Unlocking Ultimate Productivity: SuperAgent, Your Personal AI Assistant

Welcome to this week’s Deep-fried Dive with Fry Guy! In these long-form articles, Fry Guy conducts an in-depth analysis of a cutting-edge AI development. Today, our dive is about SuperAgent. We hope you enjoy!

Imagine a world where those mundane, tiresome tasks that often leave us feeling drained and unproductive are effortlessly taken care of. Envision having your very own personal assistant available around the clock, always ready and willing to tackle the work you'd rather avoid or simply can't find the time for. Well, the wait is over, as the revolutionary SuperAgent has emerged!

SuperAgent stands as a landmark for the future of productivity, offering a cutting-edge service that helps users create personalized AI agents capable of handling a myriad of assigned tasks. Whether it's managing your busy schedule, organizing your inbox, conducting research, or even just handling administrative duties, these AI agents are at your beck and call, entirely dedicated to enhancing your productivity and freeing you from the burden of the mundane.

HOW WAS SUPER-AGENT BORN?

SuperAgent is an open-source project based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Sweden is smaller in population and is not necessarily a powerhouse for AI, relative to other large countries like the U.S. and China. As a result, many in the country are focused primarily on engineering initiatives rather than tech developments. However, the creators of SuperAgent, Ismail Pelaseyed and Alan Zabihi, were cut of a different cloth. As Zabihi said, “Ismail and I always wanted to do something different.”

Zabihi has a mechanical engineering background and Pelaseyed was formerly a chemist. They met during their university days when they led a math club together. Zabihi said it became clear over time that their ambitions aligned, as they both wanted to “toy around with cool technology and make something useful … something big.” This is precisely what they have set out to do with SuperAgent.

Zabihi recognizes that the idea of agents in the field of AI is not something new. The deployment of the agents through SuperAgent, however, is groundbreaking. Zabihi explains, “The whole idea is that you have some kind of program that can act autonomously—can understand its environment and solve different tasks to reach different goals.” Over the past year or so, people have been exploring different large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and have found that these LLMs can serve as “a reasoning engine for an agent.” Zabihi says, “If you imagine an agent having all of these different components—like a brain—and it needs to perform a certain task, the LLM can perform as a reasoning agent to accomplish these tasks.”

SuperAgent was a product initially used by Zabihi and Pelaseyed as they were creating an AI ad generator. They were manually writing a lot of tedious code, but began outsourcing this work through an LLM and saw much more accurate and efficient results. They then began to formalize this “agentic” model as a tool for marketing companies—a marketing agent. From this model, they began to wonder what else they could expand this idea to, so they open-sourced this type of framework to enhance the lives of public users.

HOW DOES SUPER-AGENT WORK?

SuperAgent is written in Python and developed through a framework named FastAPI, which creates an application programming interface (API) for any developer to use to integrate into the app. The project also offers different frameworks for the user to use, such as LangChain, if they so choose. SuperAgent integrates a variety of tools to power the agents, such as Zapier and others. The LLMs are connected through a variety of third party services which allow the user to bring in whatever data they want. The database itself is run through a service provider called, “Superbase,” which connects all these elements in a pretty simple stack.

SuperAgent is currently free to the user in a beta version and can be run through a manual download or through a cloud user-interface by creating an account on the SuperAgent website. There, the user can create and manage their agents and implement them into a desired application.

Zabihi says, “SuperAgent is a production-ready and developer-friendly tool.” The user interface is designed to be easy to navigate and does not require any coding. Rather, the agent is designed and given tasks through the writing of prompts.

WHAT CAN SUPER-AGENT BE USED FOR?

Regardless of one’s background or purpose, they can utilize SuperAgent to increase productivity and help reach their goals. As Pelaseyed remarks, “Our approach is to build something for people who don’t necessarily have the skillset or time to build this on their own … We have all kinds of use cases for SuperAgent, including designers, law firms, consulting companies, and even technology companies. So it’s a pretty broad scope of people.”

Most of SuperAgent’s users are based in the United States, though their users span the globe. The project boasts over 1,000 active users on the cloud version and substantially more on the open-source solution. Some of the most common cases are assistant-based use cases. This could be a personal assistant which manages one’s appointments or schedule, or a company assistant which makes social media posts or answers mass emails.

Other, more complex use cases are explored by people daily, as 400 developers and over 30 contributors (called “the ninja army”) discuss the project and use cases daily on the SuperAgent Discord. Pelaseyed said some prompts “don’t even look like a language … it’s just a massive amount of emojis.” This might seem like a funny joke, but it’s actually an innovative way to explore the technology. The limits of SuperAgent are being tested and further developed daily, which is what makes the future of the project so exciting.

One of the more interesting things Pelaseyed has noticed while monitoring the use cases of the project is how people have a desire “to replace themselves.” By this, he means that “people want to replace the tedious tasks they do every day … and in this case it is perfect to create your own bot.” Ismail Pelaseyed himself uses SuperAgent in this way, as he created what he dubbed, “Super Ismail.”

Some worry that the large-scale use of these agents might make people lazy or complacent, but this is not the way the developers see the project being implemented. The idea here is not that our lives would become meaninglessly replaced by these agents, but actually quite the opposite. As Zabihi says, “Agents like ‘Super Ismail’ are basically a clone so that Ismail and others can create more value elsewhere.”

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF SUPER-AGENT?

The future of SuperAgent is in the hands of those willing to explore its limits. The AI wave is here, and projects like SuperAgent which provide the framework for user imagination to take flight seem to be leading the charge.

Zabihi and Pelaseyed are currently working on a new version of SuperAgent which will make it “much easier” to create more complicated agents that can perform more complex tasks. Zabihi envisions these agents becoming so developed that they will have the ability to “replace 90% of the workforce in corporate America.” This kind of agent power could massively reshape the way work is done in a plethora of fields.

SuperAgent is certainly one of the most underrated projects spanning the AI space, and it currently embodies the status of an embryo compared to the potential it has to transform the lifestyle of individuals and to shape a brand new societal landscape for the future. As Pelaseyed said, “Automating small mundane tasks, at volume, could be amazing for humanity.”