diff --git a/app/db.py b/app/db.py
index 210054b..486ba75 100644
--- a/app/db.py
+++ b/app/db.py
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS enriched_domains (
     ai_contact_channel TEXT,
     ai_contact_value TEXT,
     ai_assessed_at TEXT,
-    site_analysis TEXT
+    site_analysis TEXT,
+    prescreen_status TEXT,
+    niche TEXT,
+    site_type TEXT,
+    prescreen_at TEXT
 );
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS job_queue (
     id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
@@ -76,6 +80,10 @@ _MIGRATIONS = [
     "ALTER TABLE enriched_domains ADD COLUMN site_analysis TEXT",
     "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ai_queue (domain TEXT PRIMARY KEY, status TEXT DEFAULT 'pending', created_at TEXT DEFAULT (datetime('now')), completed_at TEXT, error TEXT)",
     "ALTER TABLE ai_queue ADD COLUMN language TEXT DEFAULT 'ES'",
+    "ALTER TABLE enriched_domains ADD COLUMN prescreen_status TEXT",
+    "ALTER TABLE enriched_domains ADD COLUMN niche TEXT",
+    "ALTER TABLE enriched_domains ADD COLUMN site_type TEXT",
+    "ALTER TABLE enriched_domains ADD COLUMN prescreen_at TEXT",
 ]
 
 # Index build state
@@ -418,6 +426,35 @@ async def save_ai_assessment(domain: str, assessment: dict, site_analysis: dict
         await db.commit()
 
 
+async def save_prescreen_results(results: list[dict]):
+    """Upsert prescreen HTTP results and/or DeepSeek niche/type classifications."""
+    async with aiosqlite.connect(SQLITE_PATH) as db:
+        for r in results:
+            domain = r.get("domain")
+            if not domain:
+                continue
+            niche     = r.get("niche")
+            site_type = r.get("type")   # DeepSeek returns "type" key
+            if niche or site_type:
+                # Classification-only update (domain row must already exist)
+                await db.execute(
+                    "UPDATE enriched_domains SET niche=?, site_type=? WHERE domain=?",
+                    (niche, site_type, domain),
+                )
+            else:
+                # Prescreen status upsert — create row if it doesn't exist yet
+                await db.execute(
+                    """INSERT INTO enriched_domains (domain, prescreen_status, prescreen_at, page_title)
+                       VALUES (?, ?, datetime('now'), ?)
+                       ON CONFLICT(domain) DO UPDATE SET
+                         prescreen_status = excluded.prescreen_status,
+                         prescreen_at     = excluded.prescreen_at,
+                         page_title       = COALESCE(page_title, excluded.page_title)""",
+                    (domain, r.get("prescreen_status"), r.get("title")),
+                )
+        await db.commit()
+
+
 async def queue_domains(domains: list[str]):
     async with aiosqlite.connect(SQLITE_PATH) as db:
         await db.executemany(
diff --git a/app/main.py b/app/main.py
index 0c82d1d..1bda565 100644
--- a/app/main.py
+++ b/app/main.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from app.db import (
     DATA_DIR, PARQUET_PATH, SQLITE_PATH,
     init_db, get_stats, get_domains, get_enriched,
     queue_domains, get_queue_status, build_duckdb_index, index_status,
-    queue_ai, get_ai_queue_status, save_ai_assessment,
+    queue_ai, get_ai_queue_status, save_ai_assessment, save_prescreen_results,
 )
 from app.enricher import start_worker, pause_worker, resume_worker, is_running, ensure_workers_alive
 from app.scorer import run_scoring
@@ -171,6 +171,56 @@ async def enriched(
 
 # ── AI assessment endpoints ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+@app.post("/api/prescreen/batch")
+async def prescreen_batch(body: dict):
+    """
+    Phase 1 — HTTP check every domain (no AI).  Marks live/dead/parked/redirect.
+    Phase 2 — Single DeepSeek call for all live domains → niche + type.
+    Max 200 domains per call.
