The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

Data engineering consultancies like Data Prism often encounter a significant challenge during their first year: pricing web scraping as a one-off software development project. They have found that changing the way we talk to clients is really important. When we say we will take care of their automated data extraction pipeline it makes a difference. This changes the way we work with them from a one-time job to a big ongoing partnership. We are not someone they hire to write code we are the people