How Airtable built its agent platform Hyperagent on Browserbase

  • 300,000+ Hyperagent sessions on Browserbase since April
  • Stagehand powers every web action inside the agent run loop
  • Live browser view is the core UX moment of every agent run

"The core product is becoming a better data layer for agentic and human use, and we’re skating to where the puck is going and looking at what this new agent layer can look like, with Browserbase as a key component." — Andrew Busse, VP of AI Operations at Airtable

Airtable democratized software in the 2010s by letting anyone turn a spreadsheet into a real app. Hyperagent applies the same playbook to agents: anyone can build, deploy, and manage a fleet of specialized agents, without the infrastructure work that usually comes with it.

The Hyperagent team knew preserving the magic of OpenClaw while bringing the experience to a cloud-native, secure environment required a browser layer that is enterprise-grade out of the box. The teams that move first will need infrastructure that lets them focus on the agent, not the plumbing underneath.

Enterprise-grade infra out of the box

Any agent platform aiming for the long game has to solve browser access. For Hyperagent, building it in-house would have meant standing up fleets of browsers, handling authentication walls, observability, and managing global infrastructure, everything the team would have had to maintain forever.

On a recent Lenny's Podcast, Notion's head of product Max Schoening put it well: “Software is like a garden. You need to tend to it. The thing you pay for in the as-a-service is the maintenance.”

The Hyperagent team refused to cut corners and bought the maintenance: Browserbase.

Hyperagent uses Stagehand, Browserbase's open-source SDK, inside its agent run loop. When the agent decides to take a web action, Stagehand turns natural language intent into a reliable browser interaction. Selectors self-heal when pages change, and cached actions skip redundant LLM calls on similar pages.

That choice solved three problems the Hyperagent team would otherwise own:

  • Reliable access to the web. Through Agent Identity, every Hyperagent run gets a cryptographically verified credential using Web Bot Auth, the open standard adopted by Cloudflare and Stytch. Sites recognize the agent as legitimate, so users finish what they started instead of bouncing off a login wall.
  • Burst capacity users never feel. When traffic surges, Browserbase scales to thousands of concurrent browser sessions automatically. Hyperagent users get the same response time on a busy Tuesday as a quiet Sunday, with no queues and no provisioning calls from Hyperagent’s side.
  • Live view that makes debugging fast. Every Hyperagent session is automatically recorded with session replay, structured logs, and live view. When an agent fails on step 47 of a 60-step run, the team sees the exact page state, the exact prompt, and the exact action that broke, instead of guessing from a stack trace at 2am.

What's next together

Agents are becoming the web's second user. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicted earlier this year that bot traffic, much of it driven by agents, will overtake human traffic by 2027, with a single agent capable of hitting a thousand times more sites than a person doing the same task. The more interesting angle is what those agents actually do once they get there.

Both Hyperagent by Airtable and Browserbase are betting on the same shift: software is moving from a thing you use to a thing that does the work for you.

"It's going to be the default that very small teams will build enormously leveraged companies generating hundreds of millions of revenue, because they're fully agentically leveraged." — Howie Liu, CEO at Airtable

Hyperagent gives you the agents. Browserbase gives them the web.

The partnership keeps building. Persistent authentication is coming to Hyperagent so users sign in once and let their agents pick up from there. A growing skills library will give Hyperagent agents pre-built recipes for popular browsing tasks like Google Flights, finance dashboards, and booking flows, all running on Browserbase.

Ready to build? Start with your first browser session, or speak to an expert about your enterprise needs.