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Request for startups · Computer-use agents

Beyond the human API.

We spent decades putting business processes into software. But what connects those systems is still a person with twenty browser tabs open, copying and pasting. We’re looking for the teams building computer-use agents that actually finish the job.

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Built for the software companies already run on

  • ERP systems
  • CRMs
  • Supplier portals
  • Spreadsheets
  • Legacy desktop apps
  • Health records
  • Banking portals
  • Claims systems
  • Ticketing
  • HR & payroll
  • Government portals
  • Email & inboxes
  • Virtual desktops
  • Carrier portals

01 — The problem

We spent decades putting business processes into software. But what connects those systems is still a person with twenty browser tabs open, copying and pasting.

A human API.

Swivel-chair work

Re-keying the same record from one system into another, because the two were never built to talk to each other.

Glue that doesn’t scale

Every new tool adds another login, another tab, another handoff. Headcount quietly becomes the integration layer.

Work nobody owns

It lives between systems, so it never shows up on a roadmap — and it never gets automated.

02 — Our request for startups

Computer-use agents that actually finish the job.

Not copilots that suggest. Not demos that work once. Agents that companies can trust to do real work at scale — inside the software they already use.

01

Finish the job

End-to-end completion, not a handoff halfway through. Agents that check their own work, recover when something unexpected happens, and know when to ask.

02

Trusted at scale

Scoped permissions, full audit trails, and predictable behavior — so a company can hand over thousands of runs a day, not one supervised demo.

03

In the software you already use

Browsers, desktop apps, legacy portals, the system with no API. Meet work where it lives instead of asking companies to rip and replace.

03 — The bar

A demo works once. A job gets done every time.

Capability is no longer the hard part. Completion, trust, and fit with the way companies actually work — that’s where the opportunity is.

A demo agentAn agent that finishes the job
Handles the happy pathHandles the long tail — pop-ups, timeouts, the odd scanned PDF
Stops and hands back a half-finished taskRecovers, retries, and escalates with full context
A black boxEvery action logged, explainable, and replayable
Lives in a sandboxWorks in production systems, with real permissions
Impressive onceReliable ten thousand times a day

04 — Who we want to meet

If you’re building this, we want to hear from you.

You don’t need a finished product. You need a sharp view of the work, and an obsession with getting it done right.

You’ve been the human API

You’ve lived the twenty-tab workflow, and you know exactly where it breaks.

You obsess over reliability

You care more about the ten-thousandth run than the first demo.

You have a wedge

One painful, high-volume workflow you can own end to end — and expand from there.

You measure finished work

Your metric is jobs completed and verified — not tokens generated or clicks made.

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05 — From the blog

Notes on agents that do real work.

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