Bio
Founder and CEO of Apify, a popular marketplace of web data tools for AI. He has a lifelong passion for software engineering, earning him an MSc and PhD in computer science, and eventually leading him to found Apify. Jan is known in San Francisco and Prague tech circles, he talks about software, startups, and AI, and regularly hosts events.
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Jan Curn, co-founder and CEO of Apify and creator of the open-source Crawlee and mcpc tools, gives a builder's-eye view of how AI agents get reliable, live web data via MCP — from production scraping internals (anti-bot, JS rendering, RAG pipelines) to a forward-looking thesis on the 'agentic economy' (B2A/A2A business models) emerging on top of MCP.
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Recent talks (3)
The rise of the agentic economy on the shoulders of MCPDawn of the agentic economy: Apify Meetup @ Intercom SF · Jul 2025How to scrape modern websites to feed AI agentsWeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 · Aug 2025
Apify, Jan Curn, Founder & CEO @AGI Builders Meetup SFAGI Builders Meetup SF · Nov 2025GitHub
@jancurn- jancurn/actor-find-broken-links★ 8An Apify actor that finds and reports broken links on a website, including URL fragments.
- jancurn/actor-analyze-domains★ 6An Apify actor that crawls and analyzes web pages from a list of domains (HTTPS check, HTML, screenshots, headers, SSL info, contacts).
- apify/crawleeorg★ 24,000Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers in JavaScript/TypeScript for AI, LLMs, and RAG.
- apify/mcpcorg★ 692A universal CLI client for MCP with persistent sessions, stdio/HTTP, OAuth 2.1, and JSON output; created and announced by Jan Curn.
Recent writing (2)
- Announcing MCP connectors · blog · Jun 2026
- Introducing mcpc: A universal CLI client for MCP · blog · Jan 2026