Firecrawl began as a fix for its founders' own chatbot. Now it wants to be the library card for AI agents - and to pay some of the people who stock the shelves.

Models get the applause. Ha Dao has spent six years working on the data, people and privacy architecture that determine whether those models are useful at all.
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