companyctx

The deterministic B2B company context router. Zero keys. Schema-locked JSON your agent pipelines can actually trust.

pipx install companyctx   # current repo version: 0.5.0 — schema_version 0.5.0, cache, reviews, FM-7 floor
companyctx fetch acme-bakery.com --json

{
  "data": {
    "fetched_at": "2026-04-22T18:35:02.767112Z",
    "mentions": null,
    "pages": {
      "about_text": "Acme Bakery has served Portland, OR since 2010. ...",
      "homepage_text": "Acme Bakery is a bakery in Portland, OR. Founded 2010. We're a team of 3. ...",
      "services": ["Custom cakes", "Catering", "Wholesale bread", "Pastry boxes"],
      "tech_stack": ["WordPress", "Elementor"]
    },
    "reviews": null,
    "signals": null,
    "site": "acme-bakery.com",
    "social": null
  },
  "error": null,
  "provenance": {
    "site_text_trafilatura": {
      "cost_incurred": 0,
      "error": null,
      "latency_ms": 412,
      "provider_version": "0.1.0",
      "status": "ok"
    }
  },
  "schema_version": "0.5.0",
  "status": "ok"
}

One site in. One schema-locked JSON object out. No API keys for the zero-key path. Graceful partials on anti-bot blocks. The envelope is versioned via a top-level schema_version field so agents can branch on shape without substring-parsing.

reviews / social / signals / mentions are reserved in the CompanyContext schema. Today reviews can populate when the reviews_google_places direct-API provider is configured; social, signals, and mentions remain deferred. The default --mock fixture tree still exercises the zero-key baseline shape byte-for-byte.

Status

v0.5.0 is the current repo version. What's shipped:

• Envelope contract — {schema_version, status, data, provenance, error?} with status ∈ {ok, partial, degraded} and a structured EnvelopeError ({code, message, suggestion}) on non-ok runs. extra="forbid" on every model. schema_version Literal is "0.5.0". See docs/SCHEMA.md.
• Zero-key Attempt 1 — site_text_trafilatura (TLS-impersonated fetch via curl_cffi + trafilatura extraction). Populates data.pages.* (homepage_text, about_text, services, tech_stack). 20/20 envelope-ok on a shape-balanced zero-key probe at a fresh Chrome fingerprint; see docs/ZERO-KEY.md.
• Smart-proxy Attempt 2 — smart_proxy_http (vendor-agnostic URL-style proxy). User supplies COMPANYCTX_SMART_PROXY_URL; env-unset surfaces as not_configured with an actionable suggestion rather than a crash. Named- vendor adapter lands after the smart-proxy vendor eval (tracking: #63).
• SQLite fetch cache (Vertical Memory wiring). --from-cache / --refresh / --no-cache on fetch, plus cache list and cache clear --site X / --older-than 7d. XDG paths via platformdirs; schema-versioned migrations. cache_corrupted is a first-class EnvelopeErrorCode.
• FM-7 honesty contract — EMPTY_RESPONSE_BYTES raised from 64 to 1024 (COX-52 / #91). HTTP 200 with <1024 UTF-8 bytes of extracted text now surfaces as error.code: empty_response instead of silent ok. The top-level status is partial or degraded depending on whether any parallel provider still succeeded.
• NXDOMAIN routed to no_provider_succeeded — unresolvable hostnames are dead hosts, not SSRF attempts (COX-49 / #86).
• CLI verbs — fetch, schema (emits Draft 2020-12 JSON Schema), validate, providers list, cache list, cache clear (with --json where applicable).
• py.typed marker + public-API re-exports — from companyctx import Envelope, EnvelopeError, CompanyContext, ... works straight off the package root; downstream mypy sees concrete types.

What's not shipped yet and is explicitly deferred (the CLI surface rejects these with a tracking-issue pointer rather than silently accepting them):

• batch <csv> — stub, prints an error and exits non-zero. Tracked in #9.
• --config <path> TOML loader — stub; environment variables and defaults only today. Tracked in #9.
• Direct-API (Attempt 3) providers beyond Google Places — Yelp Fusion, YouTube Data, Brave Search (mentions tracking: #58). Today only reviews_google_places is registered; data.social / data.mentions stay null until their providers land, and data.reviews stays null unless Google Places is configured.
• Site-heuristic signals provider — planned alongside the direct-API slate; populates data.signals.copyright_year, last_blog_post_at, team_size_claim.
• companyctx fetch --markdown — experimental flag labelled in help text; runs fail fast. Markdown output belongs in a downstream synthesis step, not here (tracking: #68).