+    """
+    domains = body.get("domains", [])
+    if not domains:
+        return JSONResponse({"error": "no domains provided"}, status_code=400)
+    if len(domains) > 200:
+        return JSONResponse({"error": "max 200 domains per batch"}, status_code=400)
+
+    from app.prescreener import prescreen_domains, classify_with_deepseek, DEEPSEEK_BATCH_SIZE
+
+    # Phase 1: HTTP checks (concurrent, no AI)
+    results = await prescreen_domains(domains)
+    await save_prescreen_results(results)
+
+    counts: dict = {}
+    for r in results:
+        s = r.get("prescreen_status", "dead")
+        counts[s] = counts.get(s, 0) + 1
+
+    # Phase 2: DeepSeek classification for live sites only
+    live = [r for r in results if r.get("prescreen_status") == "live"]
+    classified = 0
+    if live:
+        batches = [live[i:i + DEEPSEEK_BATCH_SIZE] for i in range(0, len(live), DEEPSEEK_BATCH_SIZE)]
+        batch_cls = await asyncio.gather(
+            *[classify_with_deepseek(b) for b in batches], return_exceptions=True
+        )
+        all_cls: list = []
+        for bc in batch_cls:
+            if isinstance(bc, list):
+                all_cls.extend(bc)
+        if all_cls:
+            await save_prescreen_results(all_cls)
+            classified = len(all_cls)
+
+    return {
+        "total":      len(domains),
+        "live":       counts.get("live",     0),
+        "parked":     counts.get("parked",   0),
+        "redirect":   counts.get("redirect", 0),
+        "dead":       counts.get("dead",     0),
+        "classified": classified,
+    }
+
+
 @app.post("/api/ai/assess/batch")
 async def ai_assess_batch(body: dict):
     domains_list = body.get("domains", [])
diff --git a/app/prescreener.py b/app/prescreener.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bd038d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/prescreener.py
@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+"""Fast HTTP pre-screening + batch DeepSeek niche/type classification.
+
+Phase 1 — pure HTTP (no AI):
+  Check each domain with a real browser UA, follow redirects, detect
+  parked/dead/redirect sites.  No AI credits spent.
+
+Phase 2 — single DeepSeek call:
+  Bundle all live-site titles + snippets into ONE prompt and get back
+  niche + type for every domain.  Far cheaper than one call per domain.
+"""
+import asyncio
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+import re
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+import httpx
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+REPLICATE_TOKEN      = os.getenv("REPLICATE_API_TOKEN", "r8_7I7Feai78f9PzMOs20y5GVFKiLkgUWP463vZO")
+DEEPSEEK_MODEL       = os.getenv("DEEPSEEK_MODEL",
+                        "https://api.replicate.com/v1/models/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1/predictions")
+PRESCREEN_CONCURRENCY = int(os.getenv("PRESCREEN_CONCURRENCY", "30"))
+DEEPSEEK_BATCH_SIZE   = int(os.getenv("DEEPSEEK_BATCH_SIZE", "80"))
+
+# ── Parking / parked detection ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+PARKING_BODY_SIGNALS = [
+    "domain is parked", "this domain is for sale", "buy this domain",
+    "domain parking", "parked domain", "hugedomains.com", "sedo.com",
+    "parkingcrew.com", "bodis.com", "dan.com", "afternic.com",
+    "sedoparking.com", "undeveloped.com", "epik.com/domain",
+    "this web page is parked", "domain has expired",
+]
+PARKING_TITLE_SIGNALS = [
+    "domain parked", "parked domain", "domain for sale",
+    "buy this domain", "domain expired",
+]
+PARKING_REDIRECT_HOSTS = {
+    "sedo.com", "hugedomains.com", "dan.com", "afternic.com",
+    "parkingcrew.com", "bodis.com", "undeveloped.com", "epik.com",
+    "uniregistry.com", "sedoparking.com",
+}
+
+_UA = (
+    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
+    "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+    "Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
+)
+_HEADERS = {
+    "User-Agent": _UA,
+    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
+    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9,es;q=0.8",
+}
+
+
+def _same_domain(original: str, final_url: str) -> bool:
+    """True if final URL is on the same root domain (handles http→https, www)."""
+    orig  = original.lower().lstrip("www.").split(":")[0]
+    final = urlparse(final_url).netloc.lower().lstrip("www.")
