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Skyvern

Open-source AI agent that automates browser workflows using computer vision instead of CSS selectors, with native CAPTCHA and 2FA handling.

Skyvern was founded in 2023 by Suchintan Singh, Shuchang Zheng, and Kerem Yilmaz, and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch under the legal entity Ikonomos Inc. Both technical co-founders came from infrastructure roles at Faire, Gopuff, and Lyft before starting the company, which is based in San Francisco. Rather than reading a page's DOM and matching CSS selectors the way Playwright or Selenium scripts do, Skyvern takes screenshots of a page and uses vision-language models to identify buttons, fields, and links, then acts on natural-language instructions. That approach is aimed specifically at form-heavy, legacy enterprise sites without usable APIs, such as HR portals or supplier procurement systems, and the platform natively solves CAPTCHAs and handles two-factor login flows without a third-party solving service. The company is open source on GitHub, with a hosted cloud product on top, and has raised early-stage funding from investors including Y Combinator and Unpopular Ventures. It competes with browser-use for general LLM-driven web agents, positioning itself specifically for brittle, form-based workflows rather than general-purpose scraping.

Founded

2023

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Sector

applications