A Company of Three

It started with a question: what if we used the entire public web as a data source, and let Claude make sense of it?

Not to build a search engine. Not to scrape and dump. But to actually understand what companies do — their products, certifications, markets, specialisms — and turn that raw chaos of websites into clean, structured, genuinely useful directories.

The more we pulled on that thread, the bigger it got. Web data is everywhere. Claude is extraordinarily good at reading it, reasoning about it, and distilling it into something a human can actually use. So why does every industry directory still look like someone exported a spreadsheet in 2011?

We started asking which markets actually need this. Renewable energy was obvious — fast-moving, fragmented, critically important, and chronically underserved by decent data infrastructure. But the same problem exists in dozens of sectors. Logistics. Cleantech. Industrial manufacturing. Professional services. Anywhere there are hundreds or thousands of companies doing similar-but-distinct things, and no reliable way to navigate them.

That's the bigger idea behind FirmLens: use web data and the power of Claude to build deep, structured, continuously updated directories — for any vertical where better information creates real value. Renewable energy is where we started. It won't be where we stop.