Kafka and disaster recovery are crucial for building next-generation web agents that can extract data at scale in production use cases, especially with generative AI (GenAI) applications. Reworkd's mission is to make real-time data extraction seamless and efficient using agentic AI and the Confluent Data Streaming Platform. Web scraping traditionally requires manual effort, but leveraging agentic AI workflows with tools like OpenAI's GPT-4 can automate many steps. The Confluent platform delivers a real-time, fault-tolerant solution for handling high-throughput data streams, ensuring that data is processed and validated before reaching the end user. By using Kafka as the backbone behind Reworkd, the team can accelerate and streamline data extraction, allowing them to focus on more important work and experiment with new features quickly. The future of real-time AI relies on continuous experimentation, automation of repetitive manual processes, and access to trustworthy data, which Confluent's tools facilitate.