All use cases
Pull Substack post stats via computer use
Charlie Hills has Codex Computer Use open his Substack dashboard and collect figures for every published post, for apps lacking MCP connectors.
Pull wallet data from dashboards into a spreadsheet
Claude computer use operated the desktop, handled logins and modals, and entered wallet numbers into a spreadsheet over 19 minutes.
Qualify, enrich and book demos for SaaS leads
A Lindy agent qualifies, enriches and books demos around the clock for SaaS lead gen, with mock conversion reported rising from 40% to 78%.
Qualify leads and draft emails pending human approval
An n8n workflow dedupes and AI-scores leads and drafts personalized emails, sending via Gmail only after human approval.
Qualify real estate leads and book viewings
An AI assistant qualifies leads on Telegram, matches listings, books viewings from calendars, and logs to the CRM.
Qualify scraped leads and write personalized openers
Claude Code researches company news for icebreakers, qualifies leads from scraped lists and writes personalized opener variations.
Qualify website visitors and book calls automatically
A builder made an n8n booking agent that chats with website visitors, qualifies them, and books call slots around the clock without humans.
Query 600 GB of Hacker News, arXiv, and LessWrong in plain English
Claude Code writes the SQL and vector queries against a public read-only index, and can set email alerts for nuanced criteria.
Queue maintenance and bug fixes for Cursor background agents
A developer authorized the GitHub app so Cursor background agents cloned repos into sandboxes, branched, and worked through a day's queue of maintenance, features and bug fixes.
Race three models to build a Counter-Strike clone
InstantDB had Codex, Opus, and Gemini each try to build a multiplayer shooter.
Rank CRM prospects and draft outreach with Codex
A demo has Codex pull CRM data, rank top accounts, and build a 13-slide deck with per-account strategy and draft outreach emails.
Read and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files
OfficeCLI is an office suite built for agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files.
Rebook a delayed flight connection mid-flight
OpenAI's Dot chatted with Alaska, Delta and KLM, found a new route and rebooked Denis for free after he approved, while he was still on the plane.
Rebook a work flight to save money
Arden texted a user that rebooking his Zurich flight would save $7,750; after he approved, it changed the flight and the refund hit his corporate card.
Rebook after a flight cancellation
ChatGPT Work mode found replacement flights, arranged a rental car, and consolidated the new travel arrangements after a cancellation.
Rebuild a math curriculum into a one-year plan with materials
Claude restructured an accelerated math curriculum into one year, writing tests, games, worksheets, a schedule, and a hosted site integrated with a teacher planner.
Rebuild a platform and add RAG features in one day
A user had Replit Agent rebuild a full-stack platform, add 7 features to a live RAG app, and make a demo video in about 12 hours.
Recommend a hotel from client notes using Codex
A travel advisor had Codex use client notes to recommend a Belmond hotel in Italy, checking live booking engines and generating a detailed Word doc.
Recompile a 1991 assembly PC game with Claude Code
The author uses Claude Code CLI with Sonnet to get the source of their 1991 386+ assembly game compiling again.
Reconcile bank statements with invoices
Cowork cleaned vendor names, categorized expenses, matched invoices to transactions, flagged missing ones, built an Excel file and renamed invoice files.
Reconcile industry files and chase clarifications with agents
An agent workflow ingests a complex industry file, loads it into a database, spawns agents to check it against work in flight, and contacts people to resolve bad data.
Reconcile monthly business transactions
Claude Code pulled a month of transactions over MCP and matched bank rows to receipts, proposing categories; it reconciled 200 rows but miscategorized 11, caught in a manual audit.
Reconcile orders, draft invoices, and order laptops nightly
ChatGPT pulls completed orders, checks them against the CRM, drafts invoices, logs deals in Sheets, and ordered two laptops from Apple and a return box.
Reconfigure Home Assistant lighting automations
Levelsio used AI to rework Home Assistant so bright LEDs turn off and diffuse lights come on, with all lights off at 10pm and red for sleep.
Record how you work, then automate the repetitive parts
Screenpipe records screen and audio locally and gives agents a searchable memory to turn repeated tasks into procedures.
Record meetings and suggest answers live from uploaded files with Claude
An open-source Mac recorder transcribes calls and, using the user's uploaded files, suggests answers when it hears questions.
