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Hey HN – Gregor & Magnus here again.

A few months ago, we launched Browser Use (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173378), which let LLMs perform tasks in the browser using natural language prompts. It was great for one-off tasks like booking flights or finding products—but we soon realized enterprises have somewhat different needs:

They typically have one workflow with dynamic variables (e.g., filling out a form and downloading a PDF) that they want to reliably run a million times without breaking. Pure LLM agents were slow, expensive, and unpredictable for these high-frequency tasks.

So we just started working on Workflow Use:

- You show the browser what to do (by manually recording steps; show don’t tell).

- An LLM converts these recordings into deterministic scripts with variables (scripts include AI steps as well, where it’s 100% agentic)

- Scripts run reliably, 10x faster, and ~90% cheaper than Browser Use.

- If a step breaks, workflow will fallback to Browser Use and agentically run the step. (This self-healing functionality is still very early.)

This project just kicked off, so lots of things will break, it’s definitely not production-ready yet, and plenty of stuff is still missing (like a solid editor and proper self-healing). But we wanted to share early, get feedback, and figure out what workflows you’d want to automate this way.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

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