Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link.
$1.50 per 1000 requests sounds cheap until you realize 73% of those requests return data you already had. We burned through $3,200 enriching 47,000 B2B leads before our HubSpot migration taught me which scraping actually matters.
The enrichment pipeline that almost worked
Our Oracle Cloud agents were pulling 8,000 leads daily from Apollo and ZoomInfo exports. Standard B2B enrichment: company size, tech stack, recent funding. The theory was simple — scrape their actual websites for fresh signals before the sales push.
BrightData Web Unlocker handled the proxy rotation and JavaScript rendering. Our extraction logic looked for:
