Overview
Polar is an agentic-browser for knowledge-work automation built by recursive-intelligence. Chromium fork that operates in users’ logged-in sessions for multi-hour unsupervised web workflows. Positioned as a task/side browser, not a daily driver.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-29: Announced $5.7M seed led by madrona; angels include thomas-dohmke, Erik Bernhardsson (modal-labs), others (2026-08-02-techcrunch-polar-5-7m-seed, 2026-08-02-businesswire-polar-5-7m-seed)
- Pricing: free with daily credits; subscriptions from $20/month (TechCrunch)
- Company claims: 4.5M+ actions, 15+ hour runs, benchmark wins vs OpenAI/Anthropic — self-reported
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- recursive-intelligence
- kevin-jiang
- agentic-browser
- perplexity
- computer-use
- madrona
- modal-labs
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