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Seriously though, automation may not be a good value proposition, even if the companies with the data that SCF is scraping manually want to cooperate. It seems the human scrapers are a fixed cost. It's not getting harder to do manual scraping as new customers come on board. The business is already paying this fixed cost. The business is currently doing well. All the business really needs to do is continue growing and the fixed cost will continue to shrink as a proportion of the business.
Why would the business care in that situation? Reduce from 12 mid-range salaries to 3-4 high salaries? They would do well just to break even on salary expense, so why bother? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.