All use cases
Shortlist destinations and compare stays
Comet shortlisted sunny destinations by flight time from Amsterdam, then pulled Airbnb and Booking.com listings into a comparison table.
Solve open math problems autonomously
DeepMind's Aletheia agent on Gemini Deep Think was evaluated on 700 open Erdős problems and autonomously solved four.
Sort 2,200 Downloads files into folders with summaries
Cowork grouped a Downloads folder of 2,200 loose files by type and summarized each folder in under 20 minutes, mostly non-destructively.
Sort 400 PDFs into folders
A user had Claude Cowork read 400 PDF files and sort them into different folders.
Sort tax documents and fill IRS forms with Claude
Author had Claude sort wage forms, 1099s and brokerage summary, extract numbers, and fill blank IRS forms, but did not let it file via browser automation.
Sort waste using local recycling rules
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 looks up local recycling rules online, then plans and sorts objects into compost, recycling and trash bins.
Source and screen candidates and reply over WhatsApp
Recruiters run OpenClaw to monitor GitHub for new contributors overnight, score resume folders against a job description, and draft WhatsApp replies held for human approval.
Source and screen candidates with voice agents
An unnamed staffing firm used voice AI agents to contact and screen candidates, reportedly reaching 2,000 in a week; weak, vendor-adjacent account.
Source recruiting candidates on LinkedIn and build valuation models
ChatGPT Agent logged into LinkedIn, filtered YouTube manager candidates in Bangalore into a spreadsheet, and in another demo built an Excel valuation model from company financials in 17 minutes.
Source suppliers and negotiate deals overnight
An agent found suppliers for an online store, negotiated, handled a sample refusal, and locked in $4.50/unit for 100 pieces needing one decision from the owner.
Spec features with AI and hand off to coding agent with ChatGPT
Author discusses a spec with an AI agent or ChatGPT, then hands it to an agent to code, and tests the outcome instead of reading every line.
Speed up a thesis literature review with ChatGPT
Author used ChatGPT to summarize and structure a thesis literature review, and tried a tool that builds summaries from real papers to avoid invented citations.
Speed up multifamily deal research and property summaries
A multifamily broker uses AI for market research, comps analysis, property summaries and chasing property details, but not for negotiation or relationships.
Speed up Rust code by having agents iteratively optimize it
The post covers asking coding agents to make Rust code faster through repeated iteration.
Speed up support ticket research and triage
A ClickUp support engineer built a system cutting per-ticket research from 15 to 4 minutes across 5,000+ monthly tickets; Mercari handles first replies for 97% of tickets.
Spend leftover AI quota on reviewable PRs
RemainderBot uses a founder's goals and task lists to write PRs with spare Claude and Codex quota, producing 111 PRs including call prep and prototypes.
Spin up a customer-support agent from a prompt
The reviewer prompted Lindy to build a support agent, connected Google and Slack, and had it ready to run; only setup was described, no long-run results.
Split a React Native to Swift migration across agents
Cognition's Jared Zoneraich uses Devin fan-out so child agents work in parallel on a migration split into six pieces.
Spot recurring meetings, emails and bills and offer to prep them
An assistant on top of Gmail and Calendar detects recurring meetings, repeated email types and bills, then asks whether to prep or schedule them.
Suggest date ideas and nudge for more date nights
Trained a Claude Code assistant with date spot lists and guidelines to suggest dates, nudge when needed and possibly book reservations.
Summarize 20 articles into a cited document
An agent extracted key insights from 20 articles, found common themes and produced a cited summary; the write-up estimates 18 minutes versus hours by hand.
Summarize a YouTuber's latest video into a Google Doc daily
A Make scenario runs at 9 AM, finds a YouTuber's newest video, has Hugging Face summarize it, and appends the summary to a Google Doc.
Summarize an insurance denial letter for an appeal
The poster used an AI assistant to summarize a denial PDF to draft an appeal, but it invented an appeal deadline.
Summarize demos and draft follow-ups for sales
A sales team launched a Lindy agent that summarizes demo calls for HubSpot, drafts follow-ups, schedules calls and recommends proposals, saving 5+ hours a week.
Summarize email and prep briefings from your phone
A Fortune writer used Claude Dispatch with Cowork to summarize and pick out important emails, plus recurring morning briefings and meeting prep from the calendar.
