ActivepiecesAI Workflow Automation
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MIT-licensed open-source automation with per-flow pricing instead of per-task, plus AI agents, MCP support and free unlimited self-hosting.
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FreemiumBrowser-native AI automation that scrapes pages, enriches records and runs playbooks directly inside Chrome for sales and recruiting teams.
What is Bardeen?
Bardeen is an AI automation tool that lives in your browser rather than on a server, which makes it fundamentally different from server-side platforms like Zapier or Make. Because it runs as a Chrome extension with access to whatever page you are looking at, Bardeen can scrape LinkedIn profiles, extract table data from web apps that have no API, fill forms and click through interfaces on your behalf. Its playbooks are prebuilt automation recipes covering common go-to-market motions such as pulling a list of prospects, enriching them with company data and pushing them into a CRM. Magic Box, the AI builder, takes a plain-English description of what you want and assembles the playbook for you. Bardeen runs on credits, where standard actions cost one credit per row and enrichment costs more, which means the headline price matters less than your actual monthly row volume. It is best understood as a GTM data automation assistant rather than a general-purpose workflow engine.
Key Features
Browser AutomationWeb ScrapingMagic Box Builder1,000+ PlaybooksLinkedIn ScrapingData EnrichmentAutobooks TriggersScheduled RunsLocal ProcessingCRM SyncForm FillingAI Text GenerationScreenshot CaptureGoogle Sheets ExportChrome ExtensionTeam Playbook SharingScraper TemplatesAdmin Controls
Integrations
Social Media
LinkedIn
CRM
HubSpotSalesforcePipedrive
Data & Spreadsheets
Google Sheets
Writing & Docs
Notion
Communication
SlackGmail
Database
Airtable
Other
OpenAI
How to Use Bardeen
1Install the Bardeen Chrome extension
2Sign in and connect your apps
3Browse the playbook library or describe a task in Magic Box
4Configure the scraper on a live web page
5Choose where output should be sent
6Run the playbook manually to verify results
7Set a trigger or schedule for automatic runs
✅ Best For
- Sales development reps and recruiters who spend hours copying prospect data from LinkedIn and web directories into a CRM or spreadsheet
- Growth marketers who need to pull structured data from websites and SaaS dashboards that expose no public API
- Solo operators and small GTM teams who want prebuilt playbooks rather than building automation logic from scratch
- Anyone whose bottleneck is browser-based repetitive work such as scraping, form filling and record enrichment rather than server-side app syncing
❌ Not For
- Teams needing server-side automations that run reliably when your laptop is closed, since much of Bardeen's power depends on the browser being open
- Companies wanting a general-purpose workflow engine with routers, loops and error handling across hundreds of backend systems
- Users who need verified contact data at scale, because enrichment credits are consumed fast and Bardeen is not a dedicated data provider
- Organisations with strict policies against browser scraping of platforms like LinkedIn, which may conflict with those platforms' terms
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Pricing
Free$0
- ✓100 credits/month
- ✓core playbooks
- ✓browser scraping
Professional$10/mo
- ✓Scheduled automations
- ✓premium integrations
- ✓AI actions
- ✓more credits
Business$15/user/mo
- ✓Shared playbooks
- ✓admin controls
- ✓team analytics
- ✓priority support
EnterpriseCustom
- ✓Custom credit volume
- ✓security review
- ✓dedicated onboarding
Prompts to Try
Scrape the names, titles and company URLs from this LinkedIn search and send them to Google Sheets
Enrich every row in this spreadsheet with company size and industry
Every Monday, pull new job postings from this careers page and email me a summary
Extract the pricing table from this competitor page and append it to my Airtable base
Use Cases
Sanjay is an SDR at a cybersecurity startup and used to spend 90 minutes a day copying LinkedIn prospects into HubSpot. A Bardeen playbook now scrapes and enriches 50 prospects in four minutes, giving him an extra hour of live calling every day.
Ellie recruits for a design agency and built a playbook that scrapes portfolio sites from a curated list, extracts contact emails and drops everything into Airtable, cutting her sourcing time per role from two days to three hours.
Hugo runs competitive intelligence at a DTC brand. His scheduled Bardeen scraper checks eight competitor pricing pages every morning and logs changes to a Google Sheet, so his team spotted a rival's 20 percent price drop within hours instead of weeks.
Farida, a freelance market researcher, used Magic Box to describe a scraping task in plain English and had a working playbook pulling 300 directory listings into a spreadsheet before her coffee went cold.
Owen manages partnerships at a fintech and uses Bardeen to enrich every inbound partner application with company headcount and funding data automatically, so his weekly review meeting starts with context instead of guesswork.
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