CoffeeBlack AI

The Problem with "Super Agents"

Twitter is filled with flashy demos of Computer/Browser Use Agents that promise the world by embedding reasoning and striving to be a "Super Agent". A general purpose assistant that can accomplish any task for any user while at the same time not really solving the real challenges needed for enterprises to put these in production.

When I started this journey, I was pretty confident that this is a fools errand and my resolve has only hardened as I have worked with design partners to build and deploy these agents in real world scenarios. At the core of every business are thousands of repeatable processes and self-healing agents are immensly more valuable than a general purpose assistant.

The Vision: Tightly Bounded Agents & Control

The future over the next 5 years will not be deploying non-deterministic agents that have free reign to accomplish a high level task. It will instead be the codification of business processes at large into light weight automation frameworks that bake in a hidden human-in-the-loop interface to drive reliability and evaluation at scale. It is through this process that millions of tightly bounded agents will be deployed into the enterprise, slowly augmenting humans in their given tasks and turning every employee into a manager of agents.

This future demands a control plane to monitor and evaluate these agents while giving users the tools to direct their individual swarm at will and an interface to quickly build and deploy new agents with code generation.

Risks and Challenges

This space is becoming competitive quickly with companies like BrowserBase, OpenAI, Anthropic, Manus, Cua, Pig and others all competing with each other at various levels.
The technology isn't there just yet for the vast majority of use cases. It will take time for the models and UX in this space to mature.
Automation makes people fearful, but history has proven time and time again that when things become efficient we see more growth which creates more opportunity. It will be our job to find a way to connect with these employees.
The most talented individuals I know all want to build their own company. While at the same time, most people are scared to make a bet due to the volatility in the space.

Progress So Far

Over the past nine months I have:

Built a stack for vision based navigation in GUI environments
Built and deployed numerous computer use agents alongside design partners
Prototyped an initial control plane with a partner that augments human tasks with agents
In the past two weeks, ramped up GTM efforts in the supply chain space and landed 8 meetings to discuss process short comings and how CoffeeBlack AI could augment those workflows while even visiting some onsite.
Just launched our composer interface that makes it easy to build and deploy Browser Use Agents with code generation and a remote environment.

The Path Forward

During this journey I have had the pleasure to meet with and talk to some incredible founders and investors. Each one has given me great advice, but at some point, it becomes time to place a flag in the sand. You must slam the door shut behind you, build an excellent team and commit to the goal with a belief that you'll find the path along the way.

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - General George S. Patton

We are at the dawn of a radical shift in the way that humans and machines work together. This is undeniable if you have spent more than 30 minutes using Cursor as an engineer. I believe this space represents one of the most valuable opportunities on the planet and ironically is overlooked due to an obsession with AGI.

CoffeeBlack AI is building the control plane that will automate the core processes at the heart of every business with a fleet of computer use agents.