Summarize emails and draft replies with Gemini Gem flows
The writer plugged a custom Gemini Gem into Workspace Studio flows that run in the background, summarize Gmail messages and create draft replies to review and send.
Summarize months of notes in Logseq via CLI agent
User points Codex at the Logseq CLI docs so it can query and summarize journals and tagged job-application and project pages.
Summarize new arXiv papers into notes with scheduled agents
Scheduled scripts produce a daily arXiv digest, and a nightly script launches Claude Code agents to summarize each saved PDF into a notes folder.
Summarize newsletters into a Notion database
An n8n workflow retrieves newsletters, summarizes them with an LLM and stores them in Notion, splitting long summaries to fit block limits.
Summarize non-obvious methods file by file in a paper project
A commenter had Claude Code write file-by-file summaries of non-obvious methods in a research project, then reviewed them to keep track of the work.
Summarize Reddit threads before writing code
The poster built an MCP server so Claude Code summarizes about 30 Reddit threads in around 10 seconds as research before coding.
Summarize school emails for parents with Grok Bot
A Grok bot reads kids' school emails nightly and reports what to pack, wear, sign or pay for, flagging deadlines and sign-ups.
Summarize service calls and find local customers
Grok Bot listens to phone calls and posts summaries and to-dos to Slack, and scans Reddit daily for local customers, creating Notion pages and calendar appointments for a home service business.
Summarize the day's new emails and manage meetings
A user asked an AI assistant to summarize emails received that day and got a summary in under 30 seconds; it also handles meeting summaries, action items, calendar and drafts.
Summarize transcripts and build documents with Codex
A guide shows Codex summarizing transcripts into a Word doc, building an Excel revenue model and making carousel images from a document.
Surface unanswered emails from the past week
Author had Devin build a Gmail API assistant that lists unanswered emails from the past week, since Attio lacks that tab; he wrote the auth part himself in Cursor.
Survey AI product names with a swarm of search agents
The author had a swarm of Claude agents run 4,654 searches to catalog AI bot names and analyze naming trends by gender, industry and year.
Sync family calendars by generating and emailing invites
The poster has Grok Bot generate .ics invites and email them for approval, and is giving it an iCloud account to reach the family calendar.
Synthesize interview transcripts and PDFs for research
Claude Code is pointed at transcripts and PDFs to produce theme summaries, evidence tables and annotated bibliographies; a UX researcher runs 50-transcript studies this way.
Take a video from thumbnail to published with promo posts
Cowork proposes a Figma thumbnail, uploads the video to YouTube with metadata, and drafts and schedules X, Bluesky and LinkedIn promo posts.
Take ideas to implementation with a planning-command pipeline
A solo SaaS founder uses a custom five-command agent flow (intent, impact analysis, planning, execution, review) with lint guardrails to ship features in a production product.
Take orders for a sushi chain with an agent
The poster built a Claude agent that takes orders for a seven-location sushi chain, using menu, allergen, delivery zone, hours and promo data.
Teach a bot a workflow by screen recording
Grok Bot learns a task from a screen recording and repeats it; a reviewer taught one to pull newsletter stats without an API.
Teach an agent to trade with signals and logging
@mufasadubai had Manus write a Python script using ProjectX APIs for realtime charts, set up Telegram signals and log trades to Google Sheets and CSV.
Teach students with assessments, custom lessons and reassessment
Hugh Shbalz trained an agent to give standardized assessments, write lessons to fill gaps, then reassess mastery of core concepts.
Tell Indian citizens which government schemes they're owed
An agent built on Sanity queries real content to tell people in India which government schemes they are entitled to.
Test a browser agent on web games with ChatGPT
Researchers had ChatGPT Atlas's browser agent play T-Rex Runner, Sudoku, Flappy Bird and Stein.world; it did well on logic puzzles like Sudoku, finishing faster than humans.
Test AI annotations on student problem sets with Claude
A chemistry professor ran 11 students' problem sets through Claude to see if its annotations could help manual grading; the project was accidentally left public, exposing student information.
Test an agent on SEO research and outreach tasks
SE Ranking tested Operator on pulling SERP results, backlink checks and outreach email management; it was slow and error-prone, so they did not recommend it for complex SEO work.
Test an iPhone game and report what passed
Cognition had Devin on GPT-6 Astra test the game Otter Run in a simulator, returning a recording and a report of checks passed and untested areas.
