SideGuide Technologies, Inc
SideGuide Technologies (operating as Firecrawl) provides developer tools and infrastructure to turn websites into LLM-ready data for AI agents and applications.
At a Glance
- AI Startups
- Enterprise Data Teams
- Developer Tools
- B2B SaaS
AI Tools by SideGuide Technologies, Inc
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Open Agent Builder
Open Source Web Scraping Agent Framework
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Products & Services
API that crawls, scrapes, and maps websites into LLM-ready Markdown or JSON. Handles JS rendering, proxies, and rate limits.
Enterprise-ready AI chat platform that allows users to chat with their own data and documentation.
Self-hostable version of the Firecrawl core engine available on GitHub.
Market Position
Firecrawl positions itself as the easiest and most reliable way to extract web data for AI, competing with traditional scrapers (like Bright Data or Apify) by offering an AI-first, developer-centric API that handles all cleaning and structure automatically.
Leadership
Founders
Caleb Peffer
Co-founder and CEO of SideGuide Technologies. Previously led development of Mendable.ai. Engineering background.
Nicolas Camara
Co-founder and CTO of SideGuide Technologies. Key architect of Firecrawl and Mendable.ai.
Eric Ciarla
Co-founder and CMO/COO. Focused on marketing and distribution. Previously grew Mendable.ai and sold to customers like Snapchat.
Executive Team
Caleb Peffer
CEO & Co-founder
Leader in AI data infrastructure.
Nicolas Camara
CTO & Co-founder
Expert in web crawling and AI integrations.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
SideGuide was founded to improve developer experiences with AI. After building Mendable.ai (an AI chat platform), the founders realized that getting clean, structured data from the web was the biggest bottleneck for LLM applications. They built Firecrawl to solve this for themselves and later pivoted to focus on web data infrastructure.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based subscription with credit-based pricing for API access.
Pricing Tiers
500 one-time credits, 2 concurrent requests, low rate limits.
3,000 credits/mo, 5 concurrent requests, basic support. ($16/mo billed yearly)
100,000 credits/mo, 50 concurrent requests, standard support. ($83/mo billed yearly)
500,000 credits/mo, 100 concurrent requests, priority support. ($333/mo billed yearly)
1,000,000 credits/mo, 150 concurrent requests, priority support. ($599/mo billed yearly)
Unlimited pages, custom concurrency, dedicated SLA, SSO, and advanced security.
Target Markets
- AI Startups
- Enterprise Data Teams
- Developer Tools
- B2B SaaS
- RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
- Lead Enrichment
- Competitive Intelligence
- SEO & Content Marketing
- Market Research
- AI Agent Training
- Shopify
- Zapier
- Apple
- Alibaba