+    return orig == final or final.endswith("." + orig) or orig.endswith("." + final)
+
+
+async def _check_one(domain: str) -> dict:
+    result = {
+        "domain": domain,
+        "prescreen_status": "dead",
+        "redirect_to": None,
+        "title": None,
+        "snippet": None,
+    }
+    try:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(
+            timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=6, read=9, write=5, pool=10),
+            follow_redirects=True,
+            headers=_HEADERS,
+            verify=False,
+            max_redirects=5,
+        ) as client:
+            resp = await client.get(f"http://{domain}")
+
+        final_url  = str(resp.url)
+        final_host = urlparse(final_url).netloc.lower().lstrip("www.")
+
+        # Redirected to a different root domain?
+        if not _same_domain(domain, final_url):
+            for ph in PARKING_REDIRECT_HOSTS:
+                if ph in final_host:
+                    result.update(prescreen_status="parked", redirect_to=final_url)
+                    return result
+            result.update(prescreen_status="redirect", redirect_to=final_url)
+            return result
+
+        if resp.status_code not in (200, 203):
+            return result  # dead
+
+        html = resp.text[:80_000]
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
+
+        title_tag = soup.find("title")
+        title = title_tag.get_text(strip=True)[:200] if title_tag else ""
+        result["title"] = title
+
+        body_lc  = html.lower()
+        title_lc = title.lower()
+
+        for sig in PARKING_BODY_SIGNALS:
+            if sig in body_lc:
+                result["prescreen_status"] = "parked"
+                return result
+        for sig in PARKING_TITLE_SIGNALS:
+            if sig in title_lc:
+                result["prescreen_status"] = "parked"
+                return result
+
+        for tag in soup(["script", "style", "nav", "footer", "header"]):
+            tag.decompose()
+        snippet = " ".join(soup.get_text(" ", strip=True).split())[:600]
+        result.update(prescreen_status="live", snippet=snippet)
+        return result
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.debug("Prescreen %s: %s", domain, e)
+        return result
+
+
+async def prescreen_domains(domains: list[str]) -> list[dict]:
+    """HTTP-check all domains concurrently. Returns one result dict per domain."""
+    sem = asyncio.Semaphore(PRESCREEN_CONCURRENCY)
+
+    async def _guard(d):
+        async with sem:
+            return await _check_one(d)
+
+    raw = await asyncio.gather(*[_guard(d) for d in domains], return_exceptions=True)
+    return [
+        r if not isinstance(r, Exception)
+        else {"domain": d, "prescreen_status": "dead",
+              "redirect_to": None, "title": None, "snippet": None}
+        for d, r in zip(domains, raw)
+    ]
+
+
+# ── DeepSeek batch classification ────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+_NICHES = (
+    "automotive, beauty_cosmetics, travel_tourism, hospitality, "
+    "restaurant_food, legal, medical_health, real_estate, technology, "
+    "fashion_retail, finance, education, construction, sports, "
+    "entertainment, agriculture, industrial, consulting, other"
+)
+_TYPES = (
+    "corporate, ecommerce, blog, newspaper, landing_page, "
+    "portfolio, directory, forum, informational, other"
+)
+
+
+def _build_classify_prompt(items: list[dict]) -> str:
+    lines = []
+    for i, d in enumerate(items, 1):
+        t = (d.get("title") or "").replace('"', "'")[:100]
+        s = (d.get("snippet") or "").replace('"', "'")[:300]
+        lines.append(f'{i}. domain="{d["domain"]}" title="{t}" text="{s}"')
+    return (
+        "Classify each website below.\n"
+        "Return ONLY a JSON array — no markdown, no explanation, nothing else.\n\n"
+        f"niche options (pick one closest): {_NICHES}\n"
+        f"type options (pick one closest): {_TYPES}\n\n"
+        'Output format: [{"domain":"x.com","niche":"automotive","type":"corporate"}, ...]\n\n'
+        "Websites:\n" + "\n".join(lines)
+    )
+
+
+def _parse_classify_output(raw: str) -> list[dict]:
+    text = re.sub(r"```(?:json)?", "", raw).strip().rstrip("`").strip()
+    # Strip DeepSeek <think>…</think> reasoning block if present
+    text = re.sub(r"<think>[\s\S]*?</think>", "", text).strip()
+    m = re.search(r"\[[\s\S]+\]", text)
+    if m:
+        try:
+            return json.loads(m.group(0))
+        except json.JSONDecodeError:
+            pass
+    logger.warning("DeepSeek classification parse failed: %s", raw[:300])
+    return []
+
+
+async def classify_with_deepseek(live_items: list[dict]) -> list[dict]:
+    """Single DeepSeek call → list of {domain, niche, type}."""
