What is Bardeen?
Bardeen is an AI-powered lead generation and workflow automation platform from Bardeen Inc. It helps teams collect prospect data from websites, research potential customers, find contact information, and prioritize leads based on user-defined criteria. Users can build custom web scrapers or start with templates designed for specific websites and lead sources.
The platform can move collected data into CSV files, Google Sheets, Airtable, and Notion. Bardeen presents its tools for industries and roles such as real estate, recruiting, private equity, music, event services, and independent businesses. It also states that its security program includes SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CASA Tier 2 and 3 certifications.
Key Features
- Web scraping: Extracts structured data and lead details from websites using custom or prebuilt premium scrapers.
- AI web search: Researches prospects at scale through AI and web search providers, including answering questions about website content.
- Contact enrichment: Finds and validates contact information so teams can prepare prospect records for outreach.
- AI qualification: Evaluates leads against a description of the user's ideal prospect and helps identify which records deserve attention.
- Data exports: Sends results to CSV, Google Sheets, Airtable, or Notion for further processing and collaboration.
- Workflow utilities: Supports data importing and utility actions without charging credits for those operations.
Use Cases
- Build targeted prospect lists from websites and online directories.
- Monitor real estate listings, enrich contacts, and tag properties with AI.
- Discover music artists through blogs, charts, and social platforms before finding outreach details.
- Research and qualify candidates or business prospects according to custom criteria.
- Export enriched and qualified records into existing team databases and spreadsheets.
Pricing
Bardeen uses a credit-based freemium model. Every account receives 100 free credits, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing period. The Basic plan costs $10 per month and includes 100 additional monthly credits. Premium costs $50 per month with annual billing and includes 1,000 additional credits per month. Enterprise pricing is custom and billed annually. Standard scraper, web search, and AI tool rows cost one credit each, while enrichment rows cost three credits. Utilities, imports, and exports are free.
Who Is It For?
Bardeen is intended for sales, operations, research, recruiting, and business development teams that need to source and qualify leads from the web. It can also suit solopreneurs and industry specialists who want to reduce manual prospecting, data collection, enrichment, and spreadsheet entry.
