Algolia is a search-as-a-service company founded in Paris in 2012 and now headquartered in San Francisco, with a globally distributed team across offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Austin, Paris, London, and Bucharest. The Y Combinator alum's developer-friendly hosted search API powers sub-200ms results, autocomplete, faceted browsing, AI-driven recommendations, merchandising rules, and analytics for 17,000+ companies across commerce, media, and B2B SaaS.

As a dotCMS Technology Partner, Algolia provides the search and discovery layer — indexing dotCMS content and product data to deliver fast on-site search and AI-driven recommendations — making the joint solution particularly valuable for content-heavy dotCMS sites (publishing, support docs, knowledge bases) and commerce sites needing relevance tuning beyond default CMS search.