Forward Deployed: The State of Computer Use Agents
Agents can already write code and answer questions. The real frontier is letting them use a computer — seeing the screen, moving the cursor, clicking through apps, and navigating the web the way a person does.
Join the people building that future — from the frontier lab that pioneered computer use to the infrastructure teams making web agents fast and reliable at scale — for an unfiltered conversation on where computer use agents work today, where they still break, and what's next.
🎤 🎤 🎤 SPEAKERS 🎤 🎤 🎤
REAGAN HSU | Founding Engineer @ Browser Use | $17M Raised
Browser Use is the most popular framework for deploying state of the art web agents and stealth browsers at scale. Beginning as an open-source framework for web agents, it is now accrued 100k+ GitHub stars, and is one of the fastest-growing OSS AI projects ever.
Website: Browser UseLUCAS GONZALEZ PAGLIERE | MTS, Computer Use @ Anthropic
Anthropic pioneered computer use — giving Claude the ability to move a cursor, click, type, and operate software like a human. Lucas leads product for the team building it, at the frontier of what general-purpose agents can actually do.CATHERINE JUE | Co-founder @ Kernel | $22M Raised
When an agent needs to use the web, something has to run the browser — reliably, at scale, in the cloud. Kernel is that layer: it spins up browsers in milliseconds and keeps sessions alive across workflows so agents feel continuous instead of stateless. Backed by Accel, YC, and angels like Paul Graham and Docker's Solomon Hykes.
🏠 HOSTED BY FORWARD DEPLOYED
Forward Deployed is an AI-Native startup building agentic products for PE portfolio companies, Insurers, and other Enterprise teams. We also host fireside chats and podcasts with operators at the forefront of forward deployed engineering.
📅 Wed, July 22nd, 6-8:30pm PT
📍 Super secret, San Francisco
🎟 Seats are limited
✌️ Hosted at the Founders Cafe, AngelList's founder community and co-working space on the first floor of AngelList HQ. Apply here. This event is also made possible by The AI Collective.