Use cases
For professionals, small teams and operations departments alike: the necessary, repetitive work that fills a week. Here is what people hand over first.
A common first task · Small business & retail
Every month someone exports orders from the online store, rebuilds the same workbook by hand, and emails it to the accountant.
DutyCaptain fetches the orders through the store’s own connection, analyses them, builds and checks the workbook, and waits for one approval before emailing it. Scheduled, it runs on the first of each month without being asked.
Plan the task
DutyCaptain
Fetch last month’s orders
Connected service
Analyse the orders
Built-in tools
Build the workbook
Built-in tools
Check the workbook
Reopened and confirmed
Format charts in Excel
Your computer
Await approval
You
Email to accountant
Connected service
One instruction · eight steps · one approval · every step checked and recorded.
Each of these is one routine someone does by hand today, reached by whichever route suits it best.
Finance & administration
Supplier invoices sit as PDFs and scans in a Documents folder, and totals are re-keyed into a spreadsheet by hand.
The companion program searches only the folder you permit, reads each invoice on your computer, and returns the figures rather than the documents. The totals are checked against what was read.
Retail & e-commerce
Competitors’ prices are checked by opening their websites one product at a time.
A cloud browser visits each page and reads prices from the page’s structure rather than its appearance. Large movements are flagged for review before anything in your store changes.
Operations
Some work lives in software with no website and no connection — an accounting package, a desktop spreadsheet, an older internal tool.
On your computer, DutyCaptain asks the application for its buttons and fields by name and presses them directly, then reads back the result. It works even when the window is not in front of you.
Regulated & government filings
Some portals only work from a computer with a particular certificate installed, or from inside the office network.
DutyCaptain notices the portal needs your computer, pauses the task, and resumes it from the same step once your computer is available — rather than failing.
The tasks that suit DutyCaptain best share a shape. If three of these are true, it is worth trying.
We will tell you honestly whether DutyCaptain suits it, and set it up with you during early access.