diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts
index 21c9745c..d2c079bf 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
 } from "./types";
 import {
   addCrawlJobs,
+  finishCrawlKickoff,
   getCrawl,
   lockURLs,
   saveCrawl,
@@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ export async function batchScrapeController(
     };
   });
 
+  await finishCrawlKickoff(id);
+
   logger.debug("Locking URLs...");
   await lockURLs(
     id,