The Edge Copilot alternative that finishes the job outside Microsoft
Ask for this quarter’s renewal dates across fourteen vendor portals and a companion opens each one already signed in, reads the contract page and hands back one sheet with the owner on every row.
Say “triage everything that came in since Friday, group the billing threads by account and plan tier, and draft a reply to each” and the queue comes back triaged before standup, every draft quoting the customer’s own sentence, nothing sent until you click.
The reach behind it is 93 native integrations carrying 1,257 hand-written operations. Outlook is one of them, alongside Gmail, Slack, Notion, Zoom and Apollo, with 1,975 further apps reachable as connected accounts. Anything left over is reachable in the session you are already signed into. Saved as a routine the same pass runs at the hour you pick, and Keep Awake holds the machine up so it finishes with the lid closed. Free to download on Mac and Windows.
Copilot in Edge is strong where Microsoft is: it ships with the browser and is governed by the controls your IT team already administers. As of this writing Microsoft has retired the separate Copilot Mode and woven those features through Edge itself, including answers drawn from your open tabs with your permission. It summarizes, compares and drafts while you do the browsing.
| Copilot in Edge | Strawberry | |
|---|---|---|
| Built as | AI assistance woven into Edge | Agentic browser with AI companions |
| Core strength | Microsoft 365 integration and governance | Executing work across all your logged-in tools |
| Who does the clicking | You do, with tab-aware help | The companion; you approve |
| Competitive testing | Not published (as of this writing) | Published methodology, re-run monthly |
| Recurring work | See Microsoft’s docs (as of this writing) | Scheduled routines built in |
| Platform and price | Free with Edge, cross-platform | macOS and Windows, free download; credits for companion work |
What does a companion reach that an in-browser assistant does not?
The half of the workday that is not Microsoft.
Outlook is a native Strawberry integration, and so are Gmail, Slack, Notion, Zoom and Apollo, with 93 native integrations carrying 1,257 hand-written operations between them and 1,975 further apps reachable as connected accounts. The CRM, the ATS, the ad manager and the vendor portal nobody ever built a connector for are all just tabs a companion is already signed into.
That reach turns a request into a finished pass. “Read the last thread with each of these twelve accounts and flag the ones where we never answered the question” comes back as twelve verdicts, each carrying the quote it rests on, with every record change staged behind a card that names the field before it commits.
From advice to finished work
Thirty vendor tabs discussed still leaves someone extracting the pricing into a table.
A search strategy for a hire still leaves someone working the hundred profiles and logging the shortlist. The hours live in that gap.
A companion closes it by operating the browser: opening the tabs, reading the pages, extracting, filling, filing and returning the finished thing for review. That is the workload behind data extraction and recruiting, and it is what our competitive suite is built from, with every task and its pass condition published for rerun (methodology).
Is all your work in Microsoft?
Even in a Microsoft shop the day sprawls: the CRM, LinkedIn, vendor portals, the ATS, the analytics dashboard. Companions work in whatever your browser session is signed into, and Outlook sits among the native integrations alongside Gmail, Slack, Notion, Zoom and Apollo, so the Microsoft-adjacent half gets native coverage too.
Sending, posting, paying and changing records each stop at an approval card that names the recipient, the amount or the record before anything commits, per the model on our security page.
What a companion learns about your work
Brief a companion once on your projects, your customers and your voice and it keeps that, improving every time you correct it. It runs your recurring jobs as scheduled routines and covers your calls with meeting prep and transcription.
One shape is a utility provisioned to thousands of seats. The other is a working layer shaped around one professional, which is the one you feel on a Tuesday.
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