Recreate a video ad as a JavaScript animation with Claude
The author had Claude recreate a downloaded ad video as a pure JavaScript animation with the original audio, working autonomously with ffmpeg in under an hour.
Refactor a million-line repo with 1,393 subagents
A Nous Research developer had Hermes dispatch 1,393 subagents over about 19 hours to clean up its own repo, cutting non-test Python source by 34.4% in a merged PR.
Regrade assignments and update grades in Brightspace
A professor had an agent regrade TA-graded assignments, verify answers with Claude, and revise grades and feedback in Brightspace, catching missed issues.
Repair formal proofs for a verified garbage collector
Codex edited files and ran builds to repair CertiGC proofs; it handled local repair well, but humans had to check that its invariants preserved the specification.
Replace token-heavy Jira and GitLab MCPs with CLI skills
The author had Claude run --help on Atlassian and GitLab CLIs, saved the actions as Markdown, and built lightweight agent plugins that cut token use.
Reply to cold emails and book sales calls
Grok Bot answered cold email replies, qualified leads, checked calendar slots, booked 20 sales calls in 8 days, and updated the CRM within guardrails.
Reply to outreach responses from email and LinkedIn inboxes
Claude Cowork scans email and LinkedIn inboxes and replies to outreach responses, while another workflow writes first lines from prospect site and LinkedIn research.
Repurpose a newsletter into social content
One Cowork prompt turns a finished newsletter into a carousel, reel script, LinkedIn post and Substack note; it also built a Notion hub.
Repurpose customer interviews into posts and newsletter copy
A reusable Cowork skill turns one customer interview into a blog post, LinkedIn update and newsletter paragraph, with human review at each stage.
Reschedule meetings and send daily briefings
OpenClaw checks availability, updates events and drafts confirmations for reschedule requests, and sends daily briefings via messaging apps.
Research a blog post with Claude computer use with Claude computer use
The author used Claude computer use with Claude in Chrome to research the post itself, suggesting starting with a logged-in site and a specific lookup.
Research a person and write a bio
An Inc. writer had Muse research them via its browser and write a bio, but objected that it accessed private messages unasked.
Research AI training case studies and build a summary deck
A team had Agent Mode research case studies from McKinsey, PwC and similar firms and make a slide deck in 32 minutes, with some image and overlapping text issues.
Research and benchmark competitors into a deck and spreadsheet
ChatGPT Agent mode researched the top 5 UK coffee subscription companies, benchmarked their USPs, and produced a deck and spreadsheet from one prompt in 18 minutes.
Research and buy online with approval at payment
Grok Bot researches options, prepares orders via Stripe Link and shows a spend request with merchant, total and description before paying; one example covered meal planning and grocery orders.
Research and compare SaaS tools and refactor Python
Reviewers had Manus find the top 10 project management tools, compare pricing in a table, and refactor a 400-line Python script that ran cleanly.
Research and download scientific papers with a browser agent
A commenter built a custom browser agent to research and download scientific papers, and also uses browser agents for controlled data entry.
Research and draft a social science paper with Deep Research
Author used ChatGPT Deep Research and Agent Mode for research help and writing assistance while writing an academic social science paper.
Research and draft cold outreach with Claude Code
Claude Code handles research and drafting for cold outreach while a separate platform sends at scale.
Research and help rebook a flight with an always-on agent
An Every writer's Dot researched a flight change and flagged a clash with a colleague's recording, learned from a Slack discussion.
Research buying a yak
Manus navigated sites, handled pop-ups and summarized findings, but took 15 minutes, used 300 credits, and needed manual takeover when stuck.
Research calendar guests and send a Slack briefing
The author built a Zapier agent that researches Google Calendar guests via web search, drafts a short summary, and sends it on Slack.
Research companies and fill a CRM for outreach
Claude Code researches target companies, creates Attio CRM records via MCP, builds personalized reports and drafts outreach; a first run contacted 80 companies for one sale.
Research conference speakers and organize tabs
Comet researched 50 HumanX speakers, surfaced themes and podcast guests, built a camera spec table, and cleaned up tabs.
Research content from Slack and draft Notion guide ideas
A team DM'd Lindy in Slack to summarize a year of guides and research a model, and it created a Notion guide idea after asking for approval.