Test API endpoints in Postman and report results
@ai_for_success used Comet to generate test payloads from context, run API endpoint tests in Postman and produce a final report.
Test Devin on integrations, migration and security review
Answer.AI tried Devin on an observability integration, an nbdev migration and a vulnerability review; it found some real issues, hallucinated others, and failed the migration.
Test Devin on pulling Notion data into Sheets
Answer.AI testers found Devin completed only 3 of 20 tasks, succeeding at moving Notion data to Google Sheets and building a planet tracker.
Test features on screen and merge fixed PRs
Ryan Carson uses Devin's Test App feature to record and narrate feature clicks, fix bugs, and merge PRs with a !land command.
Test how well coding agents can onboard to your product
ax-check.com runs coding agents in sandboxes to try onboarding to a product, then returns a scorecard, suggested fixes, and full session traces.
Test local web apps and fix errors in one session
Claude Code with Claude in Chrome writes code, opens localhost, clicks through the UI, reads console errors and fixes them without the developer touching the browser.
Test OpenAI's Agent on online shopping
The agent got partway through buying dress shoes before the poster had to enter the card, then hit Amazon bot protection and could not reliably shop, book or reserve.
Test Operator on legal paperwork, party planning and shopping
The author tried Operator on five use cases; party planning was 'meh' and Amazon shopping failed because it couldn't add items to the cart.
Track competitor prices and contacts into Google Sheets with Claude
A Claude-powered scraper agent monitors competitor sites hourly, pulling pricing, company details and contacts into Google Sheets, replacing manual research.
Track competitor prices weekly across five sites
An agent opens five brand sites every Monday, compares against last week's snapshot, captures timestamped screenshots of changes, and sends a report.
Track daily arXiv papers into a Notion database
An n8n workflow fetches arXiv papers daily for a keyword, summarizes them with Gemini 2.5 Flash, writes them to Notion and sends Feishu and Gmail notifications.
Track daily price and stock changes on Shopify stores
An agent reads a Shopify store's public product feed daily and reports new, removed, price and stock changes, e.g. 692 products at allbirds.com.
Track food and symptoms in a health log via Telegram
An OpenClaw agent logs meals and symptoms from Telegram messages into a markdown file, sends reminders, and runs a weekly pattern analysis; this is a tutorial-style setup.
Track home maintenance from receipts and inspection reports
An agent classifies receipts and inspection reports, proposes maintenance tasks, and drafts vendor messages for a property owner.
Track investments over time via Claude Code and Robinhood MCP
Poster asks how to get Claude Code connected to Robinhood via MCP to keep tracking investments after researching or trading; a question, not a finished result.
Track Las Vegas flight prices and find return flights
The author asked Muse to check Vegas fares daily and find returns to San Diego; it gave only three options and ignored his preferences, so he found it underwhelming.
Track pantry stock from receipts and buy groceries
A custom AI system reads receipts, estimates kitchen stock, checks grocery store availability and prices, buys groceries, and suggests recipes.
Track personal finances nightly from bank emails
A non-coder had Claude Code build a finance tracker that pulls bank emails, categorizes spending, and runs nightly on a Raspberry Pi.
Track personal finances with a Claude Code assistant
The author built a Claude Code financial assistant using macro data over MCP and his own financials to track his finances, assess health and support investment decisions.
Track rare coffee beans with a scheduled Dot
A user had a Dot monitor rare US coffee beans twice a day using context from old chats, and it returned Gesha options priced per cup.
Track sleep, notes, code and earthquakes with a personal agent
An OpenClaw agent with access to Garmin, Obsidian, GitHub, a VPS and chat apps logs sleep, warns about late nights, deploys code, updates notes and monitors Tokyo earthquakes.
Track subscriptions and renewals from Gmail
The writer used ChatGPT Agent to search Gmail for renewal emails, extract service, date and cost into a list, and ask before unsubscribing; it also found cheap gas nearby.
Trade stocks via Robinhood MCP
A ChatGPT agent sold TSM shares and bought HOOD shares as part of an ongoing agentic trading challenge.
Triage 1,847 unread emails into folders with draft replies
An AI agent read email subjects, sorted them into 6 folders and wrote 12 one-line draft replies in 40 minutes.
Triage a founder's inbox with Claude Code and Gmail MCP
A team connected a Gmail MCP server so Claude Code reads the inbox, labels messages and drafts replies, plus calendar prep and reports.
