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.
70 use cases
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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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60
Compare prices and reviews before a big purchase
An agent shortlists products that fit your needs and budget, compares current prices and the most common complaints in reviews, and tells you which to buy.
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60
Let an AI model play and finish Pokemon Blue live on a stream
Software engineer Joel Zhang built a harness that let Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro play Pokemon Blue on a Twitch stream. The model finished the game after about 37 days, which Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared publicly.
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Build a small automation without code by describing it
Describe the job in one sentence and let an automation tool's built-in agent wire the trigger, steps and apps, then test it with one real example.
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60
Plan a trip with a day-by-day itinerary and a packing list
Tell an agent your dates, budget and what you like, and it plans each day with travel times, booking deadlines and a packing list for the forecast.
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60
Write a weekly study plan and quiz yourself on anything
Tell an agent what you want to learn and how much time you have, and it builds a weekly plan, finds free resources and quizzes you at the end of each week.
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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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58
Automate payment support tickets end to end, cutting handling to about 70 seconds
Koralplay, an 85-person gaming software company led on this by COO Didier Caroff, built an n8n workflow that logs into its back office, looks up a stuck payment, checks regulatory status, replies to the customer and updates the ticket. About 70% of payment tickets in one market are now handled automatically, saving roughly 616 hours a week.
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58
Draft 80% of a government proposal in about 25 minutes from the solicitation file
Field Aerospace, an aircraft modification firm, built n8n workflows that split uploaded solicitations into sections, pull out every requirement, and draft responses from approved past-performance material. A first draft that used to take three or four people about two weeks now takes roughly 25 minutes.
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58
Build a small web app by describing it to a coding agent
Describe the app in plain words, let the coding agent plan and build it in small steps, and test each step before moving on.
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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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56
Migrate a 22-year WordPress blog with 5,500 posts to a static Hugo site in a day
Investor Brad Feld used Claude Code to export 5,530 posts from WordPress, convert them to Hugo, keep every old URL working and deploy to Vercel. He reports the move took about a day and the site now builds in under a minute.
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56
Turn repeat WordPress hosting chores into one-command agent skills
Austin Ginder of Anchor Hosting built 22 Claude Code skills that run tasks like site migrations, backups, malware cleanup and plugin patching across about 2,900 WordPress sites. A migration that took 20-30 minutes of hands-on terminal work now starts with one command and runs while he does other things.
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56
Draft and schedule a week of social posts in one sitting
Give an agent your topics and voice once a week, and it drafts posts for each day and platform, then you approve them in one pass.
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55
Resolve 47,000 support tickets a month with an AI triage-and-reply workflow
Eric McNulty at Mercari built a large Zapier workflow that classifies every support ticket, pulls the matching policy text from Google Sheets, and drafts or sends replies, with low-confidence cases going to a person. It answers about 97% of tickets first and frees more than 3,000 agent hours a month.
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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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53
Build a full roguelite bullet-hell game in 10 days with parallel coding agents
Adrian Bigaj of BigDevSoon ran up to eight Claude Code agents, linked to the Unity editor through MCP, to build the 2D roguelite Void Balls in 10 days. The project reached about 29,000 lines of C# with 88 test files, for around $50 a month in AI tools.
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53
Build branded gift proposals in under a minute from a chat brief
Agency PromptGorillas built an n8n system for BeGlobal, a Dutch corporate-gifts company, where a chat agent collects the brief, GPT writes the product database query, and n8n fills a Google Slides template with matching products and images. Proposals that took hours now take about two minutes of staff time, and yearly offers rose from about 50 to nearly 500.
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52
Let a coding agent write most new features and fix defects 10x faster
Cisco rolled out OpenAI Codex across engineering and reports it wrote over 95% of the new features in its AI Defense product. Defect-fix throughput rose 10-15x, and the company says it saves more than 1,500 engineering hours a month.
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Split a giant legacy codebase into modules with an agent doing the grunt work
Nubank used Devin to help migrate an 8-year-old ETL monolith with over 6 million lines into smaller sub-modules, running many sub-tasks in parallel while engineers reviewed. The company reports an 8-12x engineering efficiency gain and over 20x cost savings on that work.