Mendable
Mendable (SideGuide Technologies) provides tools to build enterprise-ready AI chat applications and high-quality web data ingestion for LLMs.
Founding Story
SideGuide was founded in 2022 by Caleb Peffer, Nicolas Camara, and Eric Ciarla. Initially focused on developer tools (SideGuide), the team joined Y Combinator (S22) and launched Mendable.ai in 2023 to enable AI-powered search for documentation. They later expanded/pivoted to Firecrawl to solve the problem of high-quality web data scraping for AI agents.
Discussions
No discussions yet
Be the first to start a discussion about Mendable
Leadership
Founders
Caleb Peffer
CEO of SideGuide Technologies. Finalist at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Holloway Prize competition in each of his four years of study.
Nicolas Silberstein Camara
CTO of SideGuide Technologies. Built and scaled the Mendable.ai platform; previously worked on developer tools at SideGuide.
Eric Ciarla
CMO/COO of SideGuide Technologies. Focuses on marketing and distribution; previously co-founded SideGuide and Mendable.
Executive Team
Caleb Peffer
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder of SideGuide Technologies and Firecrawl.
Nicolas Silberstein Camara
Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder of SideGuide Technologies and Firecrawl.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage based on message credits and SaaS subscriptions.
Pricing Tiers
500 message credits per month, Pre-built Components + API, Unlimited Data Sources, Analytics Platform, Model Customization, Data Connectors, Custom Fine-tuning, White-Label Components, Data Export
500+ message credits per month, Custom Models, Bring your own key, SSO, SLA & Premium Support, Custom Data Connectors
Target Markets
- AI Developers
- Enterprise software companies
- SaaS platforms
- Customer Support teams
- Customer support automation
- Technical documentation search
- AI Agent web data collection
- Enterprise RAG implementations
- MongoDB
- Snap
- 0x
- LangChain
History & Milestones
Announced $14.5 million Series A funding for Firecrawl (SideGuide's web data API) led by Nexus Venture Partners.
Released 'Tools and Actions' and European Data Storage powered by MongoDB.
Official launch of Mendable.ai, an AI chat platform for technical resources.
SideGuide Technologies Inc. founded by Caleb Peffer, Nicolas Camara, and Eric Ciarla.
Accepted into Y Combinator's S22 batch.
1 AI Tool by Mendable
Firecrawl
8moAPI to scrape, crawl, and extract structured LLM-ready data from websites.
