Strawberry 1.0: start with a task you can check

Start with the work between your tabs

Pick a task that makes you switch between browser tabs and copy the same information. Ask for a small result you can review, such as a summary of changes across a few public pages. Name the sources and say what the helper must leave untouched.

Strawberry released version 1.0 on October 26, bringing its desktop AI browser out of beta. Tech.eu reported the launch that day. The Stockholm company is building for teams that want AI helpers to work across the business tools they already use.

Read the announcement: Strawberry: Version 1.0 release notes.

A helper can work across the pages you choose

Strawberry calls its AI helpers companions. They can use browser pages and connected tools to research, prepare drafts and organise information. The company describes saving a useful set of instructions so the same preparation can run again on a schedule. Scheduled routines were already available before 1.0.

Version 1.0 adds redesigned companions, including ready-made helpers for particular jobs. That can make a first attempt easier to start, but the job still needs your instructions. Tell the helper which information matters, what a useful answer looks like and when it should ask you for help.

Treat it as a tool for approved business work. Before connecting an account, review the current business terms and privacy information with the person responsible for that account. Using a browser installed on your computer does not, by itself, mean all AI processing stays on that computer.

Give reading and changing different permissions

Strawberry's current site says you choose, per app and per action, what companions may do without asking. Its guide describes asking for proposed changes before they happen. These are the company's descriptions of its controls, not a security test we have performed.

For a first exercise, ask it to prepare a draft without sending messages or changing records. Read the result against the original pages. A useful-looking summary can still miss a date or confuse two similar entries, and permission to read an account should not automatically mean permission to act on everything inside it.

Keep the first experiment small

The current pricing page lists a free plan with 500 monthly credits and paid plans starting at $20 a month. Credits are the allowance used when companions help with work; ordinary browsing is free. Included credits reset monthly and do not roll over, while purchased top-ups do.

Check the usage after a contained task before scheduling it repeatedly. That gives you a clearer starting point than a broad request to take over a whole process. We have not tested how much any particular task would consume.

Save the instructions that made the result useful

Use public or approved sample information while you learn. Keep a short note of what worked and what you corrected.

1. Name one result and the pages the helper may inspect.
2. Ask it to flag missing or conflicting information.
3. Keep sending, publishing and record changes subject to your review.
4. Compare the draft with its sources and check usage.
5. Save the instructions only after you understand the result.

Take the same questions into your own build

Our perspective is that a good first result is one you can explain and check. The same skill helps when you describe an app idea or commission a business tool: specify the information it may use, the outcome it should produce and the point where a person decides what happens next.