Real Estate
How a real estate startup unlocked 900+ hours a month by automating data extraction from public company records
In real estate, information is leverage. The more context you have on a property owner, the better your chances of closing a deal, structuring terms, or vetting risk. But the critical data—like the people behind LLCs-often lives inside clunky, outdated public government portals with no APIs and no integrations.
That was the case for one fast-growing real estate startup. Their users regularly uploaded lists of LLCs, hoping to uncover insights about ownership and corporate structure. But enriching that data meant slogging through public records manually-something they didn’t even offer because it wasn’t scalable.
Then they found CopyCat.
A Goldmine of Data, Trapped in Legacy Systems
Every day, users submitted batches of LLCs for research. The startup knew there was valuable information available on free sites - names, addresses, titles of directors-but the process to get it looked like this:
Search each LLC manually
Copy-paste director data field-by-field
Repeat across dozens or hundreds of records
Doing this at scale wasn’t just inefficient—it was impossible.
The Opportunity Cost of Manual Work
Before CopyCat, their options were limited:
Hiring temps to mine government sites manually
Burning dev cycles trying to build brittle scraping scripts
Or worse—skipping the data altogether
They chose the third option. And it left a massive blind spot in their product.
CopyCat Browser Agents to the Rescue
With CopyCat, they now use browser agents that:
Automatically search public databases for each LLC
Extract structured data on directors, addresses, and roles
Feed that data directly into their internal enrichment pipeline
All without writing or maintaining custom code. And without any engineering overhead.
The result? A process that used to be skipped entirely is now running at full scale—unlocking over 900 hours of manual work every month.
Turn Public Records Into Competitive Advantage
If your product depends on public data buried in old portals, don’t let that stop you from scaling.
CopyCat lets you build automations to turn old websites into usable APIs—so you can focus on building, not clicking.