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Browser Agents for Regulated Industries

Asteroid builds and hosts browser AI agents for complex tasks. With built-in guardrails, evaluations and human oversight, we ensure enterprise-grade reliability across millions of operations in regulated industries.
Asteroid
Founded:2024
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Harj Taggar
Active Founders

David Mlcoch, Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Asteroid, a platform to deploy safe and reliable browser AI agents. I have a background in AI (Edinburgh University), autonomous agents (Co-founder and CTO of Trident AI), robotics (CTU, NTU, TAU) and space (EUSPA, SpaceKnow).
David Mlcoch
David Mlcoch
Asteroid

Joe Hewett, Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Asteroid. At Netcraft, I built agents that find bank accounts being used for fraud, disrupting $300m/year in stolen funds.
Joe Hewett
Joe Hewett
Asteroid
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Asteroid: Browser Agents with Human Oversight
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Asteroid makes browser automation seamless for regulated industries. Not only developers but also non-technical teams can build and run our browser agents with Asteroid, turning 45-minute manual tasks into 2-minute automated processes.

Our browser agents can navigate legacy portals, fill out forms, and extract data—all without brittle scripts, high costs, or maintenance headaches.

The Problem

Traditional automation tools like RPA are too expensive for non-enterprise customers, costing $10,000 per automation. Meanwhile, scaleups especially in high-risk industries like insurance or healthcare lack the resources to maintain Selenium or Playwright scripts, as these frequently break due to UI changes and the automations need to be extremely reliable.

The Solution

Browser agents bridge this gap—offering the flexibility of scripting with the reliability of RPA. With 2025’s computer use models, web automation is now 100x cheaper and more robust, unlocking thousands of new use cases.

How It Works

Asteroid transforms any browser task into an agentic workflow. Simply show Asteroid what to do—via a screen recording, SOP, or written instructions—and get an agentic workflow. You can then call it through our web UI or API.

Behind the scenes, Asteroid spins up a secure, headless browser, handles authentication, executes workflows, and seamlessly integrates human review when needed—all without burdening your developers. We ensure the agent improves over time.
🔗 Watch Asteroid in action

Highlighted Features

🔹 API-First Automation – Trigger a browser agent in a web UI or with a single API call—no need for complex scripts or RPA setups.
🔹 Human-in-the-Loop – Automate only where it’s safe, with built-in escalation for manual review when needed.
🔹 Intelligent Guardrails – Set rules like “Never click this button” or “Ask before submitting” to prevent errors.
🔹 Continuous Learning – Asteroid evaluates every execution, adapting to website changes and improving over time using evaluations and backtesting.

How We Got Here

We’re both AI engineers who had to solve the same problem independently. Joe built AI systems that stopped $100M+ in fraud annually. David developed fraud investigation agents for fintechs.

After years of building mission-critical automation, we learned that automation only works with intelligent guardrails, human oversight, and continuous learning.

We first built Asteroid as a developer tool for safe AI deployment—offering guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, and continuous evaluations. But we quickly realized:

**Browser agents need these safeguards even more.**
Guardrails – "Don’t click on this."
Human oversight – "Ping me before you submit."
Continuous learning – "The website changed—adapt."

Instead of just developer tools, we’ve shifted to building browser agents with safety and reliability baked in!

Real-World Use Cases

We’re working with customers to automate high-value workflows like:

🔹 Insurance Portal Automation – Retrieve broker quotes across insurer portals—without manual input.
🔹 Supply Chain Scheduling – Log into carrier platforms, retrieve GPS data, and schedule deliveries—seamlessly.
🔹 Expense Management – Pull PDF bills from utility portals for expense tracking—without APIs.

Who is Asteroid for?

🔹Businesses with Heavy Manual Browser Workflows – Automate large-scale data entry, form submissions, and repetitive portal interactions.
🔹Regulated Businesses using Legacy Systems – Streamline automation for industries like insurance, healthcare and supply chain.
🔹AI Agent Startups – Enable AI agents to reliably interact with legacy portals and automate browser tasks.

Get Started

Have a repetitive workflow you'd love to automate? Let’s explore how Asteroid can help!
🔹 Schedule a demo to discuss your use case!
🔹Try our default agents and see browser automation in action!