Strawberry Browser is a web browser with built-in AI agents that can browse, click, and work across the web on your behalf. After a year in closed beta, the revamped product is now free to download in open beta.
STOCKHOLM, February 17, 2026
Strawberry, a Stockholm-based startup backed by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, today makes its AI-powered browser generally available to the public in open beta.
AI agents have advanced rapidly in recent months, but the tools remain built for developers and power users. Strawberry takes a different approach: it puts AI agents inside a web browser, the tool billions of people already use every day, and makes them accessible to anyone. Whether they are salespeople, recruiters, analysts, or product managers.
A salesperson, for example, can tell Strawberry to source 20 leads on LinkedIn, check them against a CRM, and start outreach. All from a single prompt. This is possible because Strawberry is a full web browser with built-in AI companions that browse on the user's behalf, interact with login-gated platforms that other AI tools can't access, and run multiple agents in parallel.
The product has been completely revamped around a simple idea: the user shouldn't need to learn how to work with AI. The AI should learn how to work with the user.
"We've rebuilt the entire experience from the ground up," said Charles Maddock, co-founder of Strawberry. "The app is more powerful than ever, but also more intuitive. We've lowered the barrier so that anyone can start using AI agents, not just people who know how to write prompts and code. Companies in our closed beta are already treating Strawberry as a new team member. That's the standard we're opening up to everyone today."
A key part of the revamp is a new onboarding experience. Rather than dropping users into a blank chat window, Strawberry asks questions to understand who you are and how you work. With the user's consent, it sends agents to look them up on the web and builds a personalized profile. Within minutes, a new user goes from "what can this thing do?" to receiving tailored suggestions for their specific role and workflow.
This addresses one of the biggest challenges in AI tooling: the use case gap. The product can do a lot, which ironically makes it harder for new users to know where to start. The onboarding closes that gap by showing users what's uniquely possible for them.
"People are talking a lot about AI agents right now, and that's great," said Sebastian Thunman, co-founder of Strawberry. "But we've been building and shipping AI agents for the better part of a year. We kept the beta closed deliberately so we could listen to real users and make the product genuinely good before opening it up. The big shift since our last release is that long-running agents are now deeply viable. You can hand off real work and trust that it gets done."
Thunman draws a contrast with other agent platforms that have launched in recent weeks. Tools like Claude Code are exciting, he says, but complex for non-technical users to get started with. Strawberry's advantage is the browser itself: a familiar interface that doesn't require learning a new paradigm.
"It's time for the non-technical people to see the magic of AI agents," Thunman said. "That's why we're opening the beta now. Not because we're done building, but because we're confident the experience is ready."
The accessibility story is backed by real-world testing. Ahead of the launch, Strawberry published scores from its own benchmark of 12 tasks modeled on actual user workflows: lead sourcing, CRM deduplication, multi-platform research, and competitive analysis. Results were evaluated by an independent LLM (Google Notebook LM) using a standardized rubric.
In those tests, Strawberry outperformed Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas with zero manual interventions.
Separately, on GAIA, the most widely cited independent benchmark for AI agents, Strawberry scored ~78%, the highest among AI browsers available to the public. OpenAI scored 67.36%.