Short answer: Strawberry 1.0 is the first full release of the AI browser from Stockholm startup Strawberry, launched on 26 October 2026. Teams hire ready-made AI “companions” or build their own, let them work across tabs and connected apps on schedules, and share them with colleagues. It runs on macOS and Windows, with a free plan and paid plans from USD 20 a month.

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Strawberry 1.0: the AI browser where teams share agents

Key facts

What did Strawberry launch on 26 October 2026?

Stockholm-based Strawberry released Strawberry 1.0 on 26 October 2026, its first full version after about a year in beta (Strawberry). The product is a web browser with built-in AI assistants, which Strawberry calls companions, designed for people who do not write code: sales, marketing, recruiting and customer service teams who spend their day in browser tabs (The Next Web).

The launch landed well. Strawberry 1.0 finished first on Product Hunt’s daily leaderboard for 26 October (Product Hunt), and co-founder and CEO Charles Maddock’s launch post on X, which promises a browser that saves your team more than 100 hours a week, passed 1.1 million views within two days (X). Tech.eu and Sifted both covered the release as a European answer to the large US agent platforms (Tech.eu, Sifted).

How do Strawberry's AI companions work?

Hire one or build your own

You can hire one of nine ready-made Strawberry companions, such as Sales Sally or Talent Theo. Each arrives knowing its job, with the skills and routines for it, and spends the first chat learning how you work (Strawberry). Others on the homepage include Executive Ellis for morning briefs and follow-ups, Marketing Martin for posts in your voice and Consulting Cora for turning client calls into proposals (Strawberry). Version 1.0 also lets you design how each companion looks.

Working where the work already is

Because Strawberry is the browser itself, a companion can use the sites, tabs and logins you already have, plus connected apps such as Gmail, Slack and Notion (Strawberry pricing). Maddock’s reasoning is simple: most daily work happens in ten different tabs rather than ten files on a computer (Tech.eu). Companions can also read and edit files in a folder you choose, inside a sandbox (Strawberry).

Routines and parallel helpers

Companions can work on a schedule or start when a new email or sales lead arrives. For bigger jobs, such as researching 200 companies, one companion splits the work across several sub-agents running in parallel (The Next Web).

What is new for teams in version 1.0?

The headline change is sharing. A salesperson can train a companion to research prospects, reach out and log the details in the CRM, and colleagues can then use that same companion without starting from scratch (The Next Web). Sharing passes on the companion’s instructions, memories and skills, while each person keeps their own chat history (Strawberry docs). As Maddock put it, “Today the person who is great with Claude keeps all of it on their own laptop” (The Next Web); Strawberry wants that know-how to belong to the whole team.

Version 1.0 also brings a Meetings page that keeps recordings, transcripts and summaries together with decisions and action items, and a Library for everything companions produce (Strawberry). Calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams are recorded locally, so no bot has to join the meeting (The Next Web). Good matches on our site are the lead research before calls and candidate screening summary use cases, and the sales prospecting assistant, recruiting screener and meeting notes and follow-ups templates.

How much does Strawberry cost and how safe is it?

Strawberry is available for macOS and Windows. Browsing is always free; credits are only used when companions work. The Free plan includes 500 credits a month, Intern costs USD 20 a month for 6,000 credits, Part-Time USD 85 for 25,000 and Full-Time USD 250 for 75,000, with top-ups at USD 0.01 per credit. Every team includes three free seats, and Enterprise adds pooled credits and invoicing (Strawberry pricing).

On safety, you choose per app and per action what companions may do without asking, passwords are encrypted on your device, and Strawberry says it meets SOC 2 requirements and does not sell your data (Strawberry). Companions pause for approval before sending emails, publishing posts or changing records, and companies can keep customer data within the EU (The Next Web). One detail to know: sharing a companion currently grants edit access to its settings, memories and skills (Strawberry docs).

Who is behind Strawberry?

Strawberry was founded in 2023 by Charles Maddock (CEO), Sebastian Thunman (COO) and Arian Hanifi (CTO) and has a team of 12 in Stockholm (Tech.eu). It raised USD 6 million in October 2025 in a round co-led by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures, with the founders of Lovable, Supabase and Hugging Face also investing (The Next Web). The browser is model agnostic, and named business users include Lovable, which uses it to source engineers, and Tandem Health (Tech.eu); the Product Hunt listing adds ElevenLabs (Product Hunt). Maddock said Strawberry plans a Series A as it scales across Europe and the US (Tech.eu). Customer counts and revenue have not been published.

How does Strawberry compare with Claude Cowork and Grok Bot?

Maddock told Tech.eu that Strawberry competes much more with the big agent platforms such as Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot and Gemini than with other AI browsers (Tech.eu). Claude Cowork is Anthropic’s desktop agent for knowledge work that works across files and tools on paid Claude plans (Anthropic). Grok Bot runs always-on agents on their own cloud computer that sign into your tools (SpaceXAI). Strawberry’s angle is the browser on your own device, shareable team companions and a free entry plan.

See Strawberry vs Claude Cowork and Strawberry vs Grok Bot for side-by-side facts, and our business vs personal agents guide for the bigger picture.

What should you watch next?

The next test is whether companions trained by one person keep doing reliable work for a whole team without adding more oversight than they save, a point The Next Web also raises (The Next Web). Watch for the Series A, more ready-made companions, new app connections and any mobile or Linux version, none of which has been announced. We will keep the Strawberry profile up to date as facts are confirmed, and you can follow related launches such as ThoughtSpot’s AgentSpot in our news section.

Timeline: how did we get here?

Agent snapshot: what do we know so far?

Facts below come from the agent profiles in our directory, each linked to its source.

Strawberry at a glance

Full Strawberry profile

Claude Cowork at a glance

Full Claude Cowork profile

Grok Bot at a glance

Full Grok Bot profile

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Agents in this story

Strawberry

business agent

An AI browser for non-technical teams: you hire or build AI 'companions' that work in your tabs and connected apps on sales, recruiting, marketing and research jobs, run on schedules, and can be shared with the whole team.

Claude Cowork

business agent

Agentic workspace for non-coding knowledge work: give it a goal and it works across your files and tools.

Grok Bot

business agent

Always-on agents ('AI teammates') with their own cloud computer that sign into your tools and work across apps and inboxes.

Frequently asked questions

What is Strawberry 1.0?

Strawberry 1.0 is the first full release of Strawberry's AI browser, launched on 26 October 2026. It lets teams hire or build AI companions that work in their tabs and apps and share them with colleagues.

Is Strawberry free?

Yes, there is a free plan with 500 credits a month. Paid plans cost USD 20, 85 and 250 a month, and browsing itself never uses credits.

Which platforms does Strawberry support?

Strawberry is available as a desktop browser for macOS and Windows.

Does Strawberry act without asking?

You set per app and per action what companions may do on their own, and they pause for approval before sending emails, publishing posts or changing records.

Who makes Strawberry?

A 12-person startup in Stockholm founded in 2023 by Charles Maddock, Sebastian Thunman and Arian Hanifi, backed by General Catalyst and EQT Ventures.

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