Web Browsing

LouEllen can navigate websites, click through pages, fill out forms, and extract information — just like a person using a browser.

This feature is experimental. Web browsing is powerful but new. We strongly recommend reviewing the agent's actions as they happen and being cautious with any form submissions. As with any AI tool, you are responsible for what gets submitted on your behalf.

What You Can Do

Basic — Retrieve Information

Ask the agent to visit a foundation's website and find application details.

"Go to the OnPoint Community Foundation website and find the application questions for their spring grant cycle. Just grab whatever's publicly available."

The agent will navigate the site, read through pages, and extract the information you need.

Intermediate — Interact with Portals

Where a portal wants an account, that account is yours to make, not the agent's. LouEllen will not sign your organization up for anything, and some portals ban it outright. Say what you want and the work goes as far as it can without you, then the browser gets passed to you for the part that needs you.

"Go to the Riverdale Foundation's grant portal and find the application questions. If it needs an account or a sign-in, hand me the browser and I'll do that bit, then carry on."

Advanced — Pre-fill Applications

Combine web browsing with your completed grant application.

"We just finished writing our application for the Community Health Grant, and I've already set up a portal account. Go to the portal and hand me the browser so I can sign in, then pre-fill the application form with our responses. Do not click the submit button under any circumstances."

You sign in once, in LouEllen's browser, and the work continues in that same signed-in session for the rest of the task. You'll never be asked to type a password into the chat.

When It Needs You

Some things on a website only a person can do: a sign-in, a code texted to your phone, a "prove you are human" check, an account that has to be opened in your organization's name. Rather than guessing, LouEllen stops and hands the computer to you for a moment, then picks up in that same browser when you give it back. See When the Agent Hands You Its Computer.

Important Guidelines

  • The submit click is always yours. LouEllen fills the form, stops at the review page, and hands you the browser so you can check it and press submit yourself
  • Be explicit about boundaries — Spell out what's allowed and what isn't: "don't submit anything," "stop after filling out the form"
  • Start small — Try simple tasks first (finding publicly available information) before moving to portal interactions
  • Handle portal logins carefully — Where a portal needs an account, prefer one set up for this purpose over a personal or shared login, and sign in through a browser handoff rather than typing credentials into chat. Anything you type into the chat is stored with the conversation

Tips

  • Web browsing works especially well for foundations that use online application portals like Benevity, Submittable, or custom forms
  • You can combine browsing with prospecting: "Look at the top 3 foundations on my list and see if you can find their application questions from their websites"
  • The agent will show you what it's doing as it browses — you'll see actions like "Navigating," "Clicking," "Typing," and "Reading Page" in the chat