Zero is an AI CRM and revenue platform for fast-growing startups. It brings go-to-market tooling together, from lead generation to post-sales, so teams can keep customer context in one place and build agents that act on it.
Behind that experience is a constant need for fresh public data. Zero searches and scrapes millions of data points per day, keeping information on 20M+ companies up to date. Context.dev supports that work with web scraping, live web search for agents, and accurate brand assets.
Fresh data is part of the product
Zero bundles enriched information about companies, people, funding rounds, jobs, and other signals directly into its platform. Customers use that context to automate work such as inbound lead scoring, CRM updates, and churn-risk detection.
For co-founder Tuomo Riekki, the infrastructure behind that data has to hold up at scale:
"We search and scrape millions of data points per day so the quality, robustness and cost of the infrastructure providers we use is important to us."
The same infrastructure also needs to support customers building their own agents to track information across the internet. Freshness matters both to Zero's built-in data and to the research those agents perform.
Switching providers in probably less than five minutes
A mutual friend introduced Tuomo to Context.dev founder Yahia Bakour. When Zero moved from its existing scraping and web search providers, Tuomo used Codex to make the switch:
"Switching to Context.dev from our existing scraping and web search providers took probably less than 5min with Codex."
The API design helped make that migration straightforward. Tuomo found the APIs clean and easy for agents to understand and implement. The dashboard gave the team a place to test how different scraping types behaved before putting them into its workflows.
"Migrating to Context.dev was extremely easy. The APIs are clean and easy for agents to understand and implement."
Three ways Zero uses Context.dev
Keeping data on 20M+ companies current
Zero scrapes publicly available information about companies, buyer profiles, funding rounds, job posts, announcements, and news. Those inputs help keep its company data fresh:
"Allows us to keep an up-to-date fresh data about 20M+ companies."
That public context feeds the enriched data Zero customers already have inside their CRM and revenue workflows.
Giving custom agents live web context
Context.dev lets Zero's agents quickly search the internet. Customers can build custom agents with current information about the world, extending their research beyond the data already stored in the platform.
"Enables customers to build custom agents that have better realtime context about the world."
Showing accurate brand assets
Zero also uses Context.dev to show accurate company logos and colors. Alongside search and scraping, brand data gives the platform another way to represent the companies its customers work with.
Shipping improvements within hours
Tuomo also called out the speed of the Context.dev team. During the integration, the team added options including structured output with CSS selectors within a couple of hours:
"The team has insane shipping speed and implemented couple of additional options (like structured output with CSS selectors) in just couple of hours."
For Zero, Context.dev now supports three connected needs: fresh company data at scale, live web context for custom agents, and accurate brand assets inside the product. The migration took minutes, and the team could keep moving as its extraction needs evolved.
Building a CRM or agents that need fresh company context? Explore company enrichment with Context.dev, the Web Scraping API, and the Web Search API.