+    if not live_items:
+        return []
+    payload = {
+        "input": {
+            "prompt": _build_classify_prompt(live_items),
+            "max_tokens": min(4096, len(live_items) * 80 + 600),
+            "temperature": 0.1,
+        }
+    }
+    try:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=120) as client:
+            resp = await client.post(
+                DEEPSEEK_MODEL,
+                headers={
+                    "Authorization": f"Bearer {REPLICATE_TOKEN}",
+                    "Content-Type": "application/json",
+                    "Prefer": "wait",
+                },
+                json=payload,
+            )
+            resp.raise_for_status()
+            data = resp.json()
+
+        output = data.get("output", "")
+        if isinstance(output, list):
+            output = "".join(output)
+
+        return _parse_classify_output(output)
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error("DeepSeek classification error: %s", e)
+        return []
diff --git a/app/static/index.html b/app/static/index.html
index 494eab2..7b5e212 100644
--- a/app/static/index.html
+++ b/app/static/index.html
@@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ input[type=range]{accent-color:var(--accent);width:100px;cursor:pointer}
 .bg{background:var(--surface2);color:var(--text);border:1px solid var(--border)}
 .bkd{background:#f59e0b22;color:var(--kd);border:1px solid #f59e0b44}
 .bai{background:#a855f722;color:#c084fc;border:1px solid #a855f744}
+.bps{background:#0f9d5822;color:#34d399;border:1px solid #0f9d5844}
 .sm{padding:4px 9px;font-size:11px}
+/* Niche / type pills */
+.pni{background:#0ea5e918;color:#38bdf8;border:1px solid #0ea5e933}
+.pty{background:#8b5cf618;color:#a78bfa;border:1px solid #8b5cf633}
+/* Prescreen status dot */
+.ps-live{color:#34d399} .ps-dead{color:#f87171} .ps-parked{color:#fbbf24} .ps-redirect{color:#94a3b8}
 
 /* Table */
 .tw{overflow-x:auto;border-radius:var(--r);border:1px solid var(--border)}
@@ -345,6 +351,10 @@ tr:hover td{background:rgba(255,255,255,.025)}
       <button class="btn bs" @click="enqueueSelected()" :disabled="selected.length===0">
         + Enrich (<span x-text="selected.length"></span>)
       </button>
+      <button class="btn bps" @click="prescreenSelected()" :disabled="selected.length===0||prescreening">
+        <span x-show="!prescreening">🔍 Pre-screen (<span x-text="selected.length"></span>)</span>
+        <span x-show="prescreening">⏳ Screening…</span>
+      </button>
       <select x-model="aiLang" style="padding:4px 8px;border-radius:6px;border:1px solid var(--border);background:var(--card);color:var(--text);font-size:13px;cursor:pointer" title="Pitch language">
         <option value="ES">🇪🇸 ES</option>
         <option value="EN">🇬🇧 EN</option>
@@ -363,6 +373,7 @@ tr:hover td{background:rgba(255,255,255,.025)}
         <thead>
           <tr>
             <th></th><th>Domain</th><th>Score</th><th>KD</th><th>AI</th>
+            <th>Niche</th><th>Type</th>
             <th>Contact</th><th>CMS</th><th>SSL days</th>
             <th>Country</th><th>Live</th>
           </tr>
@@ -396,6 +407,16 @@ tr:hover td{background:rgba(255,255,255,.025)}
                   x-text="row.ai_lead_quality"></span>
                 <span x-show="!row.ai_lead_quality" class="pill ai-none" style="cursor:pointer" @click="openModal(row)" title="Click to assess">—</span>
               </td>
+              <!-- Niche -->
+              <td>
+                <span x-show="row.niche" class="pill pni" x-text="row.niche"></span>
+                <span x-show="!row.niche" :class="prescreenStatusIcon(row.prescreen_status)" :title="row.prescreen_status||''" x-text="prescreenStatusIcon(row.prescreen_status)?'●':'—'"></span>
+              </td>
+              <!-- Type -->
+              <td>
+                <span x-show="row.site_type" class="pill pty" x-text="row.site_type"></span>
+                <span x-show="!row.site_type" style="color:var(--border)">—</span>
+              </td>
               <!-- Contact info -->
               <td>
