ArcStrawberry vs Arc
Arc is a browser you remix. Its help centre calls Boosts a new way to edit and remix your internet. Changing how a page looks does not change what it is holding. Twenty-six supplier contracts renew in the fourth quarter, and the notice date in each one sits in a PDF nobody has opened since signing. So somebody reads all twenty-six. You open the portal, download the first contract, hunt for the notice clause, work out the date, and type it into the tracker your COO reads. Strawberry is a browser too, and your AI companion works beside your browsing rather than taking it over. It reads all twenty-six, puts every deadline in the tracker, and flags the ones you were about to renew by accident.
| What you are weighing | Strawberry | Arc |
|---|---|---|
| What each one changes | Your AI companion changes what the pages hold, so twenty-six contracts become twenty-six notice dates in your tracker. | Its help centre calls Boosts a new way to edit and remix your internet. |
| How much of the job one instruction covers | One instruction covers all twenty-six contracts in the supplier portal, including the PDF each notice clause is buried in. | A Boost is limited to one domain at a time, and that article applies to Arc for macOS. |
| Where the answer ends up | 2,000+ integrations, so the deadlines land in your tracker, the urgent ones become calendar entries, and the summary reaches the thread it was asked in. | Not documented. What its help centre describes is changing how a site looks and behaves for you. |
| What happens to the browser you chose | The pages your AI companion opens sit with the chat rather than in your tab bar, they start muted, and chat opens beside any page without taking that page over. | The Boost editor changes the site inside your own window, using a colour wheel, font and size controls, and CSS and JavaScript editors. |
| What you hand a colleague | The AI companion itself, carrying its memory, its skills and its connected accounts, so your COO receives something that already knows the supplier book. | Anyone with the link can view a Space, Folder or Split as it was when the link was created, and viewers need their own access to anything behind a login. |
| What can be sent or changed without you, and what repeats | Every connected action is set to ask, always allow or off, approval opens an editor, and the check runs itself on the first Monday of every quarter. | Not documented in the Boosts or sharing articles. |
Changing how a site looks does not change what it is holding.
Take the deadline you only find out about once it has passed.
Twenty-six supplier contracts renew in the fourth quarter, and your COO wants to know which ones you can still walk away from. Every notice window is written somewhere inside a PDF. Two of them closed last week.
None of that is hidden. The contracts sit in the supplier portal, and anyone with the login can download them. It is slow because a person has to read twenty-six agreements and do the arithmetic on each one.
A better looking portal leaves that job exactly where it was. Arc's help centre says a Boost applies to one domain at a time. Strawberry takes the job instead. Your AI companion signs into the portal, reads all twenty-six contracts, finds each notice window and works out the date it falls on. Your COO gets one table: the supplier, the deadline, and the clause it came from.
The deadlines have to end up in the tracker your COO already opens.
The twenty-six contracts sit behind the supplier portal's login, and you already have an account there. Strawberry is the browser holding that login, so your AI companion reads them where they sit.
They are PDFs, and the notice clause is usually a paragraph somewhere on page nine. So it opens each contract and works through the pages until it has the date, rather than asking you to paste anything in.
Being the browser is also why Strawberry reaches 2,000+ integrations rather than a short list of connectors. So the answer has a destination. The twenty-six rows arrive in the tracker with the clause linked beside each date. The two urgent ones become calendar entries this week. The note for your COO lands in the thread where she asked.
Your AI companion should work beside your browsing, not take your browser over.
This matters more if you chose your browser on purpose.
The pages your AI companion works in belong to the chat rather than to your tab bar, so twenty-six contracts do not become twenty-six tabs across your window.
Those pages start muted, so no site makes a noise at you while you are reading something else. You can hide them, close them everywhere at once, or keep any one of them as an ordinary tab of your own. If you close a tab while work is still running there, Strawberry warns you first, because closing it does not stop the job.
Your own browsing stays your own. Chat opens beside any page with a keyboard shortcut without putting that page under your AI companion's control, and ordinary browsing never costs you credits.
What you hand a colleague should be the work itself, not a snapshot of your tabs.
Arc documents sharing at the level of tabs.
Its help centre says anyone with the link can view the contents of a Space, Folder or Split as it was when the link was created. Viewers do not automatically receive later changes, and they need their own access to anything behind a login.
An AI companion is a different thing to hand over. It carries its memory, its skills and its connected accounts. Your COO receives a colleague that already knows the supplier book and how you count a notice period.
Your team workspace holds the shared files and the process behind them, and shared credits cover whoever picks the job up. The next person does not inherit a list of links to twenty-six contracts. They inherit the thing that read them.
Nothing is sent or changed until you have seen it, and next quarter's check should run without you.
Reading a contract, drafting the notice letter and sending it to a supplier are three different risks. Strawberry treats them as three decisions rather than one switch you leave on.
Each connected action is set to ask, always allow, or off. Reading the twenty-six contracts needs no permission from you. A notice letter is not sent until you have read it.
Approval opens the letter itself, editable. The supplier contact, the wording of the notice and the contract attached to it are all changeable at that point. It also shows you the address it resolved, so a letter meant for one supplier cannot quietly go to another.
Then give the check a schedule, or a trigger such as a new email arriving. It runs on the first Monday of every quarter, and every run records what it did and what it cost.
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