{"slug": "pomerado-wants-agents-to-stop-clicking-through-websites-and-call-an-api-instead", "title": "Pomerado wants agents to stop clicking through websites and call an API instead", "summary": "Akshay Manglik and Alan Ma are building Pomerado, a startup that mints deterministic APIs from legacy portals and consumer websites so AI agents can call an API instead of clicking through pages, with an open-source core and hosted cloud offering. In their Y Combinator launch post, the co-founders said they were forward-deployed with Fortune 500 companies in finance, healthcare and software, including organizations like the Mayo Clinic, and that integrations with legacy systems became a major bottleneck for agent builds. Pomerado's pitch targets the reasoning cost and fragility browser agents incur on every run, aiming to give agent teams a cheaper path into industry portals without waiting for vendors to ship APIs.", "body_md": "# Pomerado wants agents to stop clicking through websites and call an API instead\n\n**Akshay Manglik and Alan Ma are building Pomerado to mint deterministic APIs from legacy portals and consumer sites, with an open-source core and hosted cloud.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [Hacker News](https://pomerado.ai/)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nBrowser agents pay reasoning cost and fragility on every run. If Pomerado's minted integrations stay reliable after sites change, teams building agents for healthcare, finance, insurance and internal operations get a cheaper path into the portals that still run those industries, without waiting for each vendor to ship an API.\n\nAkshay Manglik and Alan Ma are building [Pomerado](https://pomerado.ai/?ref=runtimewire) for websites that have no API for an agent to call. In their [Y Combinator launch post](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/WSd-pomerado-the-faster-cheaper-and-more-reliable-alternative-to-browser-use?ref=runtimewire), the co-founders wrote that they were forward-deployed with Fortune 500 companies in finance, healthcare and software, including organizations like the Mayo Clinic, and that integrations with legacy systems became a major bottleneck for agent builds.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pomerado-wants-agents-to-stop-clicking-through-websites-and-call-an-api-instead", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/pomerado-website-to-mcp-agents", "published_at": "2026-11-11 18:24:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 21:52:20.323793+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-startups", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Pomerado", "Akshay Manglik", "Alan Ma", "Y Combinator", "Mayo Clinic"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pomerado-wants-agents-to-stop-clicking-through-websites-and-call-an-api-instead", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pomerado-wants-agents-to-stop-clicking-through-websites-and-call-an-api-instead.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pomerado-wants-agents-to-stop-clicking-through-websites-and-call-an-api-instead.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pomerado-wants-agents-to-stop-clicking-through-websites-and-call-an-api-instead.jsonld"}}