What is an AI companion?
A personal AI teammate that works in your browser. You hand it the job, it does the job in the accounts you are already signed into, and it stops for your approval before anything consequential.
An AI companion is a personal AI teammate with its own identity and context that works alongside you in your browser. It opens tabs, reads pages, fills forms and drafts in the accounts you are already signed into.
Say "screen the 38 new applicants against the rubric" and you get back a ranked list and a stack of approval cards. A chat window would have told you how to do it.
What makes it a companion and not a chatbot?
Three things, and all three are about persistence:
- It holds a role. A chatbot answers inside one thread and forgets the job when the tab closes; a companion keeps its role, its context and its tool access across every session.
- You can watch it work. It runs when you or a schedule starts it, in a browser you can see, interrupt and correct.
- It is a teammate with a job. The consumer sense of “AI companion” means emotional-support chat, a different product category.
What a companion does in an afternoon
A recruiting companion is set up once with your rubric, your tone and your tools.
On Tuesday you say: "screen the 38 new applicants against the rubric, write the screening notes, and stage the ATS updates." It opens all 38 in your session, scores each one, writes the notes in the voice you established, and queues the stage changes. Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable and Teamtailor are native integrations, so those writes go through tools rather than clicking.
You get a ranked list and a stack of approval cards. Nothing was sent and nothing was written until you clicked. Put the same pass on a schedule and it becomes a routine. Finished work is browsable at real runs.
How is a companion different from an AI assistant?
An assistant helps you do the work. A companion does a piece of the work and hands it back for review. The browser-specific version of that line is at what is a browser agent.
One vocabulary note, because it matters for accuracy. Inside Strawberry, "companion" means the persistent teammate and "agent" means a bounded execution: one task, one run. A companion may launch several of those to finish a job.
What a companion can reach in your accounts
A companion inherits your permissions and nothing more: everything you can reach, nothing you cannot. No credential ever leaves your machine. It reads pages rather than parsing markup, so a redesign is a Tuesday, and a misread comes back as a question on an approval card.
Scheduled work runs in your own browser, and Keep Awake lets a run finish with the lid closed. Reading and acting spend credits: Strawberry is free with 2,000 a month and paid plans start at $20/month. See pricing and the security model at is it safe to let AI use my browser.
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