Pluno is a browser agent that skips the clicking entirely, talking straight to the APIs underneath your web apps instead of loading pages and pressing buttons like a human, so it can update records, pull data, or run bulk SaaS chores in the background. Built by the Abstreiter brothers off the back of an earlier AI support startup, it benchmarked at 34% more accurate and about 14x faster than Claude's browser extension across 312 tasks in 24 tools.
π₯ Our Take: You know that thing where you watch a browser agent do a task and it's weirdly slow and painful? It loads the page, screenshots it, stares at it, clicks the wrong button, gets stuck in a dropdown. Pluno's whole point is the agent's doing it the human way for no reason, when it could just talk to the API under the app directly, like code does. So instead of clicking around HubSpot or Notion it learns the API and hits it straight, which they clocked at 34% more accurate and about 14x faster than Claude's browser extension. And it fits the founder, Korbinian, an ETH data-science guy who spent years building AI for customer support, so "stop clicking, just call the API" is exactly the instinct you'd expect. The catch nobody really mentions is that learning some app's private API is fragile, the apps never agreed to it, and it can't get past a CAPTCHA.