Hey everyone, Yahia here.
I started Brand.dev with a simple, ambitious idea: personalize the web at scale. I wanted any developer, anywhere in the world, to be able to build beautiful, personalized products without jumping through hoops. No enterprise contracts. No lock-in. Cancel anytime. Just great data at a reasonable price.
That mission hasn't changed. Not even a little bit.
But something else has changed. We've grown beyond our name.
How we got here
When we launched Brand.dev, we were laser-focused on brand data. Logos, colors, fonts, company metadata. And we were really good at it. We still are.
But as we built, as we listened to you, as we expanded what we could do, we started venturing into territory that didn't quite fit under the "brand" umbrella anymore. AI-powered data extraction. Product intelligence. Custom queries against any website. Transaction identification. The list kept growing.
We didn't plan it this way. It happened because you asked us to do more, and we plan to keep saying yes.
At some point, I looked at what we had built and realized: we'd outgrown our name.
What we really do
When I step back and think about what Brand.dev actually provides, the answer is clear: context.
We provide context to software systems. We provide context to web apps. We provide context to AI agents.
That context is about the web. It's about companies. And soon, it'll be about people too.
Context is the thread that ties everything we do together. From extracting a company's visual identity to understanding what products they sell to answering custom questions about any website on the internet. It's all context. It's all about helping your software understand the world it operates in.
Context.dev is the name that captures that vision. It's the next evolution of what we are.
What this means for you
Here's the part I know you care about most: nothing breaks.
We've aimed to be backwards compatible from day one. We have never released a breaking change, and we're not starting now. There is no need to update your code. Your existing integrations will continue to work exactly as they do today. You'll keep getting all the latest updates, new features, improved data. Everything.
That said, if you want to be more in line with where we're headed, you can update your imports and endpoints at your own pace. But there is genuinely no rush. We'll support the existing paths for as long as you need them.
Brand data is here to stay
I want to be crystal clear about this: brand data will continue to be a first-class citizen. It's at the core of what we do, and that's not changing.
We'll keep releasing updates to improve our style guide extraction. We'll keep refining our logo detection. We'll keep making it easier to brand your products with pixel-perfect accuracy.
But now, we're also going to be building toward a more holistic view of the web: companies, their products, their digital presence, and eventually, the people behind them.
The bigger picture
When I started this company, I said I wanted to make the internet a more interesting place. I still believe that. The internet is at its best when software understands the world it's serving. When your app knows who it's talking to. When your platform can adapt, personalize, and create moments of delight.
That takes context. And that's exactly what we provide.
Context.dev is the next chapter. Same team. Same commitment to developer experience. Same obsession with data quality. Same flexible pricing.
Just a bigger vision.
We're going to keep building. We're going to keep pushing. And we're going to keep making the internet a more interesting place, one API call at a time.
Thank you for being part of this journey. The best is ahead of us.
- Yahia Bakour, Founder of Context.dev