🔄 Current Situation

Right now, Puzzle is a useful top-down collaborative mapping tool. However, it relies entirely on human memory. Users often suffer from the "cold start" problem: they stare at a blank canvas because their most repetitive daily tasks have become invisible, automated habits. They don't know what to map.

💡 Feature Request Description

Introduce a lightweight Puzzle Browser Extension that acts as a passive "Workflow Scout", bringing a MemoryLane-style approach directly into the browser.

It analyzes browser tab sequences, form inputs, and copy-paste patterns across SaaS apps.
When it detects a repetitive sequence (e.g., repeating a 5-step process between HubSpot, Gmail, and a internal tool), it keeps a pattern history and optionally sends a push notification: "We noticed you did this sequence 3 times today. Click here to auto-generate a Puzzle blueprint."
This transforms Puzzle from a reactive documentation tool into an active Process Discovery Engine.

🛠️ Implementation Suggestion

To avoid the security, privacy, and development nightmares of a full desktop app (like task-mining competitors do), start with a Chromium Extension.

Cross-Platform Support: A browser extension runs out-of-the-box across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
The extension monitors URLs and DOM interactions locally.
It uses a local script to cluster repetitive patterns.
With one click, the user sends the raw text steps to Puzzle's AI to instantly generate the visual workflow on their dashboard.

🔑 Feasibility (BYOK)

To reduce AI infrastructure and token costs for Puzzle, this feature can run on a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model.

Users plug in their OpenAI-Compatible provider (BaseURL setup + API key)
Puzzle incurs zero AI compute costs for the background processing and text-to-map generation.
This keeps the feature highly scalable, private, and predictable for your team to maintain.

📚 References

Examples of services using background task-mining to feed process intelligence: