Yutori Inc. has launched Delegate, an AI agent designed to act as a proactive web worker. The system allows users to offload and delegate everyday knowledge-work tasks, functioning as an always-on assistant.
Unlike chatbots, Delegate is an agentic AI that can run on schedule, coordinate, organize, and think ahead. The founders, AI researchers Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das, and Dhruv Batra, previously from Meta Platforms Inc., aim to bring this advanced AI to non-technical users. The company name, Yutori, signifies "elbow room" or mental spaciousness.
"The user shouldn’t have to prompt; the user should just delegate tasks," stated Das. Delegate actively takes actions on a user's behalf, moving beyond the reactive nature of chat interfaces. Users can "fire and forget" tasks, with Delegate organizing them, triaging, and identifying what it can handle immediately, what requires further access, and what can be researched.
"We should just have agents that can do these things in parallel, in the background, and draw our attention only when they need something from us," explained Parikh. "They should otherwise just kind of take care of all our digital chores."
Key components of Yutori's architecture include Scouts, web-crawling sub-agents for monitoring, and Navigator, a computer vision-based agent for navigating web pages and filling forms.
Delegate's functionality is enhanced by Yutori Local, a desktop application that acts as a secure interface for the AI agent. Running on MacOS with a Windows version upcoming, it allows the AI to securely access web pages and perform actions, with user-defined trust levels and permissions. Credentials remain on the user's device, ensuring privacy.
Users can monitor Delegate's activities through a visual display of its web navigation, form filling, and button-clicking actions.