The Executive & Assistant Analogy

Sometimes the best way to understand a complex system is through a simple analogy. Here's how Unbrowse works, explained through a real-world scenario.

The Scenario

Imagine you're a high-level executive with a brilliant personal assistant.

This assistant is fast, intelligent, and extremely capable — the kind of person who can solve any problem once they get to the right place.

Now imagine you tell this assistant:

"Go across the city and buy me a two-week vacation package to Bali. Here's the money and my documents — take care of it."

The Traditional Way (Current AI Agents)

graph LR
    A[Start: Office] --> B[Wait for Tram]
    B --> C[Transfer to Metro]
    C --> D[Queue for Bus]
    D --> E[Walk Several Blocks]
    E --> F[Wait in Line]
    F --> G[Wait for Agent]
    G --> H[Finally: Travel Agency]

    style A fill:#e1f5ff
    style H fill:#ffe1e1
    style B fill:#ffcccc
    style C fill:#ffcccc
    style D fill:#ffcccc
    style E fill:#ffcccc
    style F fill:#ffcccc
    style G fill:#ffcccc

Your assistant is talented, but the real world slows them down:

  1. They have to wait for the tram

  2. Then transfer to the metro

  3. Then queue for a bus

  4. Then walk several blocks

  5. Then wait in line at the travel agency

  6. Then wait for the agent at the counter to be free

By the time your assistant reaches the agency, talks to the travel manager, collects options, calls you back to confirm the booking, and finally completes the transaction... hours have passed.

Their Intelligence Wasn't the Problem

The problem was the infrastructure — all the friction, delays, and unnecessary steps along the way.

How This Relates to AI Agents

This is exactly how today's AI agents interact with the web.

Even if the agent is smart and fast (like GPT-based agents), every website forces it through slow, friction-heavy steps:

  • Click here

  • Scroll there

  • Wait for page load

  • Handle popups

  • Close promo offers

  • Fill long forms

  • Click "Next" over and over

Some tasks require 3-4 such steps. Others require 20+ (like buying flights or completing complex checkouts).

All of this adds:

  • Latency (waiting for each step)

  • Errors (things break or change)

  • Frustration (unreliable execution)

Just like navigating a crowded city with terrible public transit.

Enter Unbrowse: The Private Highway

Unbrowse is like giving your assistant access to a private high-speed highway that floats above the city, with:

  • No traffic

  • No transfers

  • No queues

  • No detours

  • No delays

Your assistant now moves directly from point A to point B — straight to the travel agency — in a fraction of the time.

They don't need:

  • The tram

  • The metro

  • The bus

  • The queue

  • The waiting room

They just go.

What This Means for AI Agents

That's what Unbrowse does for AI agents:

It removes all the friction of "clicking/scrolling through websites" and lets them act directly, instantly, and reliably through the network layer "under the hood" of every website.

The Numbers

Traditional approach (GUI automation):

  • 30-45 seconds per action

  • 70-85% success rate

  • $0.01-$0.10 per action

With Unbrowse (network-level):

  • 0.3 seconds per action (100x faster)

  • 95%+ success rate

  • $0.001-$0.006 per action (50-100x cheaper)

The Core Message

Your assistant didn't become smarter — you simply gave them better infrastructure.

AI agents didn't suddenly evolve — Unbrowse gave them a frictionless highway across the web.

Real-World Example

Without Unbrowse

An AI agent booking a flight might:

  1. Open browser (wait for load)

  2. Navigate to airline site (wait)

  3. Close cookie popup (click, wait)

  4. Search for flights (type, click, wait 5-10s)

  5. Close advertisement overlay (click, wait)

  6. Select flight option (click, wait)

  7. Fill passenger info across 3 pages (type, click, wait × 3)

  8. Review booking (scroll, click, wait)

  9. Handle upsell offers (click, click, click, wait)

  10. Enter payment details (type, click, wait)

  11. Confirm purchase (click, wait)

Total time: 2-5 minutes Success rate: 70-80% (often breaks on step 4, 7, or 9)

With Unbrowse

The agent simply says: "Book flight to Tokyo, Jan 10-15, under $800"

Unbrowse:

  1. Searches ability index (0.01s)

  2. Finds "Search flights on [airline]" ability

  3. Executes network request directly to airline API

  4. Returns structured results (0.3s)

  5. Agent reviews options with user

  6. User confirms choice

  7. Executes "Book flight" ability

  8. Direct network request completes booking (0.3s)

Total time: <1 second (excluding human review) Success rate: 95%+

The Infrastructure Shift

This isn't about making AI smarter. It's about giving AI the infrastructure it needs to use the internet the way the internet actually works.

Browsers translate human actions into network requests. Unbrowse lets AI skip the human actions and send the requests directly.

Next: See how Google vs Unbrowse compares as an indexing analogy.

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