Hand off the web chore that eats your afternoon
You know the job. It isn't hard, it's just long. Twenty tabs open, the same filters set on every site, a sign-in halfway through, and a note you keep pasting into. Then someone asks you to show your work, and you go back to take the screenshots you should have taken the first time.
You could spend the afternoon on it, or you could keep putting it off. Falef is for a third option: say what you need once, in your own words, and watch an AI agent do the clicking in its own private browser, explaining each move as it goes.
Here is what that looks like when the job is a big one.
When the job is too long to babysit
Short answers are easy to get from a chat. The trouble is the work that takes dozens of pages: going through a long checklist, trying the same thing on one site after another, or testing every path through a sign-up.
A single errand, which is one message you send Falef, can now take up to 300 hops over about an hour and a half. A hop is one move, such as opening a page or clicking a button. You can leave it working and come back to the answer. If you see it going the wrong way, pause it or stop it.
An errand costs one credit however many hops it takes, up to that limit. See what errands cost on the pricing page.
When you need to show what you found
An answer you can't check is only half done, especially when you have to pass it to a client, a developer or your boss. Now you can ask for proof in the same breath as the work:
Compare the annual price of these five tools on their own pricing pages, and take a screenshot of each one.
Asking makes the pictures part of the job, and Falef chooses the moments that show what you asked about. You can name those moments, or leave the choice to it. It saves up to 40 for an errand and puts them under the answer. Download any one of them, or all of them at once as a zip. They stay private to you and are deleted after 7 days, so save the ones you want to keep.
Every finished answer also lists the websites Falef opened, taken from its own record of the errand. If a site looks like it stopped the agent with a robot check, the list says so.
When the site wants your password
This is where most automation leaves you stuck: the useful page is behind a sign-in, and you don't want to hand your password to anyone.
When Falef reaches a sign-in, a new account form or a verification code, it stops and asks for you. Press Take over and you are using its browser directly. You type your own details, and it reads nothing while you do. When you are finished, it carries on from the page you left it on.
When the answer is on page 57 of a PDF
Tender documents, policies and contracts bury the one line you need. Falef can open a long PDF or Word file, search it, and read the pages that matter. Ask it to give the page number beside each requirement, then check the ones you are going to rely on. Our own tests with long tenders were good but not consistent, which is why that page number matters.
When you do the same errand every week
If you keep typing the same request, save it as a saved errand with the websites it should look at first, and start it again with one press. You can also attach images to any message, so Falef can work from a photo or put a file into a site's upload form.
How to ask for a long job so it gets finished
We learned this one by testing. We gave Falef a long product test: numbered instructions, followed by an open-ended line asking it to try to break things. It finished the numbered parts and left the open-ended part undone, even with hops to spare. It treats a clear list as the job, so write the job as a clear list:
- Say what done looks like. "Test 3 edits" beats "test a few".
- Turn hopes into items. "Try a vague instruction, then one with three changes at once" beats "try to break it".
- Ask what it didn't do. End with "list anything you didn't get to", so a gap can't pass as a finished job.
- Split the very big ones. Send each part as its own message in the same task. It picks up from where it was.
What it still won't do for you
- It can misread a page. Check anything important before you act on it. That is what the screenshots and the list of websites are for.
- Some sites block automated browsers. When one does, try naming another site for the same information.
Where to begin
Pick the chore you have been avoiding, and write it down the way you would brief a careful assistant. If you want a starting point, see how to collect a list from behind search filters or check official pages that keep changing.
This post was written with help from AI, and we checked what it says against how Falef works on the day it was published. The example asks show how to phrase a job, and they aren't results.