What is the final deliverable of a Tooling Review?

You will receive a comprehensive report containing a detailed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis, a risk and compliance assessment, performance benchmarks of your current stack, and a strategic roadmap with actionable recommendations for optimization.

How much time and effort does this require from our team?

We designed the process to be highly efficient. It requires minimal time from your team: typically a 90-minute kick-off workshop to understand your stack and a final meeting to present and discuss our findings. We handle all the analysis.

Is the Tooling Review just a sales pitch for your managed service?

No. It is a standalone consulting engagement that provides genuine, data-driven value. The recommendations in our report can be implemented by your own team to improve your existing operations. The audit does, however, include a transparent and objective benchmark against our service to help you evaluate all your options.

We believe our current in-house solution is the most cost-effective. How can you prove otherwise?

That is a common perception, but it often overlooks significant hidden costs. Our TCO analysis is specifically designed to quantify the financial impact of engineering time spent on maintenance, data quality issues, and opportunity cost from system downtime. This provides a complete, data-backed financial picture, often revealing that a managed service offers a superior ROI.

Your tools are costing more than you think

You have an in-house web scraping solution, but do you know its true cost and risk profile? Our Tooling Review is a strategic audit of your entire data acquisition stack. We uncover hidden costs, identify performance bottlenecks, and assess compliance risks to give you a clear, data-driven path to optimization.

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Total cost of ownership

in-house vs managed

Engineering time
Proxies & unblocking
Infrastructure
Maintenance & rework

Built in-houseManaged by DoubleData

We scrape data from over 5 000 sources

PROBLEMS

It works, until it doesn't. Or it costs a fortune

Many companies build their own data acquisition stacks using a mix of open-source libraries, commercial tools, and custom scripts. While this approach provides initial control, it often creates a complex, inefficient, and risky "Franken-stack" that quietly drains resources and hinders growth.

The illusion of "free" tooling

Open-source tools like Selenium or Scrapy are free to use, but the total cost of ownership (TCO) is enormous. Your most expensive engineers spend hundreds of hours per year debugging scripts, managing proxies, and maintaining a fragile system instead of creating business value.

Inconsistent data quality

Your collection of different tools produces data in varying formats and quality levels. Broken parsers, incomplete data, and schema inconsistencies corrupt your analytics, break your models, and force your data science team to waste time on cleaning instead of analysis. This erodes the business's trust in your data.

The compliance "time bomb"

Your team operates in a legal grey area, unsure if their methods for handling proxies, user agents, and personal data are fully compliant with GDPR. This creates a significant, often unmeasured, legal and reputational risk for your entire organization.

The scalability wall

Your current toolset was adequate for a few websites, but it hits a hard limit when you try to scale. It cannot handle thousands of sources, high-frequency updates, or complex mobile apps without a massive, cost-prohibitive investment in infrastructure and expertise.

AUDIT

A strategic audit of your data acquisition engine

Our Tooling Review is not just a technical check. It is a comprehensive business and technology assessment designed to give you complete visibility into your data acquisition operations. We provide the objective, expert analysis you need to make informed decisions. What our Tooling Review delivers:

Data-driven roadmap

You receive a detailed report containing a performance benchmark, a full TCO breakdown, a risk matrix, and a strategic roadmap with concrete recommendations. This includes what to optimize, what to replace, and a transparent ROI comparison against our fully managed service.

Risk & Compliance Assessment

Our experts evaluate your entire data acquisition process against current legal standards, including GDPR. We deliver a clear report highlighting specific compliance gaps and potential risks, allowing you to proactively protect your business.

Full Stack Analysis

We meticulously examine every component of your stack: your source code, frameworks (Scrapy, Puppeteer, etc.), proxy vendor contracts, CAPTCHA solving services, and deployment infrastructure. We identify points of failure and areas for immediate improvement.

True TCO Calculation

We go beyond license fees and cloud bills. Our financial model calculates the true cost of your operations, factoring in the crucial "hidden" cost of your engineering team's time spent on maintenance, debugging, and vendor management.

Competitor visibility that accelerated growth

Our tailored scraping and data enrichment services allowed this Central and Eastern European qCommerce company to access critical competitor and market information. This facilitated informed decision-making and enabled them to refine their strategies, ultimately leading to accelerated growth and an enhanced competitive edge.

qCommerce

CEE Leader

Dynamic pricing built on competitor data

We provided this Central and Eastern European online grocery company with extensive scraping services, which allowed them to gather essential pricing and product data from competitors. This information helped them create a dynamic pricing strategy, resulting in increased sales and a stronger market presence.

Online Grocery

CEE Leader

Event and pricing data that grew market share

By leveraging our scraping services, this European ticket online sales company gained access to critical event and pricing data. This enabled them to refine their offerings, provide a more seamless user experience, and ultimately grow their market share in the competitive ticketing industry.

Online Ticketing

European Leader

Real-time restaurant data behind a better platform

By utilizing our comprehensive scraping services, this major European food delivery company gained access to valuable, real-time restaurant and menu data. This enabled them to optimize their platform and improve the user experience, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and revenue growth.

Food Delivery

European leader

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Gain the clarity you need to reduce costs, mitigate risks, and transform your data acquisition from a source of friction into a strategic enabler for your business.

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