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As someone who was affected by this, I opted to go ahead and try and get my money's worth (although I have another service doing this in parallel). Also they were supposed to file an S Corp election for me, so hopefully I'll be able to find out the latest status of that. This whole thing is such a mess.

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A bit of research yields this guy as this owner of employer.com: https://x.com/JesseTinsley

At the end of his bio:

> Acquiring companies DM me

When was your S corp election supposed to be effective for? Are you registered with the state as a corp or an LLC? In the meantime, behave as if you ARE an S-corp (payroll, tax filings, etc.). That allows you to get late election relief if you find they messed up.

did it immediately let you proceed to your existing data

Yes. I'm able to log into the platform. You need to navigate to https://app.bench.co. I actually don't remember if they provided that URL, or if I just typed it into my browser out of habit. It may work for everyone who was on the platform.

It's never that smooth.

In fact 2M requests arrived on December 23rd from Claude alone for a single site.

Average 25qps is definitely an issue, these are all long tail dynamic pages.

Curious what your robots.txt looked like, if you have a link?

have you found anyway to export this year's data? I've logged in but now I'm worried that somehow opts out of getting the export data

Same. The situation is clear as mud.

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