diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
index 5aafa433..82a49db8 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ export async function crawlStatusController(req: Request, res: Response) {
     const { current, current_url, total, current_step, partialDocs } = await job.progress();
 
     let data = job.returnvalue;
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true") {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (useDbAuthentication) {
       const supabaseData = await supabaseGetJobById(req.params.jobId);
 
       if (supabaseData) {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts
index 3d7fccbb..935338bd 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ export async function crawlJobStatusPreviewController(req: Request, res: Respons
 
     const { current, current_url, total, current_step, partialDocs } = await job.progress();
     let data = job.returnvalue;
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true") {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (useDbAuthentication) {
       const supabaseData = await supabaseGetJobById(req.params.jobId);
 
       if (supabaseData) {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/logger.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/logger.ts
index 872dbf51..fb0468c2 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/lib/logger.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/logger.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ export class Logger {
       const color = Logger.colors[level];
       console[level.toLowerCase()](color, `[${new Date().toISOString()}]${level} - ${message}`);
 
-      // if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTH) {
+      // const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+      // if (useDbAuthentication) {
       // save to supabase? another place?
       // supabase.from('logs').insert({ level: level, message: message, timestamp: new Date().toISOString(), success: boolean });
       // }
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/scrape-events.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/scrape-events.ts
index 8d677279..02ef670b 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/lib/scrape-events.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/scrape-events.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ export class ScrapeEvents {
   static async insert(jobId: string, content: ScrapeEvent) {
     if (jobId === "TEST") return null;
     
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION) {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (useDbAuthentication) {
       try {
         const result = await supabase.from("scrape_events").insert({
           job_id: jobId,
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/withAuth.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/withAuth.ts
index 353c144b..1979907e 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/lib/withAuth.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/withAuth.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ export function withAuth<T extends AuthResponse, U extends any[]>(
   originalFunction: (...args: U) => Promise<T>
 ) {
   return async function (...args: U): Promise<T> {
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (!useDbAuthentication) {
       if (warningCount < 5) {
         Logger.warn("You're bypassing authentication");
         warningCount++;
diff --git a/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts b/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
index 76665aa2..3f3293b2 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ export async function runWebScraper({
 
 const saveJob = async (job: Job, result: any) => {
   try {
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true") {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (useDbAuthentication) {
       const { data, error } = await supabase_service
         .from("firecrawl_jobs")
         .update({ docs: result })
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/logging/crawl_log.ts b/apps/api/src/services/logging/crawl_log.ts
index 68008e02..f19b0297 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/logging/crawl_log.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/logging/crawl_log.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import { Logger } from "../../../src/lib/logger";
 import "dotenv/config";
 
 export async function logCrawl(job_id: string, team_id: string) {
-  if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true') {
+  const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+  if (useDbAuthentication) {
     try {
       const { data, error } = await supabase_service
       .from("bulljobs_teams")
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts b/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
index 93d0b311..2525917c 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import { Logger } from "../../lib/logger";
 
 export async function logJob(job: FirecrawlJob) {
   try {
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (!useDbAuthentication) {
       return;
     }
 
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/logging/scrape_log.ts b/apps/api/src/services/logging/scrape_log.ts
index 099e4a0b..30d8fd1e 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/logging/scrape_log.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/logging/scrape_log.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ export async function logScrape(
   scrapeLog: ScrapeLog,
   pageOptions?: PageOptions
 ) {
-  if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
+  const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+  if (!useDbAuthentication) {
     Logger.debug("Skipping logging scrape to Supabase");
     return;
   }
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/supabase.ts b/apps/api/src/services/supabase.ts
index 70ada12b..414d1925 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/supabase.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/supabase.ts
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ class SupabaseService {
   constructor() {
     const supabaseUrl = process.env.SUPABASE_URL;
     const supabaseServiceToken = process.env.SUPABASE_SERVICE_TOKEN;
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
     // Only initialize the Supabase client if both URL and Service Token are provided.
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
+    if (!useDbAuthentication) {
       // Warn the user that Authentication is disabled by setting the client to null
       Logger.warn(
         "Authentication is disabled. Supabase client will not be initialized."
diff --git a/apps/test-suite/utils/supabase.ts b/apps/test-suite/utils/supabase.ts
index abf7fd78..3e66a991 100644
--- a/apps/test-suite/utils/supabase.ts
+++ b/apps/test-suite/utils/supabase.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ class SupabaseService {
     const supabaseUrl = process.env.SUPABASE_URL;
     const supabaseServiceToken = process.env.SUPABASE_SERVICE_TOKEN;
     // Only initialize the Supabase client if both URL and Service Token are provided.
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
+    const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+    if (!useDbAuthentication) {
       // Warn the user that Authentication is disabled by setting the client to null
       console.warn(
         "Authentication is disabled. Supabase client will not be initialized."
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@ export const supabase_service: SupabaseClient = new Proxy(
   new SupabaseService(),
   {
     get: function (target, prop, receiver) {
-      if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
+      const useDbAuthentication = process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === 'true';
+      if (!useDbAuthentication) {
         console.debug(
           "Attempted to access Supabase client when it's not configured."
         );