How to Build Financial Agents That Work Across the Web - Jay Sahnan & Arik Bird, Browserbase

Some of the most important financial data sits behind logins and anti-bot walls, with no API. Jay Sahnan and Arik Bird of Browserbase show how browser agents solve this through three case studies: Ramp fetching receipts at scale (over 30,000 manual hours saved), Bill paying across thousands of different vendor portals with one agent, and Stripe automating KYC checks. They also cover how Browserbase forked Chromium to run reliably in the cloud, and how Stagehand's act, extract and observe primitives keep automations from breaking when sites change. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:27 What is a browser agent? 01:37 Ramp, Bill and Stripe: data on the hardest-to-reach web 02:13 Ramp: fetching receipts at scale 03:34 Why browsers get blocked in the data center 06:03 Forking Chromium for the cloud 07:49 Demo: 100 browsers at once 10:11 Bill: one agent, thousands of portals 11:08 Stagehand vs Playwright 14:52 Stripe: automating KYC 15:52 Act, extract and observe 16:35 Demo: researching 20 companies in parallel Jay Sahnan, Browserbase Arik Bird, Browserbase Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!