rtrvr.ai

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What we ship, how it performs,
and practical ways to put rtrvr to work.

Bhavani Kalisetty's OpenAI dots vs rtrvr.ai comparison. Dots took about five times as long across the five selected runs.

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OpenAI dots vs rtrvr.ai: Speed, Cost and Accuracy

rtrvr ran five tasks about 5× faster than OpenAI dots. See the results, invoice recovery and browser-agent harness, then try the tests yourself.

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OpenAI agents coordinate through a shared message board, then reach external services and Hugging Face.

Research

How OpenAI Agents Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat a Test

How OpenAI agents coordinated to cheat a cybersecurity test, hacked Hugging Face, and used a screenshot service to run code. Evidence and browser-agent defenses.

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I asked Muse for 25 video titles. It said yes. I got no results. Excerpts from my September 10 conversation.

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Muse for everyday life. Retriever AI for work.

Muse missed earlier instructions and called visible Instagram likes hidden. Why context management and on-device browser access matter for creator research.

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How Jev Chooses the Next Browser Action

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How Jev Chooses the Next Browser Action

We added Jev to rtrvr’s browser agent to choose from the actions available on a page. Our LinkedIn and Amazon runs finished sooner, but scoring large pages raised the cost.

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Stop Paying AI to Plan the Same Task Twice

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Stop Paying AI to Plan the Same Task Twice

In a new paper, a 9B model with tested skills beat a 27B model without them. Browser agents now need a way to find the right skill, test it, and remove it when it stops working.

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Financial Markets and Model Routers

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Financial Markets and Model Routers

Stock markets aggregate information for price discovery. Blockchains distribute execution and settlement. Model routing can combine both architectures: centralized data for selection, local provider estimates, and independent verification of task completion before updating the next route.

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How We Built a Free Browser Agent, Paid for by Ads

Research

How We Built a Free Browser Agent, Paid for by Ads

How rtrvr cut a browser-agent task to about half a cent using semantic page trees, code plans, and prompt caching, then made the agent free with sponsored cards.

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How prefix caching cut our browser-agent token bill by 90%

Research

How prefix caching cut our browser-agent token bill by 90%

The cache boundary, measurements, and implementation choices that made long browser runs materially cheaper.

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The self-improving action layer we are building

Product

The self-improving action layer we are building

A concrete roadmap for turning successful browser work into reusable actions without losing review and control.

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PUT IT TO WORK

Run the idea on a real site.

Start with the sites open in Chrome. Move repeated or parallel work to Cloud. Talk to us when the agent belongs inside your product or team.