I Tried My First AI Agent – Convergence AI – and Let’s Just Say…

What I find interesting though, is that unlike large language models, there doesn’t seem to be any big name frontrunners in the AI agent race yet. Sure, there have been a few quiet releases here and there ^{1 2}, but they’ve stayed mostly under the radar. OpenAI’s January release of the Operator model ³ is a rare exception, but that’s only because anything OpenAI puts out at this point catches some press. Despite its higher visibility though, in practice, Operator is too cost prohibitive for the average ChatGPT user to try. Unless you’ve got a spare $200 a month laying around, the only thing you’re going to have access to are more opinions.

But fret not my friend, because a new AI agent has entered the chat – Convergence. Or more specifically, Proxy, which is the name of Convergence’s AI agent.

After hearing all the buzz and finding out that it wouldn’t cost me $200 to try it, I decided to take it for a spin. But before I get into the fine details, let me first give you an overview of the two plans they offer and what they promise to deliver. Then I’ll share the results of three tasks that I ran using Proxy.

Convergence AI plans 💰

Convergence offers a free plan alongside a $20 per month Pro plan. The details they share up front only tell part of the story though. You’ll see why shortly. Nonetheless, they give you the gist of what you get with each option:

The Convergence AI promo video 🎥

The Convergence website has a two-minute-ish promotional video that highlights the benefits of using Proxy.

The benefits include:

• Multi-system and multi-instance operation: Proxy can navigate and work across multiple platforms, such as Salesforce, G Suite, Slack, Bamboo HR, Indeed, and Glassdoor. The video also mentions that “infinite numbers of Proxy” can work in multiple departments simultaneously.
• Personalized learning: It learns from your instructions “exactly how you would teach a new colleague,” adapting to your specific way of working. Once it learns how to complete a task (like creating an HR department in Bamboo), it remembers the skill for future use.

The video positions Proxy as a “generalist Twin” or “extension of you.” If you’d like to see it yourself, I’ve embedded it below:

Promo video versus real user experience 🧑🏼‍💻

Much like some of the other AI agent demos I’ve seen, my impression after watching the promo video left me feeling like this is indeed a game changer. However, that impression gradually spiraled downward when I actually signed up for a free account and put it to use. There is just no way anyone is going to take over the world using Proxy.

I ended up asking it to complete ten tasks over the course of two days (since the free account limits you to five requests per day).

The tasks that were fairly simple in nature and mainly just relied on completing a few Google searches were successful. However, more complex tasks that required Proxy to log into accounts required way too much of my human intervention and didn’t always yield good results.

For practical reasons, I’m not going to share all ten tasks here. Instead I will share three examples to give you an idea of what you can reasonably expect to get out of Proxy.

First task: log into my ebay account and search for camera lenses

After watching the video and seeing how seemingly easy it was for Proxy to log into various software tools to complete tasks, I wanted to see it for myself. Here’s the exact prompt I gave it:

It got to work right away.

However, despite giving it my login details, it very quickly ran into a roadblock.

You can see in the screenshot below.

In the steps it said that it was going to “securely enter [my] password to complete the sign-in process.” However, instead of actually doing that, it gave me the sign-in window and asked me to do it myself.

This was indicated by the orange dot next to the window, which signals that a manual intervention is needed.

Proxy asking for help

Anytime you encounter that orange dot while using Proxy means you have to tap on the Enter browser button to go into its browser and take control. The browser initially loads in a full-screen format, so you might have to magnify the screen to zoom in on the section you need to use.

In this example, after entering my password, I tapped Submit on the bottom right and this resumed Proxy’s attempt at completing the task.

At this point I was thinking to myself that while perhaps not maximally efficient, this one minor hindrance wasn’t so bad.

Unfortunately, my optimism was quickly crushed. Ebay flagged Proxy’s login attempt as “suspicious.” It then asked me to request a security verification code via SMS.

The most frustrating aspect of this, was that Proxy wasn’t contextually intelligent enough to simply click on the Text me button. It once again asked me to manually intervene to literally just click a button:

Unfortunately, ebay still wasn’t convinced and I also had to complete a manual captcha challenge:

And after all that, I had to manually sign in again:

This wasn’t the time-saving efficiency that was promised to me in the promo video.

Results of first task

Despite the initial roadblocks I encountered with logging into my account, in the end Proxy was able to sift through ebay and come up with a list of five camera lenses for me, including links to each listing:

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In Proxy’s defense, a lot of those login hurdles were simply a result of security processes that most websites have.

But therein lies the somewhat misleading marketing promise.

