Coasty

Portal-based work that never got an API — insurance submissions, freight POD collection, payroll reconciliation — normally means a person doing repetitive clicks across a dozen tabs. Coasty is an AI agent that takes over that click-ops layer by reading the screen, planning the next action, executing it, and verifying the result before moving on. It handles the full loop: browse to the portal, authenticate, extract or enter data, confirm the outcome, and move to the next step. The vendor describes workflows running for hundreds of steps across real applications, which covers the kind of multi-portal, multi-system tasks that break simpler automation after the third or fourth handoff.

The core differentiator is UI resilience. Where traditional RPA scripts a fixed set of selectors and fails the moment a vendor redesigns their portal, Coasty reads the current screen state at each step and replans. The vendor states the agent recovers on its own when the UI changes — no human intervention, no re-scripting. For regulated industries where portals update frequently and downtime in the automation means missed deadlines, that self-recovery property is the deciding factor over legacy RPA tooling.

Coasty fits best when your systems have no API and your team’s bottleneck is the manual portal grind: insurance agencies quoting across 20 carriers, freight back offices pulling PODs from carrier portals that never built an API, MSP teams offboarding users across every tenant console. It does not fit when your target system offers a direct API and your workflow is high-frequency or latency-sensitive — screen reading adds execution overhead that a native integration eliminates. Teams with complex conditional branching across many agents also report that the visual execution model has limits; at sufficient complexity, a custom code layer becomes necessary alongside the agent.

For developers, the vendor exposes a computer-use API at /v1/predict: send a screenshot, receive the next action as structured JSON, and execute it in your own environment. A free sandbox key is available, with paid-only access to the full Unlimited tier for production workloads. Self-hosting is not offered; the agent runs on Coasty’s infrastructure, which is a consideration for teams in environments with strict data residency requirements.