Hi HN, we’re Alan and Akshay from Pomerado (https://pomerado.ai/). We connect your agents to any website by turning sites into deterministic, self-healing APIs in minutes, fully self-serve.Agents are no longer limited by their intelligence, but rather by their ability to interact with systems. Airlines, banks, e-commerce, insurance portals, government sites, and legacy portals all lack APIs or MCPs and are common parts of personal assistant or business workflows. Agents instead rely on browser automation or computer use, which can be slow, expensive, and unreliable. And even if computer use were perfect, most companies have banned it out of security and compliance concerns.We discovered this problem while tinkering with our own personal assistants. When OpenClaw came out, we wanted to “live our lives through our agents” and have them do everything for us. We soon found their usefulness was restricted by what tools they could connect to. For example, when trying to book flights, they fell back on computer use, which failed to checkout. These issues got magnified on repeated workflows, like searching many airlines at once.Pomerado started off as a project to improve these personal assistant workflows. As we started building, we realized that just-in-time tool creation could have significant applications for AI builders in legacy verticals.We’re ex-McKinsey and Scale AI, where we drove agent deployments in healthcare, professional services, and telecom. Each time, the biggest bottleneck was getting agents to interface well with legacy websites and apps.Pomerado is what we built. It’s a self-serve platform where devs can create APIs for any website (even those they don’t own), in minutes. Users (or their coding agents) provide a short natural language description, answer a few questions about their workflow, and receive a MCP in less than an hour. Future tool calls use the deterministic MCP, which usually returns results in 5-30 seconds.Here’s a walkthrough of our product: https://youtu.be/Bi4jci7rgHoIn practice:- Our agent opens a browser, explores the website, and performs the requested task once by writing HTTP requests or a Playwright script. This example run establishes how to navigate the website, interact with the relevant controls, and obtain the desired result. If any additional user input is needed (e.g., login, clarification) the agent will ask the user over MCP.- Afterwards, the agent uses the example run, along with all of the data it recorded, to create a generalizable and repeatable API. Throughout this process, a separate Guardian model reviews the coding agent’s calls against a set of guardrails. We also run a battery of tests with synthetic inputs to ensure that the API is generalized and not overfit to one input. A final publication agent ensures that the integration publishes a reasonable and generalized inpu
Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents
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Pomerado, a YC F26 startup, turns websites into APIs for agents, enabling faster and reliable interactions with legacy systems.
- Pomerado creates self-healing APIs for any website in minutes.
- It helps agents interact with systems that lack APIs or MCPs.
- Users can get a MCP in under an hour via natural language input.
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