AI agent use cases
Every use case is scored out of 100 for proof, payoff, ease and cost. Filter to what fits you, then copy the prompt.
25 use cases
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Build a multiplayer browser flight sim in hours and sell in-game ads
Pieter Levels, with no game-dev background, prompted Cursor (with Grok and Claude models) to build a Three.js flight simulator in about three hours. Within roughly ten days, sales of ad blimps and paid planes had passed $38,000.
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Cut a $195,000 hospital bill to under $40,000 using Claude’s line-item audit
After his brother-in-law died, Matt Rosenberg used Claude to compare the hospital's itemized charges against Medicare billing rules, finding unbundled duplicate charges, wrong inpatient codes and inflated supply prices. Claude helped write the dispute letter, and the hospital cut the bill from $195,000 to roughly $33,000-$37,000 (reports differ).
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62
Ship a solo-made roguelite to Steam Early Access with an AI coding agent
AI researcher Przemek Chojecki used Claude Code with the Godot engine to build Catvivors, a cat-themed survivors-style auto-battler, and released it on Steam Early Access. He describes about two weeks to a fun first level and a few more weeks for content and store setup.
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62
Generate on-brand Google Ads variations in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes
Austin Lau, a growth marketer at Anthropic with no coding background, used Claude Code to build a Figma plugin for ad variants and a command that drafts responsive search ads checked against brand and Google Ads rules. Ad creation dropped from about 30 minutes to about 30 seconds.
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62
Draft inbox replies and research 100 accounts overnight for a sales rep
John Albert, a business development rep at Anthropic, set up Claude Cowork skills and scheduled tasks that draft replies to inbound threads in his voice, flag no-shows, propose CRM updates and research about 100 accounts each night. He had been spending around five hours a day answering inbound interest by hand.
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61
Check a retiree’s federal tax estimate across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
The Finance Buff's Harry Sit gave the same 2026 retiree tax scenario to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok; none got it right first time. After he asked them to recheck, ChatGPT and Claude matched his $1,640 figure, while Gemini kept mishandling the charitable deduction.
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61
Prep sales reps with AI call briefs and coaching, adding $1.5M+ ARR in a quarter
Gusto's go-to-market team built Gumloop agents that score sales calls, write pre-call briefs from Salesforce, prepare partnership reviews and flag churn risks each morning. Gumloop reports over $1.5M in added ARR in three months and a 31% higher win rate on deals prepared with the briefs.
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59
Cut sales-to-onboarding handoff prep from 25 hours a month to under one
Amber Sharp, Director of Sales at Tivly, built Zapier agents that sort inbound email by client stage, answer new-client questions from company knowledge, and compile a plain-language handoff scorecard for the next account owner. Transition prep fell from about 25 hours a month to under one while onboarding volume rose more than 165%.
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59
Turn a website URL into a full ideal customer profile automatically
AiSDR, a sales development software company, built Gumloop flows that take a customer's website and documents and produce an ideal customer profile, plus flows for feature rollout messages. Their customer success ops lead says one flow ran more than 2,000 times and saved 5,000 hours of manual work.
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59
Generate 2,000+ qualified advertiser leads in a month with a web-searching agent
Andrew Harding at Slate Studios built a Zapier Agent trained on Slate's advertiser personas that searches the web for target accounts and contacts and drops them into Google Sheets. One agent produced more than 2,000 qualified leads in its first month.
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59
Triage your inbox and draft replies every morning
An agent labels new email by urgency, summarizes the long threads, drafts replies to the routine ones and gives you a short list to handle yourself.
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57
Record a rewards-points check once and have Claude in Chrome repeat it on demand
Eric Hal Schwartz recorded himself checking several loyalty programs and logging balances in a spreadsheet, then had Claude in Chrome rerun the whole routine from a one-line prompt, working across tabs in parallel. It did the job well, with a couple of password errors slowing it down.
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57
Classify and auto-close customer SMS replies for a car dealer group
Stellantis &You UK's digital process team used Make, Knack and an OpenAI model to read customer replies to booking texts, judge intent and sentiment, and either alert aftersales or close the message. Over 12 months it analyzed 47,000+ messages, closed 18,000+ automatically and saved about 151 hours.
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56
Answer customer questions from your help docs, with a human handoff
An agent answers routine support questions using only your help docs, says when it is not sure, and hands everything else to a person with a summary.
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56
Turn a keyword into a researched blog draft in WordPress
An agent reads the top search results for a keyword, writes an outline and a draft in your voice, and saves it to WordPress as a draft for you to edit.
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56
Move a company website off Webflow to a fast static site in under two weeks
Very Good Ventures used Claude Code to move its site, including 204 blog posts and about 1,200 images, from Webflow to Astro on Cloudflare in under two weeks, with agents also writing and running the QA tests. StackOne reported a similar Claude Code rebuild that took new pages from days to 1-2 hours.
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54
Organize a year of receipts into an expense and tax summary
Forward receipts to one inbox and an agent sorts them into categories, totals them by month, and builds a summary your accountant can use.
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54
Repurpose one post into a newsletter, X thread, LinkedIn post and Shorts script
When a post goes live, an agent pulls the five best takeaways and writes a version for each channel, queued for your approval.
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54
Turn meeting recordings into notes, tasks and a follow-up email
After each call, an agent turns the transcript into decisions, owners and dates, adds the tasks to your list and drafts the follow-up email.
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54
Launch a vibe-coded app with a ship checklist
Before you share your app, have the coding agent walk a launch checklist: domain, hosting, secrets, privacy, error pages, backups and basic security.
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51
Match sellers with the right customer references using a CRM-aware agent
Samsara's marketing operations team built a Gumloop agent that checks a prospect in Salesforce, searches the approved reference list and returns ranked matches with reasons. Along with other ops agents it replaced a single-purpose tool and saves the company about $80,000 a year.
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49
Watch competitors and get a weekly “what changed” brief
An agent checks competitor sites, pricing pages and announcements each week and tells you only what changed and what it might mean for you.
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49
Organize thousands of messy files into folders
A coding agent on your computer looks at file names, dates and contents, proposes a folder plan, and moves files only after you approve it.
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49
Fill out long forms from documents you already have
A browser agent reads your saved documents and fills in a long online form, then stops before submitting so you can check every field.
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49
Let an AI agent play-test your game and report bugs
Point a browser agent at a web game build and have it try to finish levels, break things on purpose, and write up what went wrong.