Measured 97% envelope-ok rate on a 100-site real-world sample on the v0.1 zero-key baseline. A 209-site partner-integration re-classification against the v0.4 FM-7 floor (research/2026-04-23-cox-52-post-fix-reclassification.md) puts the post-fix FM-7 rate at 0 / 209. Full breakdown in research/2026-04-21-tls-impersonation-spike.md and docs/ZERO-KEY.md.

Schema + CLI surface in docs/SPEC.md and docs/SCHEMA.md; architecture in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md; release-readiness ADR in decisions/2026-04-21-v0.1.0-release-readiness.md.

What this is (and isn't)

IS

• A schema-locked context router. The Pydantic v2 envelope is the product. Providers come and go; the contract agents consume does not.
• A Deterministic Waterfall. Zero-key stealth fetch first → smart-proxy provider (if configured) → direct-API provider (if configured). Every attempt returns the same shape.
• A narrow muscle in the brains-and-muscles pattern. Your frontier model is the brain; companyctx is one of many CLIs it pipes through.
• A local-first memory layer. The SQLite cache is Vertical Memory: a queryable local B2B dataset that compounds as a byproduct of normal use. Wired via --from-cache / --refresh / --no-cache on fetch and the cache list / cache clear subcommands. XDG paths via platformdirs; schema-versioned migrations.

ISN'T

• Not a scraper competing on scale. Residential-proxy / headless-browser infrastructure is a commodity layer — we compose it via a SmartProxyProvider interface, we don't out-build it.
• Not an agent framework. Orchestration lives upstream.
• Not a hosted service. Local pipx CLI. No rented infra. No credits.
• Not a synthesis engine. Our output is the input for synthesis.
• Not a Cloudflare bypass. Zero-key covers the majority of small-biz homepages. It won't defeat serious anti-bot — see the coverage matrix.
• Not a people-data tool. Companies only. Contact enrichment belongs upstream (Apollo, Clearbit, manual).
• Not an MCP server — ever, in our roadmap. MCP's ~50k-token schema dump defeats a muscle built to save tokens. Agents find us via SKILL.md; the CLI + jq + stdout are the composition layer. See decisions/2026-04-20-skill-md-not-mcp.md.

The Deterministic Waterfall

  Attempt 1 — Zero-key stealth       (TLS+HTTP/2 impersonation + trafilatura + extruct)
            ↓  403 / challenge / timeout?
  Attempt 2 — Smart-proxy provider   (user-keyed, vendor-agnostic)
            ↓  still blocked?
  Attempt 3 — Direct-API provider    (user-keyed — Google Places, Yelp Fusion, YouTube)
            ↓
  { schema_version, status, data, provenance, error? }

Every attempt maps to the same Pydantic schema. Downstream pipelines never branch on which attempt succeeded — they branch on the envelope's status: ok | partial | degraded.

On full block with no Attempt-2/3 providers configured:

{
  "data": { "fetched_at": "...", "mentions": null, "pages": null, "reviews": null, "signals": null, "site": "example.com", "social": null },
  "error": {
    "code": "blocked_by_antibot",
    "message": "blocked_by_antibot (HTTP 403)",
    "suggestion": "configure a smart-proxy provider key or skip this prospect"
  },
  "provenance": { "site_text_trafilatura": { "cost_incurred": 0, "error": "blocked_by_antibot (HTTP 403)", "latency_ms": 842, "provider_version": "0.1.0", "status": "failed" } },
  "schema_version": "0.5.0",
  "status": "partial"
}

Never raises. Never crashes your pipeline. Every run comes back well-formed.

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the full picture and docs/ZERO-KEY.md for honest anti-bot scoping.

Zero-key coverage — honestly

* Stealth fetcher: curl_cffi pinned to impersonate="chrome146". Spike method, raw JSONL, and stale-fingerprint decay analysis in docs/ZERO-KEY.md + research/2026-04-21-tls-impersonation-spike.md. Numbers come from measurement, not marketing.

