Browser control
Your AI agent opens the browser, navigates to any page, reads content, fills forms, clicks buttons, and completes multi-step workflows. If a human can do it in Chrome, your agent can do it too.
How they use your computer
Control any browser or desktop app.
Your AI agent operates your browser and desktop apps the way a human would. Navigate web apps, fill forms, click buttons, move files, and complete multi-step workflows across any application. Install the lightweight companion app and your employee gains access to your entire machine.
Not every tool has an API. Automation lets your AI employee operate your browser and computer the way a human would.
The desktop companion app bridges your employee to your local machine. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Every action goes through the approval gateway. Your employee explains what it wants to do and waits for your permission.
Browser and desktop are one capability here, not two separate products. The same employee can pull a list out of a web dashboard, open a desktop application to work through it, save the result in a local folder and file a summary back in your workspace, all inside a single run. That matters because real work rarely sits in one place. The jobs that eat your week are the ones crossing a browser tab, a spreadsheet and some internal tool nobody ever integrated.
Two everyday jobs are built straight on top of it. File organization reads a folder, works out what each file actually is, and files it the way you described once, so a single instruction like clean up my downloads runs the whole routine. Data entry reads a source such as a spreadsheet, a CSV export, a PDF or an email thread, opens the target system and types each record in, checking every field against the source before it submits. Anything incomplete or ambiguous is set aside and reported rather than guessed at.
This is not a recorded macro. A script pinned to a button's position breaks the day a site ships a redesign, which is why most people quietly give up on automating their vendor portals. Your employee reads the screen the way a person does, finds what it needs by the label rather than the coordinates, and carries on when the layout moves. There is nothing to record, no selectors to maintain and no flowchart to rebuild when a supplier changes their login page.
Control stays with you, and it stays visible. Consequential steps go through the approval gateway, where the employee explains what it is about to do and waits for your yes. File access is bounded to your home directory, moves and renames are the default rather than deletion, and every action lands in the activity feed with screenshots so you can replay exactly what happened. If the employee gets stuck or meets something it did not expect, it messages you instead of pushing on.
At a Glance
- Any
- Browser or desktop app
- 3
- Platforms supported
- Gated
- Approval before action
Benefits
Desktop control
Beyond the browser, your agent controls desktop applications. It opens apps, navigates menus, moves files between folders, takes screenshots, and performs tasks that normally require a human at the keyboard.
Safe automation
Before clicking a button, submitting a form, or moving a file, the agent explains what it wants to do and waits for permission. You approve or reject from a notification. Nothing runs without your consent.
How It Works
Your AI employees operate real software, not just APIs, by controlling browsers and desktop apps directly on your machine.
Browser automation lets your AI agent navigate any web application, fill forms, click buttons, extract data, and complete multi-step workflows exactly like a human would. No API required. If a person can do it in a browser, your AI employee can do it too. This includes logging into tools, scraping dashboards, submitting reports, and handling repetitive browser-based tasks at scale.
The Sista companion app for macOS, Windows, and Linux extends automation to your desktop. Your AI agent can open applications, interact with GUIs, read screens, and take actions inside software that has no API and no browser interface. You install the companion once and your AI employees gain full access to your local environment.
Once the companion app is running, these workflows no longer need anyone at the keyboard. Put a browser or desktop job on a schedule and it runs on its own rhythm, whether that is pulling a weekly report every Friday morning or clearing the downloads folder every Friday afternoon. Approval gates still apply to whatever you chose to gate, so an unattended run pauses and waits rather than pushing through a step you wanted to see first. Every run leaves a logged record with screenshots, so the next morning you read what happened instead of wondering.
Use Cases
Automate repetitive browser tasks
Your AI employee navigates websites, fills forms, clicks through workflows, and extracts data just like a human would, but faster and without breaks.
Control desktop apps to get work done
Let your employee operate desktop software directly: open files, run programs, copy data between apps, and complete multi-step workflows without API access required.
Monitor and interact with web dashboards
Your employee checks a dashboard, reads the current state, takes action based on what it sees, and reports back. No API needed if the data lives in a UI.
Handle multi-step processes end to end
Chain browser and desktop actions into a full workflow: log in, pull a report, process the data, and upload results. One task, fully automated from start to finish.
FAQ
What can an AI employee actually do on my computer?
With the Sistava companion app installed, an AI employee can operate your browser and your desktop applications the way a person would: open apps, navigate menus, fill in forms, click buttons, read what is on screen, move and rename files, and take screenshots. It works with software that has no API, no integration and no export button. If you can do it with a mouse and a keyboard, you can hand it over.
