/researchers.md): Four concrete researcher workflows (staying current, reading lists, claim verification, collaborator mapping).

## How Valency works

- Valency continuously ingests and structures papers and preprints (full text, metadata, versions, citation graph), with new work searchable within hours.
- Bond exposes 38+ research tools through one MCP connector, including semantic search, citation tracing, researcher profiles, trends, and export.
- Outputs are grounded in resolvable sources and designed to be token-efficient for assistant and agent workflows.
- Institutions and R&D teams can connect private research with global scientific knowledge without moving private data out of their secure environment.

## Who Valency serves

- Researchers, academics, and non-profits who need current, traceable literature workflows.
- Universities, national labs, and R&D organizations that need grounded views across internal and public research.
- AI product teams and developers integrating live scientific knowledge into MCP-compatible assistants and agents.

## Company

- [About the team](https://valency.io/team.md): Leadership, principles, and how Valency works.
- [Careers](https://valency.io/careers.md): Hiring philosophy, process, and open-application path.
- [Open jobs](https://valency.io/jobs.md): Current role snapshot and links to the live Ashby job board.

## Contact

- [Contact Valency](https://valency.io/contact.md)
- Product support: [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io)
- Enterprise and institutions: [sales@valency.io](mailto:sales@valency.io)
- Media inquiries: [media@valency.io](mailto:media@valency.io)

## Optional

- [Press kit](https://valency.io/press-kit.md): Logos, leadership headshots, and media contact.
- [Valency privacy policy](https://valency.io/privacy.md): Canonical privacy policy.
- [Valency terms](https://valency.io/terms.md): Canonical terms of use.
- [Data Processing Addendum](https://valency.io/dpa.md): Effective 11 August 2026; applies with a separate written commercial agreement and does not apply to self-service, free, trial, or evaluation use.
- [Valency blog](https://blog.valency.io/): Company news and long-form writing.