Building an Autonomous Layer on Top of Firecrawl — Looking for Legal & Compliance Advice

I’m Harsh,

building Nexus AI—an autonomous execution layer for AI agents.

Instead of relying on a single retrieval method, Nexus intelligently routes requests:
Tier 1: Firecrawl for fast markdown extraction.
Tier 2: Dynamic rendering when JavaScript is required.
Tier 3: Fallback provider for failed retrievals.

The goal is to reduce the orchestration code developers write by automatically selecting the right retrieval strategy and returning structured data through a single API.

I’d love some advice from builders using Firecrawl in production: What legal/compliance guardrails should products like this implement? Should I maintain a domain allowlist/blocklist? Should my ToS explicitly state users are responsible for complying with website terms and applicable laws? Any best practices for handling sites that reject automated access?

I’m trying to build Nexus responsibly from day one, so I’d really appreciate your guidance. Nexus AI: https://nexus-ai-production-4eb6.up.railway.app/
GitHub: GitHub - Harshpatil77/Nexus-AI · GitHub

Thanks!

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