Triage an inbox and plan a trip with Gemini Agent Mode
A writer had Gemini archive messages in 100+ unread emails and leave reply drafts, and describes it comparing hotel prices and holding a room.
Triage and draft replies for three email accounts
An OpenClaw agent drafted routine replies at about 70% ready quality and cut inbox processing from 10 to 2 minutes, though some things broke.
Triage care, estimate visit cost, and negotiate medical bills
An app directs people to the right site of care, estimates insurance-based visit costs, and uses an AI voice agent to negotiate bills down after the visit (US only).
Triage client messages into tickets and replies
A Slack watcher starts a Devin session on each new client message to investigate, create a Linear ticket, draft a response and route follow-ups.
Triage email by voice while walking
Allie Miller used ChatGPT voice mode with Codex to triage important emails, draft replies, archive or delete items and log action items.
Triage email, cancel subscriptions and manage calendars
A Grok Bot assistant triages multiple inboxes, drafts and sends replies, cancels unused subscriptions, and manages calendars with reminders and overlap checks.
Triage failed GitHub Actions runs and self-heal flaky tests
A QA engineer's OpenClaw agent reads failed CI logs, classifies failures, posts analysis to GitHub and Slack and opens issues; flakiness fell from 8% to 0.8%, though it once wrongly altered an assertion.
Triage inbox and prep meetings (with a failed attempt)
A Trustpilot user said Lindy made their inbox worse by missing urgent mail and hiding meeting invites, while the review says triage, briefs and CRM updates work.
Triage inbox, draft replies and manage calendar from a desktop agent
A reviewer used Scout to summarize a Microsoft 365 inbox, draft replies, manage calendar events, browse and work with local files; it needs the app open and can be costly.
Triage issues and open fix PRs with a GitHub bot
A cookbook shows a GitHub bot that triages issues, reviews PRs, answers questions with citations, flags AI-slop contributions, and opens patch PRs for human review.
Triage P2 bugs into draft PRs with demo videos
A Dot connected to GitHub and Slack watches #bugs, scopes and tests a fix in a cloud environment, and opens a draft PR with a short demo video.
Triage support emails and draft refund-policy replies with Claude
A consultant built a Claude agent that reads support Gmail, looks up orders, applies refund policy, drafts replies for human approval and creates triage records with optional Slack alerts.
Triage support emails and draft replies for human review
An n8n workflow classifies, prioritizes and summarizes each support email, drafts a reply and posts it to Slack for a person to send.
Triage support tickets and draft replies
A Claude Code skill builds scripts against support, billing and database APIs to list and triage tickets, gather billing context, draft replies, and run refunds and cancellations.
Triage unread email with an approval step with Make
Author built an agent that runs when unread emails arrive and analyzes each one, without auto-replying absent approval.
Troubleshoot a production-only performance issue
A developer used Cursor and Warp agents to analyze NestJS database queries and recommend indexes for a production performance problem.
Try Devin on research tasks (mostly failed)
Answer.AI had Devin fetch an author's recent papers and research transcript summarization; it got stuck parsing HTML and returned generic results, rated a failure.
Try to book a Warsaw to London trip with Claude with Claude
The poster tried to have Claude fully book flights and hotel via Expedia and Kiwi connectors, found them poor, and ended up building a travel booking project instead.
Turn a blog post into an animated infographic
A content creator fed a blog post into Gemini Canvas, which produced a coded animated infographic using brand colors and audience details from the chat thread.
Turn a business website into a WhatsApp support agent
An n8n workflow scrapes a website into a knowledge base, answers customer questions on WhatsApp and converts inquiries into booked calls.
Turn a handwritten grocery list into a cart
ChatGPT Agent transcribed 15 of 16 items from a photo, found the nearest store and added them to the cart, but missed onions and struggled with login.
Turn a handwritten list into a grocery order
A TechRadar writer scans a handwritten shopping list into Alexa and places an Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods order from it to avoid crowded stores.
Turn a keyword into approved Instagram content
A Make.com pipeline takes a keyword, generates AI content, sends it for email approval, and logs it to Google Sheets.
Turn a spreadsheet into a Meta ads account
Joel Jackson used the Manus agent to convert a spreadsheet directly into a Meta ads account through a native integration.
Turn a Telegram message into researched, designed social posts
An n8n agent takes a Telegram message, researches the topic, designs the posts and publishes them to social media.