Deploy and Host Fire Enrich on Railway

Fire Enrich is an open-source AI-powered data enrichment platform that transforms simple email lists into comprehensive company datasets. Using a multi-agent AI system powered by Firecrawl and OpenAI, it extracts detailed business intelligence including company profiles, industry information, funding data, tech stacks, and more with full source citations.

About Hosting Fire Enrich

Deploying Fire Enrich on Railway provides a streamlined, production-ready environment for running this Next.js 15 application. The deployment requires minimal configuration—just two API keys (Firecrawl and OpenAI)—and Railway handles the rest. Fire Enrich is a stateless application, meaning it doesn't require a database or persistent storage, making it lightweight and easy to scale. The platform processes CSV files with email addresses and uses AI to enrich them with company data in real-time. Railway automatically manages the build process, environment variables, and public networking, allowing you to focus on enriching your data rather than managing infrastructure. The multi-stage Docker deployment ensures optimal performance with minimal resource usage.

Common Use Cases

• Sales & Lead Enrichment: Transform prospect email lists into detailed company profiles for sales teams to better target and personalize outreach campaigns
• Market Research & Analysis: Gather comprehensive company data including funding, tech stack, and industry information for competitive analysis and market research
• CRM Data Enhancement: Enrich existing CRM databases with up-to-date company information, ensuring your sales and marketing teams have accurate intelligence
• Investment Due Diligence: Quickly compile detailed company profiles for investment research, including funding history, technology adoption, and market positioning
• Account-Based Marketing: Build targeted account lists with rich firmographic data to power personalized marketing campaigns and ABM strategies

Dependencies for Fire Enrich Hosting

• Firecrawl API: Web scraping service that powers the data collection engine. Fire Enrich uses Firecrawl to intelligently crawl and extract information from company websites and web sources.
• OpenAI API: Provides the language models (GPT) that power the multi-agent AI system for intelligent data extraction, validation, and enrichment across multiple data fields.

Deployment Dependencies

• Firecrawl API Key: Sign up and get your API key at https://firecrawl.link/api-keys
• OpenAI API Key: Create an account and generate your API key at platform.openai.com/api-keys
• Fire Enrich Repository: Original source code at github.com/firecrawl/fire-enrich
• Firecrawl Documentation: Learn more about the API at docs.firecrawl.dev

Implementation Details

Fire Enrich uses a sophisticated multi-agent AI architecture for data enrichment:

User Upload (CSV) → Fire Enrich Processing Pipeline
    ↓
[Data Agent] → Extracts basic company info
    ↓
[Industry Agent] → Determines industry/sector
    ↓
[Technology Agent] → Identifies tech stack
    ↓
[Funding Agent] → Finds funding information
    ↓
[Validation Agent] → Validates & consolidates
    ↓
Enriched CSV Output

Each agent builds context from previous agents, ensuring accurate and comprehensive enrichment. The application is built with:

• Frontend: Next.js 15 with React 19, Tailwind CSS, and Radix UI components
• Backend: Next.js API routes handling AI orchestration
• AI Processing: Sequential agent system with OpenAI for extraction
• Data Collection: Firecrawl API for web scraping

Environment Configuration Example:

# Required API Keys
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-xxxxxxxxxxxxx
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxx

# Optional (Railway handles these automatically)
PORT=8080
NODE_ENV=production
NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1

Cost Management: Both Firecrawl and OpenAI use usage-based pricing. Monitor your API usage through their respective dashboards to control costs. For production deployments, consider:

• Setting up billing alerts in both platforms
• Implementing rate limiting for high-volume processing
• Using development mode limits for testing

Why Deploy Fire Enrich on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Fire Enrich on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.

Additional Benefits for Fire Enrich:

• Instant Deployment: Deploy in minutes with just two API keys—no complex configuration needed
• Automatic Scaling: Railway handles traffic spikes during large CSV processing jobs automatically
• Built-in Monitoring: Track your Fire Enrich instance performance and resource usage in real-time
• Zero DevOps: No need to manage servers, containers, or networking—Railway handles it all
• Cost-Effective: Pay only for what you use with Railway's usage-based pricing, perfect for data enrichment workloads that vary