A Fintech Startup Scales to 15,000 Reports Monthly

"While our competitors rely on much larger teams to handle the same workload, Zenrows allows us to automate our scraping process, letting us achieve more with fewer resources and stay competitive."CTO

01Anti-bot bottlenecks threatening growth

The customer, a Canadian fintech startup specializing in B2B risk assessment, faced increasing pressure to deliver due diligence reports faster to compete with larger players. Manual copy-pasting from multiple sources was no longer enough, so the team attempted to automate data collection through web scraping. Frequent anti-bot blocks wasted engineering time and resources, making the first attempt inefficient.

"We were using a form guide to copy-paste information into the database manually. We then switched to web scraping to automate this task, but we also got blocked a lot. This was a new threat to our business, and we had to find a lasting solution."Kamal

Manual processes were slow and inefficient, with the team spending significant time copy-pasting from corporate registries and business databases.
Anti-bot systems like Cloudflare blocked initial scraping attempts, causing failed requests and broken pipelines.
Inconsistent data formats across regions required manual standardization.
Limited scalability kept the team from expanding beyond manual-processing constraints.
Higher operational costs from labor-intensive workflows, and slower turnaround times than competitors with larger workforces.

02From copy-paste bottleneck to 15,000 monthly reports

After their initial scraping solution failed to overcome advanced anti-bot protections, the team benchmarked several services before selecting Zenrows for its anti-bot bypass capabilities and integration.

"Zenrows is the best we’ve found so far. When we were looking for a web scraping solution that could go through anti-bot measures at scale and reliably, we discovered Zenrows, and it works perfectly."CTO

Anti-bot bypass. Navigated Cloudflare and other protection systems that had blocked previous solutions.
Rotating premium proxies. Enabled large-volume cross-regional access for geo-locked data.
Simple API integration. Integrated with an AWS-hosted Node.js app using Axios and Cheerio in weeks.
High-volume processing. Concurrency and auto-managed scaling handled demand spikes.

03Scaling with automated data collection

80% reduction in manual data collection time.
6,000 to 15,000 monthly reports processed.
99%+ success rate on previously blocked websites.
Scaled operations without increasing headcount.

"So far, our reports have significantly gone up with Zenrows. We’ve received great value from your team, and that’s why we’re sticking around. Your anti-bot bypass feature helped us a lot."CTO