Automate the browser workflow your team already hates.
One ugly no-API workflow becomes a scheduled run with a clean output and a clear failure signal.
Portal Runner takes one repeated browser task — report downloads, availability checks, recurring submissions, or client-portal retrieval — and turns it into a fixed-scope automation instead of a broad platform project.
- Vendor and client portal operators
- Permit or appointment workflow teams
- Recruiting and procurement teams
- Ops groups doing repeated report pulls
What changes
- Less repetitive clicking
- Fewer missed checks or downloads
- Cleaner scheduled output
- Alerts when the portal changes or fails
The strongest portal automations are not broad. They are painfully specific and tightly scoped.
Manual portal loop
Someone logs in, clicks through a fixed path, pulls the file or data, and copies the result somewhere else every day or every week.
One clean automated run
The system logs in, runs the workflow, delivers the output, and only asks for attention if the portal breaks or changes.
Painfully specific beats broad
One exact workflow. One clear output. One clear business value story. That is the sale.
One portal. One path. One finished output.
1. Log in
The system authenticates into the target portal.
2. Navigate
It follows the exact clicks and steps the human currently repeats.
3. Extract
It downloads or captures the needed file or data.
4. Deliver
The result lands in CSV, PDF, folder output, or a message channel with alerts on failure.
- Vendor report downloads
- Permit or appointment checking
- Client-portal document retrieval
- Procurement or recruiting board monitoring
- CSV exports
- PDF or report files
- Folder drops
- Telegram or Slack alerts
- Status messages
- Start with lower-change portals
- Price maintenance separately
- Use retries and alerting
- Scope around one exact workflow
Narrow setup pricing with optional maintenance.
- One portal
- One exact task
- One output format
- Basic alerts
- One production-ready workflow
- Retries and alerting
- Cleaner output delivery
- Tuning rounds
Optional maintenance
$100–$400/mo when the portal is likely to drift and the buyer wants selector fixes, retry tuning, or light monitoring included.
The honest answers buyers will want.
What if the portal changes?
That is exactly why maintenance is priced separately for fragile portals.
Can this do everything in the portal?
No. The best automations are tightly scoped. One exact workflow is the point.
Is this RPA consulting?
Not really. It is a fixed-scope automation for one repeated workflow, not a broad automation program.
What is the best first demo?
Get a screen recording of the manual workflow and show the system reproducing it cleanly from login to delivered output.
Start with a screen recording of the manual workflow.
That makes it obvious whether the task is bounded enough to sell and build. From there, scope the smallest paid pilot that reproduces the workflow cleanly.
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