Kampala by Zatanna
Reverse engineer websites, mobile, or desktop apps instantly
75 followers
Reverse engineer websites, mobile, or desktop apps instantly
75 followers
Kampala lets you reverse engineer anything including websites, mobile apps, and desktop apps instantly. Kampala takes care of SSO, Auth, and MFA and lets you have complete visibility into what requests trigger what workflows. Complete a workflow once with Kampala open, and it has all the context needed to repeat the workflow including logging in and keeping your cookies warm. Use the MCP or agent harness and run your scripts locally or host an API on our servers with the click of a button.
Kampala by Zatanna
Hey! I am Tarun and together with my co-founder Alex are Zatanna. We built Kampala, a man in the middle(mitm) proxy that allows you to agentically reverse engineer your existing workflows without brittle browser automation or computer use agents.
The average knowledge worker spends hours per day in legacy dashboards and on prem solutions reconciling data across platforms. Current attempts at automation use brittle browser automations or computer use agents which are slow, clunky, and nondeterministic.
Alex comes from a web reverse engineering background where he spent the last 7-8 years building integrations by hand for sneaker/ticket releases, sportsbooks logins, and everything in-between. During that time he consulted for several companies and brought them off of browser based infrastructure into the requests layer.
When we started Zatanna we built in dental tech and had to deal with tons of insurance payor dashboards and legacy practice management solutions. Our superpower(as a fairly undifferentiated voice agent/front desk assistant company) was that we could integrate with nearly any system requested. During this time we built extensive tooling (including Kampala) to allow us to spin up these integrations quickly.
Existing mitm proxy and tooling didn’t work for a few reasons:
They manipulated the TLS and HTTP2 fingerprint over the wire which was detected by strict anti-bots.
They had really bad MCPs which did not adequately expose necessary features like scripts/replay.
They did not allow for building workflows or actions given a sample or sequence of requests.
As the tools we built got more powerful, we began to use them internally to scrape conference attendees, connect to external PMS systems, and interact with slack apps. Alex even sent it to his property manager mom, who (with a lot of help from him lol), automated 2-3 hours of billing information entry in Yardi.
Because Kampala is a mitm, it is able to leverage existing session tokens/anti-bot cookies and automate things deterministically in seconds. Either use the MCP by manually doing a workflow once, and asking your preferred coding agent to use Kampala to make a script/API to replicate it, or the agent harness that directly creates scripts/apis by prompting you with what actions to make.
We think the future of automation does not exist in sending screenshots of webpages to LLMs, but instead using the layer below that computers actually understand. Excited to hear your thoughts/questions!