Research crypto assets and execute swaps and perps trades
The Midas Markets agent researches assets, analyzes portfolios and PnL, finds tokens by momentum, and executes swaps and perp positions on Hyperliquid.
Research date restaurants and activities with OpenClaw
A PR founder has OpenClaw research South Florida restaurants and activities and compile a linked document explaining each pick for the type of date.
Research dentist offices and build an outreach CRM
Manus found 40+ Los Angeles dental offices with contact details across directories, then built a CRM app with dashboard, profiles and notes.
Research hotels and pull tax documents with Chrome auto browse
A tester used Gemini in Chrome to research Lisbon hotels across sites and fetch tax documents from payroll portals; it stopped before placing a grocery order.
Research hotels for a 14-day Japan trip
Manus searched Booking.com for well-rated hotels, cross-checked reviews and transit, and returned three options per city; the author rated it 7/10 on availability handling.
Research laptops and build a comparison table and deck
The reviewer had ChatGPT Agent research budget laptops over about 30 minutes; research was decent but the deck looked cheap. It also built a multi-tab Excel file.
Research newsletter ideas into a Notion backlog
A Content Researcher Bot researches an idea across YouTube, the web via Tavily and X, and adds findings to the author's Notion content backlog.
Research on X, summarize YouTube transcripts, build decks
@Tape_Vector uses Comet for X research, summarizing YouTube video transcripts and building presentations.
Research prospects before pitching them
A Lindy agent built for a side project researched a prospective resort, found a PR risk and avoided pitching it.
Research purchases for delivered price and working coupons
The poster built an agent that compares real delivered prices, tests every coupon it finds, reads owner feedback and goes through checkout without ordering.
Research Reddit customer pain points with a skill
The author replaced a Reddit research agent with a Codex skill that finds pain points, verifies communities, collects evidence, clusters problems, and analyzes commercial signals.
Research restaurants and hotel availability for trips
A writer used Comet to browse Michelin restaurants for Copenhagen, check Japan hotel availability, and look for deals.
Research sales leads with Operator
Testers ran Operator on lead research; after a CAPTCHA handover it lost its mission and returned generic company profiles instead of qualified leads.
Research stock positions as an AI analyst
A Claude Code agent twice weekly covers about 15 positions and a watchlist with news synthesis and bull/bear cases, while a human sets risk limits and approves trades.
Research stocks by pulling filings and transcripts
The poster has Claude Code fetch filings, transcripts and SEC documents for a company, cite sources, and write a bear case on a holding.
Research the web visually by browsing pages
A commenter uses ChatGPT Agent Mode for visual web research, with the agent opening and working through pages.
Research US stablecoin adoption with an agent
A Manus agent connected to Heurist's mesh ran deep research on US stablecoin adoption in 2026 after one approval step, finishing in two minutes.
Reserve a restaurant table through OpenTable
In a demo, Operator booked a 7 p.m. table at Beretta in San Francisco via OpenTable, first searching the wrong region before correcting and asking for approval.
Resolve a declined flight payment from email
With email access, Meta Muse spotted a declined flight payment, found the new debit card email, confirmed payment, and added the flight to the calendar.
Resolve a Slack-reported issue with a coding agent
A Codex agent resolved an issue passed to it in about 40 minutes, and an ops agent verified the fix back in Slack.
Resolve bank customer chats with an AI chatbot
Commerzbank's Bene chatbot, now on Gemini, handles over two million chats and resolves 70% of inquiries.
Resolve customer calls proactively with AI agents
TELUS uses Gemini Enterprise for CX agents to proactively resolve customer calls; Google's case study reports 30% of calls resolved and issues resolved 87% faster.
Resolve customer support tickets autonomously
The author built an autonomous support agent for a three-person team facing 847 waiting customers, reporting 500+ tickets a day and a 94% resolution rate (self-reported).
Resolve git merge conflicts and push a fix
A tutorial shows Scout comparing both sides of merge conflicts, proposing a merged file for review, then committing and pushing to a branch.
Resolve helpdesk tickets end to end for online stores
An agent inside a store's helpdesk reportedly processes refunds, creates shipping labels and edits subscriptions on Recharge, Loop and Skio (roundup claims).
