Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark, a startup that raised $700 cardinal successful Series A backing successful May, contiguous launched its cause Hark Handoff, which tin usage a browser efficiently to implicit tasks.

The institution claims that Handoff tin easy navigate websites that person nary authoritative APIs, including Target, Walmart, OpenTable, and LinkedIn. It said that the Handoff cause looks astatine website operation and ocular information to recognize if it needs to click buttons oregon benignant information.

The premise is akin to tons of browser-based agents released before. Issue a command, and it volition implicit tasks for you, including ordering nutrient oregon coffee, booking question tickets, filing returns, buying for essentials, reserving a array astatine a restaurant, oregon researching connected your behalf by looking astatine assorted sources.

In a video demo, the company’s CEO, Brett Adcock, showed that the adjunct tin instrumentality a bid to physique a bouquet with flowers users specify, on with accommodating fuzzy presumption similar “some of the florist’s choice.” Notably, the video shows lone portion of the process, truthful we can’t truly gauge its effectiveness.

The institution said that for this release, it’s utilizing a post-trained model, and plans to pre-train aboriginal this year. Hark said that, with this approach, it tin refine its information pipeline, grooming infrastructure, and techniques much quickly. Hark besides claims that, dissimilar ample connection models (LLMs) predicting the adjacent token, its exemplary tin foretell the adjacent enactment — which could beryllium a timepiece oregon a keyboard input astatine a circumstantial place.

There are galore companies moving connected computer-use agents, including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with VC-funded startups moving connected browser-based task automation, specified arsenic Browser Use, Polar, Strawberry, and Aside.

Hark said that its Handoff cause is faster than the contention and besides costs overmuch little than different models similar GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8. The startup has opened a waitlist for its level and plans to merchandise it by the extremity of the summer.