                 <div class="contact-chips" x-data="{c: parseContacts(row.contact_info)}">
@@ -567,16 +588,16 @@ tr:hover td{background:rgba(255,255,255,.025)}
       <table>
         <thead>
           <tr>
-            <th>Quality</th><th>Domain</th><th>Score</th>
+            <th>Quality</th><th>Domain</th><th>Score</th><th>Niche</th><th>Type</th>
             <th>Best Contact</th><th>All Contacts</th><th>Pitch</th><th></th>
           </tr>
         </thead>
         <tbody>
           <template x-if="leadsLoading">
-            <tr><td colspan="7" style="text-align:center;padding:24px;color:var(--muted)">Loading…</td></tr>
+            <tr><td colspan="9" style="text-align:center;padding:24px;color:var(--muted)">Loading…</td></tr>
           </template>
           <template x-if="!leadsLoading && leadsData.length===0">
-            <tr><td colspan="7" style="text-align:center;padding:24px;color:var(--muted)">No assessed leads yet — run 🤖 AI Assess on some domains in Browse</td></tr>
+            <tr><td colspan="9" style="text-align:center;padding:24px;color:var(--muted)">No assessed leads yet — run 🤖 AI Assess on some domains in Browse</td></tr>
           </template>
           <template x-for="row in leadsData" :key="row.domain">
             <tr>
@@ -587,6 +608,8 @@ tr:hover td{background:rgba(255,255,255,.025)}
               </td>
               <td><a :href="'http://'+row.domain" target="_blank" rel="noopener" x-text="row.domain"></a></td>
               <td><span class="score" :style="scoreBg(row.score)" x-text="row.score??'—'"></span></td>
+              <td><span x-show="row.niche" class="pill pni" x-text="row.niche"></span><span x-show="!row.niche" style="color:var(--border)">—</span></td>
+              <td><span x-show="row.site_type" class="pill pty" x-text="row.site_type"></span><span x-show="!row.site_type" style="color:var(--border)">—</span></td>
               <td style="max-width:150px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;font-size:12px">
                 <span :title="row.ai_contact_value" x-text="row.ai_contact_value||'—'"></span>
               </td>
@@ -649,6 +672,7 @@ function app() {
     qst: {}, customDomains: '',
     leadsQ: {quality:'', country:'', limit:'50'},
     leadsData: [], leadsTotal: 0, leadsPage: 1, leadsLoading: false,
+    prescreening: false,
     pipeline: {hot:{count:0,samples:[]},warm:{count:0,samples:[]},cold:{count:0,samples:[]}},
     toast: {show:false,msg:'',type:'success'},
     modal: {open:false, domain:'', ai:{}, sa:null},
@@ -746,6 +770,39 @@ function app() {
       this.notify(`Queued ${d2.queued} Kit Digital domains for AI assessment [${this.aiLang}]`,'info');
     },
 
+    async prescreenSelected() {
+      if(!this.selected.length || this.prescreening) return;
+      this.prescreening = true;
+      this.notify(`Pre-screening ${this.selected.length} domains… (may take ~30s)`, 'info');
+      try {
+        const r = await fetch('/api/prescreen/batch', {
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: {'Content-Type':'application/json'},
+          body: JSON.stringify({domains: this.selected})
+        });
+        const d = await r.json();
+        if(r.ok) {
+          this.notify(
+            `✅ ${d.live} live · 🅿 ${d.parked} parked · ↗ ${d.redirect} redirect · ☠ ${d.dead} dead · 🏷 ${d.classified} classified`,
+            'success'
+          );
+          await this._fetch(); // refresh to show niche/type columns
+        } else {
+          this.notify('Error: ' + (d.error||'unknown'), 'error');
+        }
+      } catch(e) { this.notify('Pre-screen failed: '+e.message, 'error'); }
+      this.prescreening = false;
+      this.selected = [];
+    },
+
+    prescreenStatusIcon(status) {
+      if(status==='live')     return 'ps-live';
+      if(status==='dead')     return 'ps-dead';
+      if(status==='parked')   return 'ps-parked';
+      if(status==='redirect') return 'ps-redirect';
+      return '';
+    },
+
     async loadLeads(reset=false) {
       if(reset) this.leadsPage = 1;
       this.leadsLoading = true;