Day-two option · the web portals

Why bother with Playwright?

Half the job lives in portals with no nice way in: the ESB connection portal, the building-control system, supplier and tender sites. Playwright lets your assistant actually drive a browser, so it can work those with you instead of you clicking through them alone.

What it is, in plain terms

Playwright is an add-on that gives your assistant a real browser it can see and click. You point it at a portal, it reads the page, fills the forms, pulls the documents, and shows you what it's looking at the whole way.

What that's good for

Pre-filling a long application on a portal that has no spreadsheet export.
Pulling a stack of documents or a register out of a site that won't let you download them in one go.
Reading a status page that changes daily and telling you only what moved.

The line it won't cross

You do the login and any two-factor yourself, it never sees your password. And it will not hit submit on anything binding, an application, a bid, a payment, on its own. It pre-fills and pulls; pressing the final button is always you. That guardrail is deliberate.

This one's optional. Plenty of lads never need it. If you live in a particular portal though, it's the difference between half an hour of clicking and a one-line ask. Worth setting up once the inbox basics are second nature.