Resolve routine support tickets and prep daily briefings
Lindy agents handle routine support tickets and, for one founder, prepare daily briefings and manage calendar conflicts, per a vendor-published case study.
Restyle a pull request to match repo house style
A developer asked Claude to update a PR to the repo's house style, but it only rewrote comments to be lowercase and less useful, making no code changes.
Reverse-engineer a 1997 PC game and make it run on modern hardware
Claude Code got an old DirectX game running on modern hardware, decompiled much of it, built a headless parallel runner, and now writes full level guides with screenshots.
Reverse-engineer a book file format to search it with Claude
After the RAG indexer crashed on an uploaded book, Claude used Unix commands to work out the file format and grep the book manually.
Reverse engineer a classic game ROM via Ghidra MCP with Claude
The author connected Claude to Ghidra through MCP to analyze and rename functions in an Atari River Raid ROM.
Reverse engineer a Go binary with Ghidra via MCP
Huli had Cursor drive GhidraMCP to identify a Golang binary, list its routes and find a path traversal, but it missed the SQL injection check.
Reverse engineer a patch into a full exploit chain
A researcher used Claude Opus in Claude Code with Playwright MCP to decompile code, find vulnerabilities, and build a working exploit.
Reverse-engineer binaries in Ghidra
An MCP server exposing 110 Ghidra tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering.
Reverse engineer Claude Desktop to find a path to Linux support
A maintainer pointed Claude at the minified Claude Desktop app to find why Cowork only runs on macOS; it found the VM and sandbox layers and mapped a route to Linux.
Reverse engineer legacy systems without source code
Thoughtworks consultants used Gemini 2.5 Pro in a two-week pilot to produce validated blueprints of legacy systems' functionality.
Review a landlord deposit dispute for legal violations
A tenant used ChatGPT and Gemini to review a landlord's apartment deposit dispute, identify legal violations, and avoid losing $4,200.
Review contracts like NDAs and SaaS agreements in Claude Code
The author built an open-source contract-review skill for Claude Code and other AI coding tools to review NDAs, SaaS agreements, vendor terms and merchant agreements.
Review GitHub pull requests automatically
An n8n AI agent triggers on each new PR, fetches diffs, calls an LLM for a review, and posts comments and labels back on the PR.
Review GitHub pull requests for bugs and security
A Hermes tutorial reads a PR diff and returns a structured review of bugs, security and code quality, then turns it into a skill that watches repos and sends summaries.
Review IRS Tax Court case files and draft a settlement letter
A Tax Court defendant used Claude in Chrome to open and summarise portal documents in about 20 minutes, then Claude Desktop and Claude Code to organise evidence and draft a settlement letter.
Review Linux kernel patches
Google engineers launched Sashiko, an agentic AI code reviewer for the Linux kernel.
Review Meta ad performance inside Ads Manager
An agency tested Manus on a real ecommerce client's Meta ads account; it reported a 14.25x ROAS against an actual 1.76x and corrected itself only when challenged.
Review Slack channels for business issues
Lindy reviewed Slack activity across sales, support, inventory and reviews for a clothing business and returned a report on demand, support issues, low stock and feedback.
Review support tickets and synthesize product feedback
Grok Bot reviews human and bot-handled tickets, coaches, flags long back-and-forths, posts daily Slack reports and synthesizes feedback.
Revise courses from student evaluation feedback
A professor had Claude Code summarize course-evaluation PDFs, filed themes as GitHub issues, and used agents to revise his security course and two others.
Rewrite a README after a rearchitecture
Devin scanned a rearchitected codebase and delivered a new README as a PR with accurate setup and API details, but struggled with design rationale and purpose.
Rewrite a runtime from TypeScript to Rust with agents
GitHub engineers used Copilot tools to have agents write most of an 800,000-line Rust rewrite of the Copilot runtime across 128 PRs, fixing a few regressions.
Rewrite low-CTR meta titles and audit sites for SEO
An SEO agency tests Claude Code with a CMS API and Search Console to rewrite meta tags for low-CTR pages, push changes, and audit robots.txt, sitemaps and structured data.
Route customer reply emails to Freshdesk
An n8n workflow catches customer replies to order confirmations and forwards support requests into Freshdesk.