Bardeen

Bardeen lives where a solo founder's prospecting actually happens: in the browser. Instead of waiting for data to arrive through an API, it works on the pages in front of you — a LinkedIn search, a directory listing, a conference attendee page — scraping the visible results, enriching each person with contact details, verifying emails, and using AI to qualify who matches your customer profile before writing the survivors into your sheet or CRM. That one job — turning an afternoon of manual list-building into a ten-minute review — is the core of what founders automate with it, and its own pricing-page example prices it honestly: scraping ten profiles through extraction, verification and qualification costs 64 credits. Beyond prospecting, Bardeen's playbooks handle recurring chores like saving research into Notion, summarising pages, monitoring sites for changes, and moving data between web apps, and you can describe an automation in plain language and have its assistant assemble it. Pre-built scrapers cover 100-plus popular sites, and you can build your own for a niche source your competitors cannot easily copy. The model to understand is rows, not runs: every row an action creates costs credits, and enrichment rows cost triple, so a single ambitious scrape of a large list can consume a month of a small plan. It complements rather than replaces a general automator — it has no interest in your invoicing or fulfilment flows — but for outbound-led businesses it does the one job the API tools genuinely cannot.

Billed per credit, charged per row of output: scraper, web-search and AI-tool rows cost 1 credit each, enrichment rows cost 3 credits, utilities and CSV import/export are free. Every account always gets 100 free credits/month; unused credits expire each period.