Multi‑Agent Firecrawl Research: My Fallback Chain That Refuses to Pretend It Knows the Company

I didn't build my company research pipeline to be clever. I built it because enrichment is where systems quietly start lying. A recruiter asks for "Cedrus" and the internet gives you three Cedruses, two dead domains, and a LinkedIn vanity URL that doesn't match the legal name. If your pipeline collapses all of that into a single confident paragraph, you've created the worst kind of bug: one that looks correct. So here's the multi-agent Firecrawl research flow I wired into this recruitment platform—specifically the part that uses Firecrawl for enrichment and falls back to Bing when Firecrawl fails or has low confidence . flowchart TD inputQuery[Company query] --> nameResolver[CompanyNameResolver] nameResolver --> firecrawl[FirecrawlResearch] firecrawl -->|success| enrichment[FirecrawlEnricher] firecrawl -->|fails or low confidence| bing[BingSearchClient] bing --> enrichment enrichment --> tracer[ExtractionWorkflowTracer] tracer --> output[Enriched company profile]``` That's the architec