A supplier portal with no export button: your coworker drives it, stops at the sign-in, hands over, and carries on once you're through.
What it does
Some things simply aren’t available any other way. A supplier portal with no export button. A form on a site nobody has ever built an integration for. A dashboard that only exists as a dashboard. The live browser gives your coworker a real browser it can drive: navigating, typing, clicking, scrolling. You can watch it happen. And when it reaches something only you can get past — a password, a two-factor code — it stops and hands the browser over to you rather than guessing.When you’d use it
- Pull a report out of a supplier portal that has no export button
- Submit a form on a site with no integration
- Check stock levels on a partner’s dashboard every morning
- Page through search results on a site that blocks automated readers
- Download a statement that’s only available after signing in
- Fill in the same tedious web form for forty records
The handoff, which is the good part
This is the bit worth understanding, because it’s what makes the capability usable on real sites.1
Your coworker opens the browser
A live view appears inside the task. You can watch every page load and every click as it happens.
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It reaches a login
A password, a one-time code, a “prove you are human” check — anything it shouldn’t or can’t get past on its own.
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It hands control to you
A card appears in the conversation. The browser is now yours, in the same window, on the same page.
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You sign in and hand it back
Enter the password, approve the prompt, then give control back. Your coworker picks up exactly where it stopped.
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Next time, it is already signed in
A named browser remembers where it’s logged in. The next task on the same site doesn’t ask again.
Turning it on
Open your coworker, choose Capabilities, and find Live browser in the Built-in tools list. It’s on by default.Live browser — Drive a real cloud browser: log in to sites, fill forms, click through pages. You can watch it live, and logins are remembered.
The Live browser row. Note that logins are remembered between tasks.
Good to know
The browser runs in the cloud, not on your computer. Closing your laptop doesn’t stop it, and nothing it does touches your own browser or your own sessions.
Common questions
Can I watch it work?
Can I watch it work?
Yes — that’s the point of the live view. You see the actual browser as it navigates, and you can step in at any moment, not just when it asks.
Do I have to sign in again every task?
Do I have to sign in again every task?
No. A named browser keeps its sessions, so once you’ve signed into a site, later tasks find it already signed in. You’ll only be asked again if the site signs you out.
What happens if I am not around when it needs me?
What happens if I am not around when it needs me?
It waits. The task pauses at the handoff rather than failing or guessing, and picks up whenever you get to it. If you’d rather it kept busy elsewhere, see Self-scheduling.
Is this safe on sites with our company data?
Is this safe on sites with our company data?
You control which sites it ever visits by what you ask for, and you can require approval before it acts using Permission rules. Credentials you enter go into the site, never into the conversation.
What if the site changes its layout?
What if the site changes its layout?
Your coworker reads the page each time rather than following a fixed script, so a redesign that would break a recorded macro usually doesn’t trouble it. If it genuinely gets stuck, it tells you instead of pretending it worked.
Next steps
Reading web pages
The lighter option for public pages.
Connecting your apps
Check for a proper integration first.
Approvals
What pauses for your yes.
Schedules
Run that portal check every morning.