Ten years ago, work happened in desktop applications on company laptops behind a corporate firewall. That world is gone.
Today, the average employee uses over 50 web applications. Salesforce, Google Workspace, Slack, Figma, Notion, Jira, GitHub, ChatGPT - the list goes on. Every one of these runs in a browser.
But the browser your team uses was not built for this.
Chrome is a personal browser
Chrome, Edge, Safari - these are consumer browsers. They were designed for watching YouTube, reading the news, and online shopping. They have no concept of:
- Which apps matter to your business
- Who should access what
- How data should move between applications
- How AI tools should be used with company data
IT teams have spent years bolting solutions onto these browsers - proxies, extensions, agents, and monitoring tools. The result is complexity, latency, and frustrated users.
Even with all those layers, the fundamental problem remains. A consumer browser treats every tab the same. It does not know the difference between your CRM and a personal shopping site. It cannot enforce data policies at the point of interaction. IT is stuck piecing together visibility from network logs and endpoint agents that never have the full picture.
A browser that knows it is for work
A work browser starts with a different assumption: this browser exists for business. That changes everything.
Visibility. IT can see which web apps are being used, by whom, and how. Not through a proxy or network tap - directly in the browser where the interaction happens.
Control. Policies apply at the browser level - clipboard restrictions, download controls, watermarks, session recording. Per app, per user group. Rules are specific, immediate, and transparent to administrators.
AI governance. The browser knows when a user interacts with an AI tool and can enforce rules about what data can be shared. This is not an add-on or an afterthought - it is a core capability built into the browsing experience.
User experience. Because it is a real browser (Chromium-based), users get the same speed and compatibility they expect. No lag, no latency from remote rendering, no friction. Extensions, bookmarks, and workflows carry over from Chrome. Employees do not have to learn a new tool - they just open a browser that looks exactly like the one they already know.
Two browsers, not one
We believe the future has two browsers. Your personal browser for everything personal. A work browser for everything work.
This is not about restricting employees. It is about giving them a purpose-built tool for their workday - one that IT can manage, employees can trust, and organizations can rely on for visibility and compliance.
The companies adopting work browsers today are not doing it because they distrust their employees. They are doing it because the browser became the most important application in their stack, and it deserves the same level of management as every other enterprise tool. Email is managed. Identity is managed. Endpoints are managed. The browser should be too.
Chrome is great for your weekend browsing. dME is great for your workday.