FirstEngineer

Service

The data you need, on a schedule, in the shape you want

Public pages turned into clean structured rows, delivered where your team already works. Built to survive the markup changes that break every scraper eventually.

Typically 1–3 weeks
Web scraping & data pipelines
Pages in, clean rows out

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Pages in, clean rows out

The data you need lives on someone else's site, in a layout designed for human eyes rather than machines. We extract it, normalise it, and deliver it where your team already works — a sheet, a warehouse, a webhook. What lands is consistent columns you can build on, not HTML you have to argue with.

  • Extractors for the sources you name
  • Scheduled runs with retries and change alerts
  • Delivery into Sheets, Notion, a warehouse, or a webhook
  • A written note on what is and isn't lawful to collect
Built to survive redesigns

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Built to survive redesigns

Every scraper breaks eventually, because sites change without telling anyone. Ours detect the change and alert you rather than quietly delivering empty columns for a month. Silent failure is the expensive kind: you only notice after making decisions on data that stopped updating weeks ago.

On a schedule you choose

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On a schedule you choose

Hourly, nightly or weekly, with retries, backoff and a record of every run, so you can trust the freshness date attached to a row. Jobs are throttled to stay polite to the source, which is also the thing that keeps them working long term.

The legal read, before we quote

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The legal read, before we quote

What is lawful to collect gets written down before anything is built. We work public pages, data you are licensed to access, and your own accounts on third-party platforms. We will not bypass authentication you do not own, and grey areas get flagged before the work starts rather than after.

How it runs

Same four steps, every project

  1. 01

    Scope

    A call, then a one-page scope: what gets built, what it costs, what date it lands, and what is explicitly not included.

  2. 02

    Build

    The core of the thing first, on your infrastructure from day one. A working demo every Friday, whether the week went well or not.

  3. 03

    Harden

    The parts everyone skips — empty states, errors, retries, analytics, and the case where a user does something strange.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Live, with monitoring and a handover doc. Two weeks of support included, then you take it or we stay on.

Pricing

What this usually costs

The exact number comes out of the scoping call. These are the shapes it takes.

Standard

Monthly · pause or cancel anytime

$2,000per month

One active build at a time, delivered in order. The plan most founders start on — enough to get a product live and keep it moving.

Priority

Monthly · pause or cancel anytime

$3,600per month

Two builds running in parallel and a faster turnaround, for when there is a launch date someone else already committed to.

Embedded

Monthly · 1 month minimum

from $7,500per month

Dedicated capacity that behaves like a team member — in your standups, on your roadmap, accountable for a slice of the product.

Other things we build

Tell us what you need built

Thirty minutes, free, no proposal. You leave with a scope, a number, and a date — or an honest reason why we’re not the right people.