Context.dev GTM brain

Context.dev provides developers an API to scrape, search, monitor and structure live web data for AI agents and applications.

category

Web data API for AI agents

market profile

  • text: Agent and RAG applications require current web content in formats their models and pipelines can use.
  • text: The category includes specialist scraping, crawling and search APIs such as Firecrawl, Exa and Parallel.

personas

  • title: AI application developer
    pains:
    • Websites render inconsistently and are costly to parse into model-ready data
    • Agent answers go stale without live search and retrieval
  • title: Engineering lead for data infrastructure
    pains:
    • Maintaining crawling, proxies and monitoring distracts from product work
    • Production teams need predictable throughput, spend and support
  • title: Founder of an AI SaaS product
    pains:
    • Building company enrichment or personalized onboarding from scratch slows shipping
    • Needs a low-friction way to test web data quality before committing

icp

  • text: Software and AI product teams building agents, RAG, enrichment or personalized onboarding are core targets; public examples include Upstash and Mintlify.
  • text: The self-serve free and developer tiers suit small builders, while enterprise features address larger teams with security and custom-volume needs.

message pillars

  • text: Connect agents to current web information.
  • text: Combine collection methods behind a single developer interface.
  • text: Try without procurement friction.

objections

  • objection: Our current crawler already works.
    response: Benchmark the same URLs and desired output against the incumbent, including integration effort and failed requests; customer stories describe migrations.
  • objection: Can it scale within enterprise procurement constraints?
    response: Enterprise plans list custom limits, SSO and an uptime SLA; validate actual workload and security terms with sales.

competitors

  • name: Firecrawl
    why: AI-focused web scraping and crawling API, explicitly cited in customer migration stories.
  • name: Exa
    why: Search API used to ground AI applications in web data.
  • name: Parallel
    why: Web search and research infrastructure for AI agents.

influencers

  • name: Yahia Bakour
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yahia-bakour_contextdev-yc-s26-turns-the-live-web-into-activity-7490830960649949184-19tQ
    why: Founder shares the YC launch and product positioning.

keywords

  • web scraping API for AI agents
  • website crawl API
  • web search API for LLM
  • RAG web data
  • structured web data API
  • company enrichment API
  • web monitoring API

voice

  • Developer-first
  • Confident and concrete
  • Fast-to-value

signals

  • text: A product team is launching an agent, RAG system or onboarding workflow that needs current website data.
  • text: An engineering team is benchmarking or replacing an existing crawler because of integration, quality or cost.

stack

  • API
  • SDKs
  • CLI
  • MCP

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: $0/month; paid Developer plan $20/month

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • developer documentation
  • LinkedIn
  • YC launch
  • customer case studies

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Yahia Bakour
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Founder at Context.dev, building the future of web context for AI. Previously Principal SWE/Manager at Sunrun. Ex-Amazon SDE2, tech lead on tier-1 retail checkout platform. Co-founder at StockAlarm.io (acquired), scaled to 225K+ users, 100K+ daily notifications.

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