I built an API that lets AI agents see the web like humans do
Hey everyone! I'm Ron — an RT (respiratory therapist) by day, solo founder by night.
I kept running into the same problem with my AI agents: they couldn't verify the real world. They'd get blocked by bot detection, see cached/stale data, and had no way to confirm if a business was actually open right now.
No API combined all three capabilities I needed — residential IPs, GPU screenshots, and phone verification — in one place.
So I built Local-Eye.
What it does:
👁️ Residential IPs — Browse without getting blocked. Your agent sees what a human sees.
📸 GPU-rendered screenshots — Full-page captures with JavaScript rendering. No more parsing HTML.
📞 AI phone verification — Call a business and confirm their hours, address, or services. An AI agent that actually picks up the phone.
Pricing: Free tier (5 requests/day), Starter ($9/mo), Pro ($49/mo), Enterprise ($499/mo)
Tech stack: FastAPI + SQLite + Cloudflare tunnels + Vercel. Built mostly by my AI co-developer while I was at the hospital.
What I've learned so far:
• The "scraping" market is crowded but nobody does real-time phone verification
• Free tier users convert faster when they can test without a credit card
• Building with an AI agent is 10x faster but you still need to know what you're building
Would love feedback from anyone building agents or doing web scraping. What's your biggest verification headache?
