What Is Strawberry?

According to their website, “Strawberry is a browser with built-in AI assistants that work alongside you on any website.”

I am telling you, this is an understatement!

This is not another regular product jumping on the AI bandwagon by plugging in a chatbot using OpenAI.

Strawberry is a browser like Chrome and Edge, but it comes with something called Companions.

Companions are AI agents that can do tasks online autonomously while you do other things!

Let’s See A Real Example — Strawberry, Get Me Venues Data

Here is a real case example.

I had to get some social data (Email, Instagram, TikTok) for some restaurants I found on Google Maps.

Now, at scale, you could use the Google Maps API but they don’t give you Instagram and TikTok data.

Thanks to Strawberry, I could do it quickly and effectively!

No need to mess with APIs, no need to find a way to match restaurant names and their social handles on some table.

The prompt

Here is my prompt:

For each of these restaurants, find me an email, 
phone number, Instagram handle and TikTok profile if available, 
Return the data in a table format with the following columns: 
Restaurant name, email, phone, Instagram, TikTok

As you can see, I was using the companion named Lora, which is available on the left panel.

Lora is the standard companion and it works crazy well, although I didn’t set up any

• instructions,
• memories, or
• skills

Think of these as context and what ChatGPT calls memory!

The research

Look at the tabs!

Strawberry autonomously opened those tabs to search for the info I asked.

When I took the screenshot, it just started with Google Maps and then went on with more tabs to research social media info for each of the restaurants.

On top of that, there is a natural dialogue with the companion on the left panel.

I find it useful for unexpected situations, like the following:

Based on the research results, 
I can now present the information in a table format. 
But first, 
let me run one more search batch to confirm Ave Mario's phone number 
which wasn't found in the first batch.
Now, I know there might be a problem with a venue called Ave Mario.

While Strawberry finishes the work, I can work in another tab as usual, which is pretty cool.

The result

See for yourself!

It created the table as I wanted, and it explained the exceptions and so on!

This took maybe a minute or two.

The entire process would take me maybe 30 minutes, so let’s say I saved 90% of the time it would normally take.

More Use Cases?

Well, the potential is really limitless!

These are a few things I came up with:

• Open my Instagram page and get the description of the first three posts in my feed. If there is a … more text, click on more to read the entire text
• Open [pretty much any social] and write the following post…
• Given this Reddit post, read the question, and for each of the first three replies, come up with an appropriate follow-up question or sentence — You can see where this is going for marketing purposes

Why Should You Care About Strawberry?

Well, Strawberry will change the way people work and carry out tasks.

Until now, developers and programmers could create software to do repetitive tasks.

Now everyone can do it!

A few things stood out:

1. This is going to be huge for workflow automation — Any browser-based task — data entry, email drafting, research, etc — can be automated, saving hours.
2. Contextual Learning — Strawberry’s AI Companions get smarter over time, learning my preferences and way of working.
3. Approval-Based Actions — This is really good if you need to work with socials and automate some tasks on the go. Strawberry always asks for approval before executing actions.

Conclusion

The AI Browser revolution is here, and Strawberry is leading the charge.

By integrating intelligent assistants directly into a browser, Strawberry automates tasks and workflows, saving you time.

In a recent update, it is even possible to update videos of how to carry out a task and the Companion will follow the video as instructions!

This is pretty revolutionary and I will write more about it as I explore Strawberry.