Two things slowed people down at the start of 2025: you could not choose which AI model ran your enrichments, and December's queue backlog made large runs unpredictable. January and February fixed both.

Bring your own AI model, and your own key

AI enrichments now let you pick the model instead of taking ours. OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic are available, and you can run them on your own API key, so AI spend sits on the account you already pay for rather than drawing down credits. Pre-made prompt templates cover the common jobs, so you are not starting from a blank box.

Up to 6x faster enrichments

November and December exposed real infrastructure limits. Enrichments queued, some stalled, and large runs took longer than they should have. We rebuilt the queue layer, and enrichments now run up to six times faster with far fewer stuck jobs.

The JSON Expander got the same treatment and runs up to 12 times faster when extracting values into new columns. It also stopped running on empty rows, which was quietly wasting time on every large table.

Quality of life across the table

A long list of small fixes landed alongside the big ones:

• Long text inputs wrap instead of running off the edge of the field

• Shared and public tables got a cleaner layout for sending work to clients

• Toasts tell you what is happening when you cancel a run, run all rows or add an enrichment

• JSON cells have a copy action for a single value, and exported columns name themselves

Finding leads, and starting from one

The find-leads modal now separates intent sources from regular search connectors, so it is clearer which one you want before you spend anything. The new-project screen was rebuilt around the same idea, and it now opens onto pre-built datasets: curated lists you can pull into a table instead of assembling them yourself.

A documentation chatbot also went into beta. It searches our docs and the API library to answer setup questions without leaving the app.

About Databar

Databar replaces your go-to-market data stack with one platform. Search companies, people, and jobs, monitor the web for signals, and enrich it all with 160+ data sources and waterfalls. Wire everything into reusable automations that run on a schedule, on your tables and CRM data, or by an AI agent. App, API, MCP server, SDK, and CLI included on every plan.