Brains-and-muscles pipe

companyctx fetch acme-bakery.com --json \
  | jq '.data.pages | {services, tech_stack, homepage: .homepage_text[:280]}' \
  | claude -p "write a 6-section outreach brief from this context"

import json, subprocess
ctx = json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["companyctx", "fetch", "acme-bakery.com", "--json"]))
if ctx["status"] != "ok":
    err = ctx["error"] or {}
    print(f"heads up: {err.get('code')} — {err.get('message')} → {err.get('suggestion')}")
brief = synthesize(ctx["data"])   # your synthesis call, your prompts, your weights

Branch on status (not on try/except). Branch on error.code (closed enum), not on substring-matching error.message.

companyctx never calls an LLM. The brain upstream decides what the context means.

Install

v0.5.0 is the current repo version:

pipx install companyctx
companyctx --version   # companyctx 0.5.0
companyctx fetch acme-bakery.com --mock --json

From source:

git clone https://github.com/dmthepm/companyctx.git
cd companyctx
pip install -e ".[dev,extract,reviews,youtube]"
companyctx --help

Design invariants

• Schema is the product. Providers are replaceable; the CompanyContext envelope is not. Raw observations only — inference lives in the downstream synthesis layer.
• Graceful-partial always. Providers never raise uncaught. Every failure maps to ProviderRunMetadata.status per provider and the top-level status on the envelope.
• Vertical Memory. The SQLite cache compounds into a queryable local B2B dataset under XDG paths via the --refresh / --from-cache / --no-cache flags and the cache list / cache clear subcommands. Schema-versioned migrations make cache evolution explicit (see docs/SPEC.md §Cache).
• Provider pluggability. Every deterministic call class is discovered via Python entry points (companyctx.providers). Today site_text_trafilatura (zero-key), smart_proxy_http (user-keyed, vendor-agnostic), and reviews_google_places (direct-API reviews) are registered. Yelp, YouTube, Brave, and the readability-lxml bus-factor fallback remain deferred. See docs/PROVIDERS.md.
• robots.txt respected by default. --ignore-robots is an explicit CLI-only flag; never settable via TOML or env.
• Deterministic mocks. fixtures/<site>/ drives --mock; re-runs produce byte-identical output modulo fetched_at.

Providers

Registered today (run companyctx providers list to introspect):

Deferred / candidate:

Full rationale + the SmartProxyProvider interface in docs/PROVIDERS.md.

Layout

companyctx/            # package
  cli.py               # Typer app
  core.py              # Deterministic Waterfall orchestrator (Attempt 1 + 2)
  schema.py            # pydantic v2 models — the JSON contract
  extract.py           # HTML → SiteSignals extractor shared by zero-key + smart-proxy
  http.py              # stealth fetcher helpers
  robots.py            # robots.txt enforcement
  security.py          # SSRF + response-cap + redirect guardrails
  providers/
    __init__.py        # plugin loader (importlib.metadata.entry_points)
    base.py            # ProviderBase protocol + FetchContext + Literal category enum
    site_text_trafilatura.py    # Attempt 1 — zero-key homepage extraction
    smart_proxy_http.py         # Attempt 2 — vendor-agnostic smart proxy
    smart_proxy_base.py         # shared helpers for smart-proxy providers
SKILL.md               # ~150-token agent-discovery surface (not MCP)
docs/
  SPEC.md              # frozen spec snapshot (v0.4 envelope)
  SCHEMA.md            # Pydantic envelope in detail
  ARCHITECTURE.md      # brains-and-muscles + Deterministic Waterfall + Vertical Memory
  ZERO-KEY.md          # honest anti-bot coverage + graceful-partial contract
  PROVIDERS.md         # provider list + SmartProxyProvider interface
  VALIDATION.md        # two-phase acceptance protocol
  REFERENCES.md        # upstream OSS deps
decisions/             # in-repo ADRs (walks-the-walk for OSS readers)
fixtures/              # per-site raw HTML + expected.json (drives --mock)
tests/                 # pytest, hypothesis where useful

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Conventional commits, ~400 LOC per PR, one PR per milestone or provider. ruff + mypy strict + pytest ≥70% cov. Architecture-shape changes go through decisions/ first.

Commercial Support & Custom Pipelines

companyctx is built and maintained by Noontide. We use it as the foundational context routing muscle for our own automated B2B outbound engines. If your team needs a fully managed, agentic sales pipeline (Apollo → Context Routing → LLM Synthesis → HubSpot/Outreach) but you don't have the engineering resources to build and maintain the orchestrator yourself, we can help. 👉 Work with the Noontide Agency to get this built for you.

License

MIT. Copyright 2026 Noontide Collective LLC.

Support

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