PinchTab is positioned as a lightweight, faster, and more portable alternative to Playwright, specifically optimized for the constraints of AI token usage and agentic reasoning.

Leadership

Founders

Luigi Agosti

Founder and Lead Maintainer. Co-Founder of Tengio Ltd (London-based software studio). Previous roles include Partner at Kadalu Investments and experience with GlusterFS and native mobile app development.

Executive Team

Luigi Agosti

Founder

London-based entrepreneur and software architect; Co-Founder of Tengio Ltd.

Founding Story

Frustrated by the high token usage and heavy dependencies of Playwright and Selenium when used with LLMs, Luigi Agosti built a minimal Go binary to treat the web as a semantic map for agents.

Business Model

Revenue Model

Primarily Open Source (MIT License). Potential for enterprise support, managed hosting, or professional services via parent company Tengio Ltd.

Pricing Tiers

Open Source / Community

Free

Free to use under the MIT License. Includes local binary and documentation.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

AI Engineers
Developer Tools
Agentic Workflow Startups

Use Cases

AI Agents for web navigation
Low-overhead web scraping
Automated software testing
Synthetic data generation
Framework-agnostic browser automation

Notable Customers

Open Source Community
OpenClaw users
Hermes Agent developers

Quick Facts

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2026

Entity Type

Ltd

Employees

Total Funding

Self-funded (Bootstrapped via Tengio Ltd)

Investors

Luigi Agosti

Office Locations

London

Bangalore

History & Milestones

February 2026

Official launch of PinchTab as an open-source project, providing a 12MB Go binary for AI-to-browser communication.

March 2026

Featured on Hacker News and Dataconomy; recognized as a leading tool for the emerging 'OpenClaw' AI ecosystem.

March 2026

Reached over 5,000 GitHub stars within the first month of public release.

April 2026

Implemented advanced 'Deep Stealth' mode to parity with anti-bot bypass capabilities of tools like nodriver.

April 2026

Resolved critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-33619 through CVE-2026-33623) in the v0.8 release cycle.

Key Capabilities

12MB Standalone Binary

Zero Dependencies

Plain HTTP API (curl compatible)

Advanced Stealth Injection

Multi-instance Orchestrator

Low Token Consumption (approx. 800 tokens per page)

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

Claude Code
OpenClaw
OpenAI Assistant API
Docker
Go
Python

Key Partnerships

OpenClaw Ecosystem

Tengio Ltd

Nvidia (ecosystem partner)

Connect

Website

pinchtab.com/

GitHub

pinchtab

AI Topics

PinchTab focuses on these topics:

Browser Automation(1)

Autonomous Systems(1)

MCP Servers(1)

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PinchTab

To eliminate the 'browser bottleneck' for AI agents by providing a tiny, high-performance, and token-efficient control layer for web navigation.

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London, United KingdomHeadquarters

2026Est.

5Employees

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AI Browser Control for Agents

Browser Automation Autonomous Systems MCP Servers

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Latest News

03/04/2026

PinchTab: The next big leap in AI browser control after OpenClaw

dataconomy.com

04/15/2026

PinchTab v0.8.4 Released with Windows-only vulnerability fixes

nvd.nist.gov

04/01/2026

I Tested Every Browser Automation Tool for Claude Code: PinchTab Wins on Portability

dev.to

03/01/2026

Jensen Huang reveals OpenClaw partnership featuring PinchTab-style integrations

linkedin.com

Products & Services

PinchTab Binary

February 2026

A standalone, high-performance HTTP server (Go binary) that allows AI agents to control Chrome instances with minimal resource and token overhead.

PinchTab Docker Image

2026

A containerized version of PinchTab bundled with Chromium for easy cloud and server-side deployment.

Market Position

PinchTab is positioned as a lightweight, faster, and more portable alternative to Playwright, specifically optimized for the constraints of AI token usage and agentic reasoning.

Leadership

Founders

Luigi Agosti

Executive Team

Luigi Agosti

Founder

London-based entrepreneur and software architect; Co-Founder of Tengio Ltd.

Founding Story

Frustrated by the high token usage and heavy dependencies of Playwright and Selenium when used with LLMs, Luigi Agosti built a minimal Go binary to treat the web as a semantic map for agents.

Business Model

Revenue Model

Primarily Open Source (MIT License). Potential for enterprise support, managed hosting, or professional services via parent company Tengio Ltd.

Pricing Tiers

Open Source / Community

Free

Free to use under the MIT License. Includes local binary and documentation.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

AI Engineers
Developer Tools
Agentic Workflow Startups

Use Cases

AI Agents for web navigation
Low-overhead web scraping
Automated software testing
Synthetic data generation
Framework-agnostic browser automation

Notable Customers

Open Source Community
OpenClaw users
Hermes Agent developers

Quick Facts

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2026

Entity Type

Ltd

Employees

Total Funding

Self-funded (Bootstrapped via Tengio Ltd)

Investors

Luigi Agosti

Office Locations

London

Bangalore

History & Milestones

February 2026

Official launch of PinchTab as an open-source project, providing a 12MB Go binary for AI-to-browser communication.

March 2026

Featured on Hacker News and Dataconomy; recognized as a leading tool for the emerging 'OpenClaw' AI ecosystem.

March 2026

Reached over 5,000 GitHub stars within the first month of public release.

April 2026

Implemented advanced 'Deep Stealth' mode to parity with anti-bot bypass capabilities of tools like nodriver.

April 2026

Resolved critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-33619 through CVE-2026-33623) in the v0.8 release cycle.

Key Capabilities

12MB Standalone Binary

Zero Dependencies

Plain HTTP API (curl compatible)

Advanced Stealth Injection

Multi-instance Orchestrator

Low Token Consumption (approx. 800 tokens per page)

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

Claude Code
OpenClaw
OpenAI Assistant API
Docker
Go
Python

Key Partnerships

OpenClaw Ecosystem

Tengio Ltd

Nvidia (ecosystem partner)

Connect

Website

pinchtab.com/

GitHub

pinchtab

AI Topics

PinchTab focuses on these topics:

Browser Automation(1)

Autonomous Systems(1)

MCP Servers(1)

Back to all developers