As a regular everyday user, you will likely encounter these login issues on almost all of your accounts if you ask Proxy to log into them. This is because they will all flag Proxy as the bot (excuse me, “AI agent”) that it is.

At least initially.

It’s possible that after having you jump through all these manual hoops on an initial Proxy request, that some websites will green flag subsequent attempts to log in.

Having said that, I wouldn’t get my hopes up. The reason is because it appears that Proxy shuffles around IP addresses when using its browser. I noticed this when I got emails from ebay that matched the manual intervention requests by Proxy:

In short, I wouldn’t bet on Convergence AI saving you time on any tasks that require it to log into accounts.

Second task: search the web for remote content writer job openings

For the next request, I wanted to see how Convergence might help someone looking for a job. Here was my exact prompt:

One thing I didn’t share with you in the first example, is that you can actually observe Proxy doing its work in a sidebar window. This opens up by default when you first use it, but you can hide it or show it by using the toggle button shown above.

This feature is somewhat interesting the first time you use Convergence, but the novelty wears off very quickly. After all, the whole point of using it is so you can do other work while it’s doing the task you asked it to.

Results of second task

Compared to the ebay request, the results here were much better. I didn’t have to do any kind of manual intervention. Proxy simply searched around the web and compiled a list that matched my criteria:

Versus Perplexity and Google

For a thorough analysis, I decided to check how Proxy’s results would compare to Perplexity and Google.

I began by giving Perplexity the identical prompt that I gave to Proxy:

Although Perplexity was infinitely faster at producing its list (it is a search engine after all), in my opinion, the quality of the Convergence list was much better.

For the Google comparison I shortened the query to make it more appropriate for a standard Google search:

Convergence got the winning nod against Google as well.

Overall, for this kind of relatively simple task, I think using Proxy makes sense. I could see myself coming back to it again for similar requests. However, there is still a caveat here, and it has to do with the size of the query.

The third and final example illustrates this well:

Third task: search the websites of 25 companies for remote content writer job openings

As you just saw, tasks that don’t require Proxy to log into any accounts and only search the web tend to produce good results.

But there are limitations to how much you can ask it to do. For example, I gave Proxy a similar prompt about finding jobs, but this time I gave it a list of 25 specific companies that I wanted it to check.

For context, I got this list from a LinkedIn post that stated that these specific companies were currently hiring writers. In other words, I didn’t send Proxy on a random goose chase. The list was intentionally chosen to make it easier for Proxy to complete the task.

Results of third task

At first, everything seemed like it was going well:

But then, after researching the seventh company out of the full list of 25, it decided that it had enough:

And that was it. There was no message about it not being able to continue. It just marked it as complete and pretended like nothing happened.

I tried this with several other queries and had similar non-results every time. With one particular query, it did initially mark it with a red flag after reaching 39 steps into the process, but bizarrely, the next day the red flag disappeared and it was added to my list of “completed” tasks.

My advice is to leave your queries open-ended and let Convergence decide on its own when it wants to stop searching. If it asks you a follow-up question with a request for details, keep your expectations small (i.e., up to five of something).

Other notable features ⚡️

Before wrapping this up, I want to briefly highlight two other features that Convergence offers:

These are the ability to set up recurring tasks, and to use templates.

They are exactly what they sound like. After you complete a one-off task, Convergence gives you the option to convert it into an automated (recurring) task or to make a template out of it.

The main difference between the two is that with the automated tasks, you set up a schedule for the task to occur on whatever basis you decide:

With templates, it sets the prompt aside for you to reuse in the future whenever you wish.

You can also share the template with the public Template Marketplace, as well as search templates created by others:

My final verdict ⚖️

After securing $12 million USD in pre-seed funding last year ⁴, the hype around Convergence AI was real. The company released their Proxy agent about a month after that funding round ⁵. Even though I was slightly late to the party by a few weeks, I was excited to try it. Unfortunately, I was left mostly disappointed. Aside from using it for simple search queries, I don’t see myself coming back to it for more complex needs until they release a few more iterations.

Perhaps the $20 a month plan is significantly better, but the free version left much to be desired. It’s similar to how I felt about OpenAI’s Sora after trying it a few months ago – cool but not quite there yet.

I have a gut feeling that most of 2025’s AI releases are going to be categorized as cool but not quite there yet, but perhaps something will come along to pleasantly surprise me. Until then, I’ll keep watching in amusement as AI company CEOs predict AI surpassing humans at almost everything inside of three years. ⁶

Sure…I’ll believe it when I see test it.

Have you tried Convergence AI’s Proxy or any other AI agents? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below.