AskUI: RPA for the age of AI

Today, we’re having a look at AskUI. AskUI, a German startup armed with a Seed round of $6.6 million in total.

In the AI age, most companies rely on chains of APIs, plugins, and automation tools to keep work moving. Zapier workflows call SaaS APIs, LLM agents trigger webhooks, and internal scripts scrape browser interfaces to fill in the gaps.

These systems promise automation, but often break when the input differs from the expected. With AI, these tools now possess intuition, but integrations are often the breaking point where things go wrong.

This is the problem German startup AskUI, armed with a Seed round and $6.6 million in total funding, is determined to solve. Their flagship product, Caesr.app, isn't just an automation tool. Rather, it promises to seamlessly integrate the exciting capabilities of LLMs to desktop interfaces.

The Vision Agent difference

AskUI’s core technology is the Vision Agent.

The fundamental principle is simple:

If a human can see it and act on it, so can the AI.

The Vision Agent operates on the pixel layer. It uses vision models to literally look at your screen, then execute actions via the operating system’s native input layer.

This enables the Vision Agent to not only deal with unexpected tasks, but to work across a variety of operating systems. The result: automation that is resilient, not brittle.

To evaluate whether your workflow may benefit from a Vision AI automation approach, try the following:

I initially tried Caesr with a simple command: “Open the notes app and write Hello world.” The magic moment was definitively real for me. The cursor moved, the application launched, and text appeared exactly where it should.

Caesr.ai is AskUI’s preview of the Vision Engine, and the early product is a bit on the slower side and the UI feels a bit clunky. However, the product is surprisingly good at getting things done. In my early testing — using Excel, Word, and even some coding tools — I thought that the product was surprisingly intuitive and accurate in its decision making. Even when it used a misguided approach, it rarely got stuck and tried various paths to arrive at a satisfactory solution.

Integration as the next frontier

AskUI is in the right place at the right time. The space for native integration is heating up, as people and businesses grow frustrated at automations that are unreliable and unintuitive.

While AskUI is one of the earlier movers in the space, there are some potential competitors apart from traditional automation companies. OpenAI recently acquired SKY, a company that is promising to integrate on a deep level with macOS.

This is where AskUI’s platform-agnostic approach gains real teeth, as it is designed to be truly cross-platform. AskUI is betting that enterprise adoption demands broad coverage and resilience instead of platform-specific optimization.

The Caesr.app preview brings this Vision Agent power to the non-technical user, turning complex, multi-application workflows into a simple chat prompt. While the early interface may still feel a bit clunky, the core promise is undeniable: a future where the only barrier to automation is your ability to describe the task.

I am excited about the movements in this space, and early movers such as AskUI are promising exciting years ahead with deep AI integrations across the board.