Retriever is a free AI browser agent that finishes work across websites. Ask it to find leads and send outreach, shortlist TikTok and Instagram creators for your next campaign, or apply to jobs. Run tasks in your own Chrome browser or in cloud browsers hosted by rtrvr. It beats OpenAI, Anthropic, and Muse on accuracy, runs 5x faster, and costs 300x less.
Hey Product Hunt, Bhavani here, cofounder of rtrvr.ai 👋
Arjun and I are two former Google engineers building an AI browser agent with 35,000+ users. Today, we're bringing our free agent to Product Hunt.
We believe you should choose your AI, your model, and which work to hand over. Let Retriever handle the repetitive browser work you'd happily stop doing.
Ask Retriever to research leads and send outreach, shortlist TikTok and Instagram creators, or apply to jobs. Run tasks in your own Chrome browser or in cloud browsers hosted by Retriever.
Our median AI cost is under 1¢ per task. That's what makes free access possible.
We built our own DOM-based agent harness. It reads webpages as compact text, runs multiple actions together, checks results, and recovers from errors. Context caching, open-weight models, and continual learning through reusable site skills reduce the work each model has to do.
The performance matters just as much as the cost:
- 81.4% task completion in our published Web Bench evaluation, ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic agents.
- 5× faster and 300x cheaper than OpenAI dots across our AI Agent Benchmark.
You can also connect Retriever to OpenAI dots, Claude, or Codex through MCP and let your preferred AI hand off web data and browser automation tasks to it. Bulent, a user who connected OpenAI dots to rtrvr, told us:
> "I configured Dot to extensively use Retrieval AI on my behalf, and I'm getting much better results."
Small sponsored ads now and then help fund Free Mode. No subscription or API key needed. Start in the Chrome extension or Cloud dashboard.
We want solo founders, GTM experts, small businesses, students and anyone with work piling up to have access to our SOTA agent to automate their work for free.
Give Retriever a task you've been putting off. What would you like to get off your plate? http://rtrvr.ai/
Congrats Bhavani and Arjun on bringing free Retriever to Product Hunt. The DOM harness plus site skills that make repeat tasks cheaper is the interesting part of the cost story. When a skill is learned in the Chrome extension on a logged-in site, does that same skill transfer to a cloud browser run with cookie sync, or do you relearn the site path in each environment?
Bhavani and Arjun have been killing it with rtrvr, great product and excited for everyone else to try out the product too!
Hi, so this i have connected the mcp to my agent, and also installed the extension, but it shows devices 0, does this needs an upgrade?
very good team, very responsive with a solid technical background and feature-rich product. Still there is a long way to go until it becomes THE (only) Web AI agent you will ever need. but for now, at this stage, everything is going very well.
from 35k+ users already, what are the most common tasks that you noticed people delegating in the "let's see what it can do" phase?
congrats @bhavani_kalisetty@arjun_chintapalli - it can send outreach on its own, great! until it sends 200 dms you didn't want. is there an approval step or a daily cap before anything goes under my name?
@arjun_chintapalli impressive to see so many features in one AI agent which use case would you be recommend trying first ?
Cool that Retriever AI is a browser agent that finds leads and reaches out on its own, which takes a lot of the grunt work out of prospecting.
Congrats on the launch!
Really interesting concept curious to see how it performs in the wild...
Hey Product Hunt, Arjun here, the other cofounder!
A fun fact about this launch: Retriever helped run it. I had Claude hand our outreach to Retriever over MCP, and it sent our DMs on X and filled out our directory submissions while we worked on everything else. That’s exactly the work we built it for: tedious, multi-step, and spread across sites that have no API.
A few things you can do with it today:
Free Mode: run tasks for free, funded by small sponsored ads
Cloud schedules: have a task run every morning, even with your laptop closed. Our entire cloud browser infra is hosted on Cloud Run, shout out to @Google Cloud for amazing resilient infra!
Cookie sync: log in once in Chrome, and cloud runs stay signed in
Site skills: it remembers how a site works, so repeat tasks get faster and cheaper
MCP: hand web tasks to Retriever from Claude, Codex or Cursor
I’m here all day. Drop a task you’d want automated in the comments, and I’ll run it and reply with what happened, good or bad. Honest feedback on where it breaks helps us most.
Arjun
About Retriever AI on Product Hunt
“Free AI browser agent: find leads, reach out, apply to jobs”
Retriever AI launched on Product Hunt on October 14th, 2026 and earned 226 upvotes and 33 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Retriever is a free AI browser agent that finishes work across websites. Ask it to find leads and send outreach, shortlist TikTok and Instagram creators for your next campaign, or apply to jobs. Run tasks in your own Chrome browser or in cloud browsers hosted by rtrvr. It beats OpenAI, Anthropic, and Muse on accuracy, runs 5x faster, and costs 300x less.
Retriever AI was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.8k followers), Productivity (663.1k followers), Artificial Intelligence (481.1k followers) and Google Cloud Run (4 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 313.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Retriever AI?
Retriever AI was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Retriever AI stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
Rohan Chaubey