Date: 30.10.2025 (2025-10-30)
Jonas Menesklou (30.10.2025) • https://www.linkedin.com/in/menesklou/ • Founder AskUI (4 years; 20 ppl) • Enable AI to control your desktop, mobile and HMI devices.
Questions: • Pitch my UI as an API solution first - emphasize we are early! • Feedback to pitch? • Their Most successful use cases? • Plan for the future? • Focus desktop vs. browser?
• Do not build their own models
• They did it earlier
• Large LLMs are better than own models
• AskUI:
• HC: a lot has to run locally
• Intro:
• Built a library Vision and Icon Identifier
• AgentOS
• Controller for desktop
• Multi display
• Passworteingabe
• Can be connected
• Linux, MSFT, iOS, Android -> open source
• I can test it
• Single step automation
• Main use cases:
• A lot of test automation for different cases
• Reliability of models was not there
• LLMs are limited with large desktop context - e.g. SAP
• Getting people away from classic RPA
• Data extraction of documents is an important use case
• They also have RPA in their tool and API
• Order entry, data extraction etc.
• LLM opened tab via Command Tab
• Caesar is for quick automation
• Liability at big screens is a problem
• A lot of customers want to use their own models
• Deterministic vs. LLM
• Most people want LLM features except people want to have a very standardised workflow
• They do Caching -> there are different ways to do it
• Typical they cash positions
• They use Playwright
• Visual regression library to compare screenshots (pixel based comparison)
• They want to do it on C++ level for performance
• They work mainly with enterprises -> 10k+
• Speed of automations is a problem & reliability
• They Focus on QA