Asteroid: AI Browser Agents for Back Office Automation

This podcast introduces Asteroid, a new platform designed to help both technical and non-technical users quickly and efficiently build AI browser agents. These agents automate repetitive back-office browser tasks, aiming to replace the need for single, all-encompassing agents with numerous specialized, reliable ones. The platform features an intuitive, no-code interface for creating and refining these agents, offering features such as live browser views and AI chat for enhanced control. Use cases range from insurance quoting and medical appointment data entry to invoice retrieval and voice agent integration, with early users reporting significant success and speed in automating complex tasks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an Asteroid?

Asteroid is a platform that allows users to build highly custom and complex AI browser agents. It’s designed to automate back-office browser tasks, aiming to make automation accessible and reliable for both non-technical users and engineers.

What kind of tasks can Asteroid’s AI browser agents automate?

Asteroid’s agents are designed to automate a wide range of repetitive and critical back-office browser tasks. Real-world use cases include auto-filling complex forms for insurance quoting, automating patient data entry in healthcare systems, retrieving invoices from supplier portals, collecting data from dashboards for reporting to Google Sheets, completing grant applications, and integrating voice-based agents with legacy back-office systems.

What makes Asteroid different from other browser agent solutions?

Unlike “do-everything” agents that might be prone to breaking, Asteroid emphasizes building hundreds of specialized, robust agents, each tailored to a specific task. The platform believes that domain experts, not just engineers, should be able to easily build reliable and customizable agents, enabling them to automate their specific workflows quickly and efficiently without extensive coding knowledge.

How easy is it to build an agent with Asteroid, and what tools does it offer?

Creating browser agents with Asteroid is designed to be simple and intuitive. The platform combines natural language prompts, scripts, and specialized tools into clear, visual workflows. Users can instantly run and interact with their agents, refine them via chat, and iterate quickly, all without requiring coding expertise. Key capabilities include a browser live-view, session recordings, real-time AI chat for agent control, smart DOM-based AI models, and management of authenticated browsers, credentials, proxies, and captcha solvers.

What are some key technical capabilities and compliance features of Asteroid?

Asteroid offers SDKs, APIs, and Webhooks for integration. For data security and privacy, it is HIPAA compliant and is currently undergoing SOC II certification, indicating its suitability for sensitive data environments, particularly in healthcare.

What is the “Browser Agent AGI Escape Room” special launch event?

To celebrate its Product Hunt launch, Asteroid introduced the “Browser Agent AGI Escape Room.” This is a challenge where users build and refine a browser agent to “escape” a website designed to trap agents. Participants sign up, run an initial failing agent, then use smarter prompts, nodes, and faster AI models to improve the agent and escape. The challenge has a leaderboard, with the top 10 fastest agents winning an exclusive Asteroid hoodie.

Who is Asteroid built for?

Asteroid is built for a broad range of users, including startups and enterprises needing to automate their back offices, non-technical domain experts (like an insurance broker or healthcare administrator) who want to build their own automation, and developers looking to embed powerful browser automation within their products.

How has Asteroid been received by early users?

Early users have reported positive experiences. For example, one user found it “incredible how fast it did the job” even for complicated tasks, and felt the “AGI.” Another user in healthcare automation was “blown away” by its intuitive interface and robust infrastructure, noting that they could go from idea to automation in minutes and test hundreds of tasks. The platform’s responsiveness to user feedback, like implementing features based on extensive testing, has also been highlighted.

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