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Clearbit died. Here's a pay-per-call company enrichment API for AI agents ($0.03/lookup)

#ai #langchain #python #webdev

Clearbit's free API shut down April 30, 2025. The replacement (HubSpot Breeze Intelligence) requires an enterprise contract that starts around $20K/year.

If you're building AI agents that need company context from a domain name, you've probably felt this gap.

I built a pay-per-call alternative: POST a domain, get back structured JSON. No subscription. No contract. $0.03 per lookup.

How it works 

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    'https://api.ideafactorylab.org/company-info',
    json={'domain': 'stripe.com'}
)
print(resp.json())
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Returns:

{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "name": "Stripe",
  "description": "Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.",
  "industry": "fintech",
  "founded_year": 2010,
  "headquarters": "San Francisco, CA",
  "employee_range": "1000+",
  "social_links": {
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/stripe",
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/stripe"
  },
  "tech_signals": ["AWS", "React"],
  "confidence": "medium"
}
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Powered by AI synthesis from public web data. Honest framing: this is not a database like Clearbit was. It's real-time extraction from the company's public homepage. Coverage is excellent for any company with a real web presence.

For AI agents specifically

If you're using LangChain, CrewAI, or the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Cinderwright tool wraps this (and 2,838 other services) in a single tool your agent can call in plain English:

from cinderwright.langchain import CinderwrightTool

tool = CinderwrightTool(api_key="sk_cw_...")
# Agent calls: "company info for anthropic.com"
# Tool routes to /company-info automatically
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Also shipping: URL to Markdown ($0.005/page)

While I was at it, I added a URL-to-Markdown endpoint. Same idea: POST a URL, get back clean readable text stripped of navigation, ads, and boilerplate. Useful for RAG pipelines that need to read web pages.

resp = requests.post(
    'https://api.ideafactorylab.org/url-to-markdown',
    json={'url': 'https://example.com'}
)
print(resp.json()['markdown'])
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Get a free key

$0.10 free credit, no deposit, no credit card:

curl -X POST https://api.ideafactorylab.org/proxy/setup \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{"wallet": "0xYourBaseWallet"}'
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Or try the free demo with no key at all:

import cinderwright
print(cinderwright.demo('company info for apple.com'))
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