At a glance
- ~0
- Hours per week of ongoing engineering maintenance
- ~2x
- Monthly Browserless usage growth over ~4 months
- 30‑50%
- Month-over-month customer growth since launch
- ~99.98%
- Session completion rate over the past 6 months
The challenge
Ace Influence is an AI-native influencer marketing agency for consumer brands. A brand manager logs in, submits a campaign brief, an AI agent runs the market research, and then sources creators to collaborate with.
When the agency's existing creator database isn't deep enough for a specific niche, its Creator Radar feature kicks in to find new creators. That means pulling fresh creator profile data at scale across social platforms: demographics, performance metrics, and contact details that feed straight into the AI pipeline.
The problem was reliability and scale. Social profile pages load inconsistently, often failing to open with no feedback and requiring constant retries. Ace Influence first built its own Puppeteer-based browser automation, but it didn't scale as the customer base grew, and hosting and maintaining the infrastructure in-house was more overhead than the team wanted to carry.
The solution
Browserless now handles the browser automation layer of Ace Influence's sourcing workflow. It runs alongside a search API to reliably open and load creator profile pages, and the extracted data flows straight into the AI pipeline that digests demographics, performance, and contact information.
The key shift was moving reliability and scale off the team's plate and onto Browserless.
The results
With Browserless, Ace Influence turned an unreliable, self-hosted browser automation stack into a dependable data source it barely has to think about.
The team set Browserless up once and has rarely needed to go back in to debug or fix errors, even as sourcing volume and customer growth climbed, with no vendor switching considered.
We had our own version doing the same thing, it just didn't scale, and hosting it ourselves was a lot of work. Browserless made sourcing creators a lot easier and a lot faster.
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Sourcing data at scale across sites that load inconsistently and fail silently? Browserless handles the retries and reliability so your pipeline doesn't have to.
Reliable creator data, without the babysitting.