Poe adds bot search and preps an enterprise tier

Quora's AI platform Poe is keeping up a blistering pace of updates, and its latest move tackles one of the platform's biggest friction points: finding something useful among thousands of user-created bots.

Over the past few days, Poe rolled out a full bot search feature and quietly signaled that it is ready to move into the workplace with a new enterprise package.

A proper search engine for custom bots

The new bot search is already live on iOS, the web, and macOS, with an Android rollout coming soon. Users can now search for specific bots by name or browse around to discover new tools based on their interests.

Back in April, Poe allowed users to build custom bots using simple text prompts. Since then, the catalog exploded, but discovering them was practically impossible unless you had a direct link. Last month, Poe added temperature controls to let creators tweak how creative or consistent their bots behave.

That joins a steady string of recent upgrades: threaded conversations for juggling multiple contexts with the same bot, native Mac app support, Japanese language availability, and the integration of Meta's open-source Llama 2 models.

Eyeing company credit cards

Alongside consumer search, Poe reached out to users over the weekend with an email announcing an upcoming enterprise package for employees, backed by a newly opened waitlist.

Poe did not share technical specifics, but the offering looks very much like a centralized team subscription tier. It essentially allows companies to buy bulk access so workers can use Poe's premium tier and its advanced frontier models. There is currently no mention of bespoke enterprise chatbots or dedicated company-level integrations.

Poe first rolled out paid consumer subscriptions back in March, using a strategy of giving paid members first crack at top-tier models before trickling access down to free users.

Why it matters

We think this is the moment Poe officially pivots from a playground for model hobbyists into an actual App Store for prompt-based AI.

For creators and power users, bot search is huge. Until now, distribution was dead on arrival unless you had an existing audience on social media. Making custom bots discoverable right inside the search bar finally gives prompt engineers a built-in audience and a reason to keep building on Poe.

For the broader industry, Quora is showing how an aggregator wins against vertically integrated model makers. By bundling OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta under one slick roof with shared threading and desktop apps, Poe often delivers a better daily utility than the standalone web clients from the lab giants themselves.

The enterprise tier, however, looks like an early test balloon. A group billing plan is convenient, but unless Poe provides enterprise-grade data privacy and bespoke company knowledge bases, serious enterprise IT departments will likely hesitate. Still, for startups and small teams looking for a single subscription to test every frontier model at once, Poe remains remarkably compelling.