Virtual Participant
As AI-driven automation evolves, businesses and developers need more than just API-based controls, they require a flexible, interactive, and secure way to automate workflows without compromising security or usability.
What is a Virtual Participant?
Section titled “What is a Virtual Participant?”Webfuse’s Virtual Participant introduces a groundbreaking capability: the ability to add an AI-driven remote browser as a Session participant, allowing secure, interactive, and isolated automation. Unlike traditional automation that runs directly on the user’s machine, this method ensures stronger security, better collaboration, and fully isolated execution environments.
Key Features
Section titled “Key Features”A Virtual Participant can be leveraged for many purposes. Find below a few indentified key features of the Virtual Participant.
Hide API Calls
Section titled “Hide API Calls”Traditional browser automation exposes API keys when executed on a user?s machine, creating security risks. With Virtual Participant, automation tasks run inside an isolated Webfuse instance, protecting sensitive API credentials while allowing secure interactions with external endpoints.
Communicate with AI
Section titled “Communicate with AI”Because the Virtual Participant is an actual Session participant, it can interact with real users in the same Session. This enables:
- Chat-based assistance where AI and human users collaborate on content.
- On-screen annotations to guide users without modifying the actual web application.
- Masked data interactions, ensuring that sensitive user inputs (e.g., personal details) are hidden from the AI agent.
Parallelize Work with AI
Section titled “Parallelize Work with AI”In some cases, an AI-driven Virtual Participant can operate independently, executing full end-to-end workflows inside a Webfuse Virtual Web Session. This enables:
- Automated data entry and retrieval (e.g., an AI filling forms, submitting reports, or extracting information).
- Automated compliance monitoring, ensuring websites adhere to policies and regulations without human intervention.
- AI-driven regression testing, where a Virtual Participant repeatedly interacts with a website to test functionality.
Getting Started
Section titled “Getting Started”Enable the Virtual Participant App in the Space Session editor