Retriever AI
Free AI browser agent: find leads, reach out, apply to jobs
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Retriever AI - Free AI browser agent: find leads, reach out, apply to jobs

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Retriever is a free AI browser agent that finishes work across websites. Ask it to find leads and send outreach, shortlist TikTok and Instagram creators for your next campaign, or apply to jobs. Run tasks in your own Chrome browser or in cloud browsers hosted by rtrvr. It beats OpenAI, Anthropic, and Muse on accuracy, runs 5x faster, and costs 300x less.

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Hey Product Hunt, Bhavani here, cofounder of rtrvr.ai 👋 Arjun and I are two former Google engineers building an AI browser agent with 35,000+ users. Today, we're bringing our free agent to Product Hunt. We believe you should choose your AI, your model, and which work to hand over. Let Retriever handle the repetitive browser work you'd happily stop doing. Ask Retriever to research leads and send outreach, shortlist TikTok and Instagram creators, or apply to jobs. Run tasks in your own Chrome browser or in cloud browsers hosted by Retriever. Our median AI cost is under 1¢ per task. That's what makes free access possible. We built our own DOM-based agent harness. It reads webpages as compact text, runs multiple actions together, checks results, and recovers from errors. Context caching, open-weight models, and continual learning through reusable site skills reduce the work each model has to do. The performance matters just as much as the cost: - 81.4% task completion in our published Web Bench evaluation, ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic agents. - 5× faster and 300x cheaper than OpenAI dots across our AI Agent Benchmark. You can also connect Retriever to OpenAI dots, Claude, or Codex through MCP and let your preferred AI hand off web data and browser automation tasks to it. Bulent, a user who connected OpenAI dots to rtrvr, told us: > "I configured Dot to extensively use Retrieval AI on my behalf, and I'm getting much better results." Small sponsored ads now and then help fund Free Mode. No subscription or API key needed. Start in the Chrome extension or Cloud dashboard. We want solo founders, GTM experts, small businesses, students and anyone with work piling up to have access to our SOTA agent to automate their work for free. Give Retriever a task you've been putting off. What would you like to get off your plate?

Congrats   !!! So excited for this launch, Retreiver's price and quality are unmatched. Not just browsing but actually completing tasks. Proud to have you as a partner with

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Thanks a lot,   and likewise absolutely great working with the ZeroClick team

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Hey Product Hunt, Arjun here, the other cofounder!

A fun fact about this launch: Retriever helped run it. I had Claude hand our outreach to Retriever over MCP, and it sent our DMs on X and filled out our directory submissions while we worked on everything else. That’s exactly the work we built it for: tedious, multi-step, and spread across sites that have no API.

A few things you can do with it today:

  • Free Mode: run tasks for free, funded by small sponsored ads

  • Cloud schedules: have a task run every morning, even with your laptop closed. Our entire cloud browser infra is hosted on Cloud Run, shout out to for amazing resilient infra!

  • Cookie sync: log in once in Chrome, and cloud runs stay signed in

  • Site skills: it remembers how a site works, so repeat tasks get faster and cheaper

  • MCP: hand web tasks to Retriever from Claude, Codex or Cursor

I’m here all day. Drop a task you’d want automated in the comments, and I’ll run it and reply with what happened, good or bad. Honest feedback on where it breaks helps us most.

Arjun

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How did you use Cloud Run for this launch?
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Cloud Run powers the backend behind Retriever’s Chrome extension, cloud platform, API, MCP and WhatsApp. We deploy our agent services on Cloud Run. Here’s how the pieces fit together:

  • On-device execution: DOM parsing and browser actions run in the Chrome extension. Our Cloud Run backend handles model requests and coordinates the agent loop.

  • Cloud execution: Cloud Run services dispatch tasks to isolated Chrome sessions, track progress and return results. Users can run tasks in parallel.

  • Scheduling: Cloud Tasks dispatches scheduled runs, with Firestore tracking their state. Execution IDs, worker leases and concurrency policies help prevent duplicate or overlapping runs. Retries have explicit limits and backoff.

  • WhatsApp and webhooks: Queued workers handle the task and send updates back to the chat.

  • Scaling: We keep latency-sensitive routes warm, allow event-driven workers to scale to zero, and set concurrency, memory and timeout limits for each workload.

from 35k+ users already, what are the most common tasks that you noticed people delegating in the "let's see what it can do" phase?

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 we have seen users request for almost all of the data in the world. It's a problem on us builders of educating users what's possible with the AI and how to guide, nudge through and through.

This is insane. It is like a browser and executing agent in one.

Maker

Exactly, thanks Nika!

impressive to see so many features in one AI agent which use case would you be recommend trying first ?

Maker

 The killer use case everyone wants is to automate LinkedIn outreach in your browser completely for free, just prompt agent to:
- send connection requests
- sync DM's to CRM
- apply to jobs

congrats - it can send outreach on its own, great! until it sends 200 dms you didn't want. is there an approval step or a daily cap before anything goes under my name?

Maker

   The agent already knows about LinkedIn limits and will ask you back for confirmation if needed!

This is a really awesome, efficient tool for agents. Thank you!

Maker

 Thanks Michael!

Who is the primary audience for this application?

Maker

 We are making automations accessible and free for 3 key audience segments: SMBs, GTM/sales teams and students.

They just have to install our browser agent extension or on website cloud platform and prompt to:

  • Generate and enrich leads. Build a list, enrich, and send outreach across email, socials.

  • Social media on autopilot: Finding creators, brands to work with, analyze and post content, reply, and follow up.

  • Apply to jobs end to end. Find roles and fill the forms. Also do course work, homework, exams. lessons, quizzes, and submissions

Congrats on the launch!

Really interesting concept curious to see how it performs in the wild...

Maker

 We beat OpenAI and Anthropic in benchmarks!

 That’s a huge win, honestly! Beating OpenAI and Anthropic is no small feat. What was the hardest part of getting the agent to perform this well?

Maker

 Handling for the long tail of websites and edge cases is truly ticky! But luckily enough we set up a continually learning harness that self-learns from failures so no agent across the fleet will repeat the same mistake!

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