By Sagar Shankaran, Founder of CallSphere
Browser automation agents that can navigate any website are now available as consumer products from Convergence, MultiOn, and Induced AI, moving beyond developer tools to everyday users.
Key takeaways
The browser agent — an AI system that can navigate websites, fill out forms, click buttons, extract information, and complete multi-step web tasks on behalf of a user — has made the leap from developer tool to consumer product. In Q1 2026, three companies shipped browser agents that any non-technical user can operate through natural language instructions: Convergence with its Proxy agent, MultiOn with its consumer browser extension, and Induced AI with its enterprise-focused Autonomous Browser.
This transition represents one of the most significant user interface paradigm shifts since the smartphone. Instead of learning how to navigate each website's unique interface, users can simply describe what they want to accomplish in plain English, and the browser agent handles the rest — clicking through menus, filling out forms, handling authentication, and even dealing with CAPTCHAs and multi-factor authentication flows.
"We're watching the web browser evolve from a tool you operate to a tool that operates for you," said Div Garg, CEO of MultiOn. "The interface to the internet is becoming a conversation, not a series of clicks."
Convergence, founded by a team of former Google DeepMind researchers, launched its Proxy browser agent in January 2026. Proxy runs as a standalone application that controls a headless browser, executing tasks that the user describes in natural language.
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PLAN["Planner LLM"]
SCREEN["Screen capture<br/>every step"]
VLM["Vision LLM<br/>reads UI state"]
ACT{"Action type"}
CLICK["Click coordinate"]
TYPE["Type text"]
KEY["Keyboard shortcut"]
GUARD["Safety filter<br/>allow lists"]
OS[("OS sandbox<br/>ephemeral VM")]
DONE(["Goal verified"])
GOAL --> PLAN --> SCREEN --> VLM --> ACT
ACT --> CLICK --> GUARD
ACT --> TYPE --> GUARD
ACT --> KEY --> GUARD
GUARD --> OS --> SCREEN
OS --> DONE
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What distinguishes Proxy is its planning capability. Given a complex task like "Find the cheapest round-trip flight from San Francisco to Tokyo in April, book it with my United miles if possible, otherwise use my Chase Sapphire card," Proxy decomposes the task into sub-steps, determines which websites to visit, and executes the workflow end-to-end.
Proxy uses a multimodal model that simultaneously processes the visual layout of web pages (as screenshots) and the underlying DOM structure. This dual-input approach gives it robustness against websites that use unusual layouts, dynamic loading, or anti-automation measures.
Key capabilities include:
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Convergence raised $50 million in Series A funding in November 2025 and reports 200,000 active users as of March 2026, with the product priced at $29/month for consumers and $99/month for business users.
MultiOn takes a different distribution approach, shipping as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that augments the user's existing browser rather than replacing it. When the user wants the agent to take over, they activate it with a keyboard shortcut or voice command, describe the task, and watch as the extension controls the browser in real-time.
The extension model has advantages in user trust and adoption. Users can watch the agent navigate their actual browser, intervene if something looks wrong, and take back control at any point. This transparency addresses the "black box" concern that has slowed adoption of fully autonomous agent products.
MultiOn's consumer extension, launched in February 2026, has been downloaded 500,000 times. The company offers a free tier that allows 50 agent actions per month and a premium tier at $19/month for unlimited usage.
Popular consumer use cases include:
Induced AI, led by CEO Aryan Sharma, targets the enterprise market with autonomous browser agents designed for business workflows. Their product focuses on tasks like procurement, vendor management, compliance monitoring, and data entry across enterprise web applications that lack API access.
Many enterprise workflows still require human operators to manually interact with web-based applications — government portals, supplier websites, legacy enterprise systems — that don't offer APIs. Induced's browser agents handle these workflows autonomously, operating 24/7 and processing hundreds of tasks in parallel.
Induced's platform has been adopted by over 100 enterprise customers, including several Fortune 500 companies. Notable use cases include:
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Building a browser agent that works reliably across the open web is one of the hardest problems in applied AI. Unlike controlled environments where the AI interacts with well-defined APIs, web browsers present a constantly changing, visually complex, and often adversarial environment.
There are an estimated 200 million active websites, each with its own layout, navigation patterns, and interaction models. A browser agent must generalize across all of them without website-specific training. The approaches used by the leading companies combine visual understanding (treating the web page as an image) with DOM parsing (understanding the underlying HTML structure) to achieve this generalization.
Modern websites use JavaScript frameworks that dynamically load content, update the DOM, and trigger animations. A browser agent must wait for content to load, recognize when a page transition has occurred, and handle infinite scroll, lazy loading, and single-page application routing.
Many websites actively resist automation through CAPTCHAs, bot detection scripts, rate limiting, and behavioral analysis that flags non-human interaction patterns. Browser agents must navigate these defenses while operating within the website's terms of service — a significant technical and ethical challenge.
Browser agents have access to sensitive user data including login credentials, financial information, and personal details. The security architecture must ensure that this data is handled with the same rigor as a password manager or banking application. All three companies use end-to-end encryption for stored credentials and process browsing sessions locally rather than streaming them to cloud servers.
The browser agent market is projected to reach $8 billion by 2028, according to analyst estimates from Gartner. The technology has implications beyond convenience — it represents a fundamental shift in how humans interact with the web.
For website operators, browser agents create both opportunities and challenges. Websites that are agent-friendly — with clean, semantic HTML and logical navigation flows — will see increased traffic as agents direct users to the best options. Websites that rely on dark patterns, confusing navigation, or hidden fees may find that browser agents route users elsewhere.
For the accessibility community, browser agents represent a significant advancement. Users with visual impairments, motor disabilities, or cognitive challenges can now interact with any website through natural language, bypassing interface barriers that have persisted despite decades of accessibility advocacy.
The consumer browser agent is here. The question is not whether it will change how people use the internet but how quickly the adoption curve reaches mainstream usage.
Written by
Sagar Shankaran· Founder, CallSphere
LinkedInSagar Shankaran is the founder of CallSphere, where he builds production AI voice and chat agents deployed across healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and home services. He writes about agentic AI, LLM engineering, and shipping voice agents that handle real calls in production.
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