Your RPA renewal notice arrives. The supporting contracts are up. The team is already patching bots that broke after the latest UI update. The backlog of manual tasks that never get automated keeps growing. You have a choice: pay to keep a brittle system alive, or invest in automation that actually adapts.
Why RPA breaks here
Most enterprise RPA sits on selectors, xpaths, and object IDs. A developer binds a bot to a specific button or field. When the vendor ships a new release, the IDs change. The bot halts. The team must rebuild the workflow or patch it manually. Gartner estimates that 30 percent of RPA maintenance time is spent on updates and workarounds instead of new automation. The cost compounds each year. You pay for licenses, then you pay for developer hours to keep bots running.
What changes with computer use agents
- Survives UI changes
- No brittle selectors
- Recovers from exceptions
- Follows the SOP as written
- Works on legacy and Citrix
Coasty sees the screen like a human and acts like a human. That is the durable advantage over RPA.
How to move without the risk
Do not rip out all RPA at once. Pick one high-pain process where UI changes frequently or exceptions are common. Run it with Coasty agents alongside your existing RPA bots. Compare maintenance hours, uptime, and time to fix issues. If agents reduce downtime and save developer time, expand to more processes. Keep RPA for high-volume, stable backend tasks where it still fits well. This phased approach keeps risk low while you build confidence in computer use agents.
A practical comparison
- Selectors vs seeing the screen
- Rebuild-on-change vs adapt
- Halt-on-exception vs recover
- Human-like action moves and types instead of API calls
- Agents follow SOPs written in plain language
How Coasty works
- Agents control real desktops, browsers, and terminals
- Cloud VMs and a desktop app let you run agents anywhere
- Agent swarms enable parallel execution across processes
- A /v1 computer use API lets you integrate agents into your stack
- A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connects agents to your data and tools
- Bring your own keys (BYOK) keeps your data under your control
- A free tier lets you start small and scale as you validate value
Your RPA license renewal is coming. The smarter move is to evaluate computer use agents for the processes that break most often. Book a demo with the Coasty team at https://cal.com/coasty/15min and see how agents adapt instead of break.
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