Vay builds and operates data systems for sources that don’t otherwise expose them: websites, government portals, booking systems, public records, PDFs, and maps.
We monitor those sources, normalize what we find, and deliver the data through APIs, streaming feeds, and exports.
We have been building this collection infrastructure for over six years.
Useful datasets are usually fragmented across dozens of disconnected systems, each with its own format, quirks, and failure modes.
Most of the work is keeping the data correct across all of those systems as sources change, schemas drift, pages break, portals slow down, layouts move, records conflict, and edge cases show up in production.
Most of what we maintain sits underneath that: monitoring, retries, normalization, QA, change detection, source-specific logic, and the ongoing patches that keep it running.
Scrapers for websites, government portals, booking systems, PDFs, maps, and public records, tuned to detect changes as they happen.
We are comfortable with sources that are fragmented, rate-limited, inconsistent, or not designed to be queried directly.
Streaming and polled pipelines with change detection, monitoring, QA, and stable schemas.
Webhooks where the source allows them, tight polling where it doesn’t.
A single large-scale scrape of a fragmented source, delivered as a cleaned dataset.
Useful when a snapshot is enough and no ongoing feed is needed.
Low-latency endpoints and exports for datasets used in production products.
We do not usually build marketing websites, generic apps, or one-off internal tools.
Most of our work is data infrastructure: collection systems, feeds, monitored datasets, and APIs.
Where it makes sense, we provide licensed access to datasets and infrastructure maintained by Vay.
Vay is the company behind Campflare, a campground availability and mapping platform that has sent more than 9.5 million alerts.
Campflare monitors fragmented campground, campsite, permit, public-land, and map sources across the country and pushes alerts as availability changes.
Vay is usually a good fit when the data is hard to get: scattered across dozens of sources, locked behind portals, PDFs, or booking flows, only published on websites that weren’t built to be queried, and changing often enough that a one-time export goes stale fast.
Reach out to contact@vay.co.