Executive Summary

Many knowledge workers (part of the 250M globally) still spend hours per week on repetitive cross-application desktop tasks like copy/paste, form-filling and ad-hoc reporting, and existing tools—macros, connector-heavy RPA, or manual scripting—are brittle and require engineering support. That leaves individual contributors and small teams with limited automation options and high time costs. You could build an AI agent that literally sees and controls the screen using multimodal vision+language models to identify UI elements, extract context, and execute cross-app workflows, delivered as a desktop client with a team dashboard, SDK and prebuilt templates. Architect it as a hybrid local/cloud system so sensitive screen data and inference run on-device while orchestration, model updates and team policies are managed in the cloud. The market is compelling today: an addressable opportunity of roughly $37.5B (250M knowledge workers × $150 ACV) combined with strong enterprise demand for actionable AI assistants and growing preference for privacy-preserving edge compute. Improvements in multimodal models are what make robust, general-purpose screen understanding commercially feasible now. You can differentiate by marrying state-of-the-art vision-language accuracy with on-device privacy, enterprise access controls and an SDK that minimizes connector maintenance, but be upfront that success requires solving hard engineering challenges around OS permissions, security/auditability, and resilience to frequent UI changes.

Market Opportunity

Automate cross-app desktop tasks by an AI agent that sees and controls your screen targets a $37.5B = 250M knowledge workers × $150 ACV (global/year) targeting personal and team automation spend total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 19% CAGR — enterprise automation and hyperautomation market growth (Gartner / IDC estimates).

Key trends driving demand: Multimodal models — improved vision+language models enable accurate screen understanding and contextual automation, which unlocks new classes of desktop automations.; Shift to AI-assistants — businesses expect AI that can act on behalf of users, creating demand for agents that can safely execute tasks.; Privacy and edge compute — demand for on-device processing grows as enterprises and users want sensitive screen data to remain local, favoring hybrid local/cloud architectures.; API fragmentation — many legacy and bespoke apps lack stable APIs, which increases demand for visual automation that interacts with the UI..

Key competitors include Zapier, UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, Raycast.

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Automate cross-app desktop tasks by an AI agent that sees and controls your screen

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