What if AI agents could use almost any website without spending half their time clicking buttons and waiting for pages to load?
And what if that made them dramatically faster and cheaper?
Meet Pomerado, a new Y Combinator startup that's taking a completely different approach to browser automation.
And the results are pretty ridiculous.
Here's the problem.
Most AI agents use websites the same way humans do.
They open a browser, find buttons, click around, read the screen, and repeat.
It works. But it's slow, expensive, and surprisingly fragile.
Pomerado does something smarter.
Instead of forcing your AI agent to navigate the same interface every time, it explores the website once and builds a reusable API or MCP integration.
Then your agent can call that integration directly.
No endless screenshots. No repeated visual navigation. No unnecessary reasoning about where to click next.
And when the website changes?
Pomerado's managed platform can detect broken integrations and automatically repair them.
Now for the really interesting part.
In a demonstration involving onboarding two employees across several business systems:
Codex Computer Use: 21 minutes 22 seconds, $41.01
Pomerado: 8 minutes 16 seconds, $0.03
That's approximately 2.6× faster and 1,367× cheaper in this particular test.
Yes. Three cents instead of forty-one dollars.
These are company-reported results, not independent benchmarks, but they're certainly worth investigating.
What else can Pomerado do?
Turn websites without public APIs into reusable tools
Connect to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible agents
Work with legacy CRMs, ERPs, internal dashboards, and business portals
Handle authenticated workflows, including two-factor authentication
Generate integrations from natural-language instructions
Automatically repair broken integrations through its managed cloud service
And here's the best part.
The core technology is open source under the MIT license.
You can build and run integrations locally, although creating them requires an OpenAI API key. The hosted service adds authentication management, hosting, and automatic maintenance.
This could be a significant development for agentic automation.
Because the future of AI agents might not involve making them better at clicking buttons.
It might involve teaching them to stop clicking buttons altogether.
And honestly, that's a much more interesting direction.
Pomerado on GitHub:
https://github.com/Pomerado/pomerado
Official website:
https://pomerado.ai/
Pomerado on Y Combinator:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pomerado
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