Case Study: Vercel achieves real-time web intelligence and revenue insights with Browserbase

How Vercel built a real-time web intelligence system with Browserbase

Vercel, a provider of developer tools and cloud infrastructure, needed to build a reliable web intelligence system to track technology adoption and identify business opportunities across the internet. Their challenge was that legacy tools like Puppeteer were too brittle and error-prone at scale, and they were blocked by CDN security measures, preventing them from accessing the critical data they needed from websites.

Browserbase provided the solution by powering Vercel's internal tool, Prism, with its browser automation and Advanced Stealth features. This allowed Vercel to bypass CDN challenges, run thousands of browsers in parallel, and reliably crawl websites to gather high-quality data. The results included a custom churn warning system to improve customer retention and a unique "ship velocity index" that provides real-time intelligence on how fast companies are updating their websites, directly fueling Vercel's revenue engine and sales forecasting.

Vercel

Abhi Sivasailam

Vice President of Data