AI agent use cases
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15 use cases
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Shortlist NYC two-bedroom rentals in tiers with Manus in under 30 minutes
MIT Technology Review's Caiwei Chen asked Manus to find two-bedroom apartments in New York, and after clarifying her criteria it returned tiered picks like best overall and best value in under half an hour. It first read her wish for outdoor space too literally, and she hit crashes and capacity errors during testing.
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Build a newsletter summarizer that cuts weekly reading to 30 minutes
Consultant Justin Tan, a self-described low-coder, used Replit Agent over three days to build an app that pulls newsletters from Gmail, removes duplicate stories, summarizes them and archives the emails. His weekly newsletter reading dropped from 2-3 hours to two 15-minute sessions.
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Replace a $40K CRM contract with a custom CRM built in an afternoon
Atonom, a 25-30 person AI sales company, built its own CRM in Lovable with a first working prototype in about 3 hours. It replaced a Salesforce contract, cutting annual CRM costs from $40,000 to about $1,200.
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Cancel three streaming subscriptions by letting ChatGPT agent click through each site
Tom's Guide AI editor Amanda Caswell had ChatGPT agent log into Peacock, Disney+ and Netflix and work through each cancellation flow, and all three were cancelled. She needed to nudge it in a few spots and warns some sites may block or flag the agent.
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Audit a $1,200 dental bill and draft insurance appeals with ChatGPT
Writer Jamie Phillis used ChatGPT to spot questionable charges on a dental bill, then draft an appeal, a second-level appeal and a state insurance complaint. The first appeal was denied and the case never formally closed, but the office never billed her the roughly $1,200 balance.
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Win back a denied prepaid-spa charge with a ChatGPT-written dispute
Charlotte business owner Suuz Martines had been denied a refund for months on prepaid services at a spa that closed. ChatGPT gave her wording, document lists, possible legal grounds and a phone script for her card issuer, and about five days later the dispute was approved and she got her money back.
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Get a three-year parking charge dropped with a ChatGPT-drafted court defence
Essex driver Rafal Gorfal fed ChatGPT the debt-collector letters about a £100 parking charge that had grown to about £300, and it advised him on replies and helped write his court defence. Weeks before the hearing, the claim and fine were dropped.
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Book movie seats and send date-night calendar invites with ChatGPT agent
TechRadar's Eric Hal Schwartz had ChatGPT agent pick seats at a theater, create calendar events for the date and babysitting drop-off, send invites and make an invitation slide deck in under ten minutes. It first chose the wrong theater and paused at payment for him to finish.
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Turn a week of dinners into a priced grocery list in Google Sheets with ChatGPT agent
Tom's Guide's Amanda Caswell asked ChatGPT agent to plan five dinners, build a categorized grocery list with price checks, flag nearby sales and export it to Google Sheets. She rated it 10 out of 10, though other tasks in the same test, like ordering lunch, needed more hand-holding.
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Sort nearly 900 loose Google Drive files into folders with Claude in Chrome
TechRadar's Eric Hal Schwartz had Claude in Chrome organize close to 900 stray documents and spreadsheets into six top-level folders with subfolders, set aside about 50 duplicates, and leave unclear files for him to place. He also used it to draft meeting-time emails from his calendar, while noting privacy concerns about broad browser access.
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Reserve an OpenTable dinner for two through Copilot Actions in Edge
PCMag's Michael Muchmore asked Copilot Actions in Edge to book an 8 p.m. table for two at a nearby Japanese restaurant on OpenTable, and it completed the booking. He had to supply a phone number and verification code, it first assumed the wrong city, and he found doing it himself was faster.
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Find a top-rated restaurant and book it after confirmation with Perplexity Comet
Tom's Guide writer Priyanca Rajput asked Comet to check top-rated restaurants and availability, and it made the reservation after asking her to confirm, which she called a standout. Its more personal outputs in the same test, like a workout plan, felt generic.
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Run a two-person consultancy’s proposals and research with a team of agents
Scot Westwater's AI strategy firm Pragmatic uses Lindy agents for conference research, proposal drafting, editing and case studies. They report saving 20-30 hours a week, cutting proposal turnaround from about 1.5 weeks to under two days, and winning a $50,000 project with the agents' help.
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Build a retro space shooter with a child in about 20 minutes
Product writer Peter Yang and his 7-year-old used Claude Code inside Cursor's terminal to make a 2D vertical space shooter with three levels, boss fights and music, then published it on Vercel.
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Auto-close thank-you replies and prioritize support tickets with ChatGPT
Allen Lai's customer experience team at Otter.ai used Zapier and ChatGPT to spot reopened Zendesk tickets that only said thanks and close them, and to tag new tickets by urgency and category. Over 1,000 tickets were auto-solved in three months and more than 10,000 were enriched and routed.