Do I need to install anything to get started?
Yes, one thing: the Sistava companion app, on the machine you want your employee to use. It is a lightweight bridge, so the thinking still happens in Sistava and only the actions happen locally. One install covers browser control, desktop control, file organization and data entry, and you install it once per machine you want reachable.
Will it take an action on my behalf without asking me first?
Not on the steps that matter. Before submitting a form, completing a purchase, deleting anything or taking any other consequential action, the employee describes what it is about to do and waits for your approval, which you give or refuse from a notification. You decide which kinds of action need that check and which can run freely, and the setting holds even on scheduled runs when nobody is watching.
Does this work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Yes. The Sistava companion app runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and it absorbs the differences between them so your employee behaves the same on all three. Install it on each machine you want an employee to operate. The employee itself lives in Sistava, so one employee can work across several machines that each have the companion running.
Do I have to record a script or draw a workflow diagram?
No. You describe the job in plain language, the same way you would explain it to someone sitting next to you, and the employee works out the steps. There is nothing to record, no selectors to write and no flowchart to maintain. When a site or an app changes its layout, the employee reads the new screen and carries on rather than breaking.
Does my computer need to be switched on for a scheduled job to run?
For anything that touches your machine, yes. Browser control, desktop control, file organization and data entry all run through the companion app, so that machine needs to be on with the app running when the job fires. Work that only involves your connected cloud tools does not depend on your computer at all and runs whether you are at your desk or not.
How do I check what it did on my machine afterwards?
Every action taken through the companion app is recorded in the activity feed, step by step, with screenshots along the way. You can watch it happen live on the screen, or open the run later and read the pages it visited, the fields it filled and the files it moved. Nothing runs invisibly, which is what makes it reasonable to let software act on your accounts.
Why use this instead of the automation tool I already have?
Most automation tools need either an API on the far end or a recorded sequence of clicks that the next redesign will break. Sistava needs neither, because the employee reads the screen and adapts, and you brief it in plain language instead of building the flow yourself. It also carries the context from every other conversation you have had with it, so the same employee that drafts your email can go and fill in the portal.
Automate Any Software
Most automation tools require an API or a webhook. Sista does not. Your AI agents work the way a person works: by seeing the screen and taking action. That means any software, any web app, any legacy tool is automatable without custom integration work.
The companion app turns your AI employee into a local operator. You grant it access once and it can handle workflows across your entire desktop environment. Add more agents and they each get their own controlled execution context, no conflicts, no shared state.
How It Works
- Install the companion app: Download the Sista companion for macOS, Windows, or Linux. Your AI agents get desktop access immediately after install.
- Point agents at any software: Assign browser or desktop automation tasks directly. Your AI employee navigates, clicks, and completes workflows in real applications.
- Scale without integrations: No API contracts to maintain and no webhooks to configure. Add agents to handle more automations as your needs grow.
We use Sistava to automate our legacy systems. The AI employee just opens it, fills the forms, and explains the results. It saves us hours of manual work.
Features in Desktop Control
- Browser Automation: Most automation tools can read a public web page and stop there. The moment a task needs a real login, a multi-step form, or clicking through an actual workflow, they fall over. Browser Automation gives an employee a real browser on your own machine, driven through the desktop companion app, so it can navigate, click, type, and pull data out of sites the same way you would, including the ones that live behind a sign-in.
- Computer Controller: Most AI tools stop at the browser. The moment work lives in Photoshop, Excel, Logic, Final Cut, or a native app with no API, they're stuck. Computer Controller is what lets an employee step outside the browser and operate your actual desktop, real mouse, real keyboard, real screen, through the companion app running on your machine.
- Proactive Employer Messaging: Your AI employee does not wait for you to check in. When it finishes a task, hits a blocker, or needs a decision from you, it sends the update itself, straight into the same chat thread you already use with that employee. No separate inbox, no polling a dashboard to see if something happened.
- Automatic File Organization: Your AI employee sorts, renames, and files documents on your own computer through the Sistava Desktop Companion app: reading what is in a folder, working out what each file is, and moving it where it belongs using the naming convention and folder structure you describe in plain language. File access stays inside your home folder, and every move, rename, or write is recorded in the activity feed so you can see exactly what changed.
- Hands Free Data Entry: Your AI employee reads records from a spreadsheet, export, email, or PDF and types them into any web or desktop application, including tools with no API. Every field is checked against the source before submission, and anything incomplete or ambiguous is set aside in an exception report instead of entered wrong. Recurring entry jobs run on a schedule with the approval checkpoints you choose.