Real AI use cases, in plain words
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You work inside a company. Use your own AI on what anyone can read: news, filings, public websites. Walk into meetings prepared.
Public info only. Never paste company or customer data.
Explore work casesPersonal
Dinner ideas from what's in the fridge, a monthly money check-in, flight price alerts.
23 cases
Explore life casesBusiness
Shopify product descriptions, answers to customer questions, simple helper bots.
33 cases
Explore business cases
For your own life and home
Review which senders flood your inbox, decide keep or unsubscribe with an assistant's help, and let Gmail send the unsubscribe requests you approve.
For running a business
Add tools to an AI by Zapier step so it can look things up and act across your apps, with per-tool approval, a task limit and Zap history, then migrate any old Zapier Agents.
For work, using public info only
An agent researches each target account and prospect, then drafts personalised outreach for a rep to approve.
76 use cases
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An agent drives a real browser to complete repetitive web forms and portals, pausing for you before anything is submitted.
Browser Use · Claude computer use · Playwright
Review which senders flood your inbox, decide keep or unsubscribe with an assistant's help, and let Gmail send the unsubscribe requests you approve.
Gmail · any chat assistant
Describe a routine such as bedtime or leaving home, let Gemini for Home or Alexa+ draft the automation, then review and save it yourself.
Google Home with Gemini · Alexa+
Once a month, give an assistant a redacted spending summary and your goals, get a plain-language review against a simple budget, and decide your own next steps.
CFPB spending tracker · ChatGPT scheduled tasks · any chat assistant
A Socratic tutor that guides students with questions instead of handing over answers.
Claude for Education · Claude Projects
Have an assistant turn an official maintenance checklist and your appliance list into a seasonal plan with recurring reminders, and book any contractor yourself.
ENERGY STAR checklist · ChatGPT scheduled tasks · Gemini schedules
Have an assistant sort rent, repair and improvement records into a simple ledger and folder plan that matches IRS recordkeeping guidance, for you or your tax preparer to review.
any chat assistant · a spreadsheet
Ask your wearable's built-in AI coach about weekly trends in activity, recovery and sleep, and turn the answers into small, realistic habit goals.
Fitbit personal health coach · Oura Advisor · ChatGPT Health
An agent sorts incoming mail into ignore, notify and draft-a-reply, and queues drafts for your approval.
LangGraph · Gmail API · Agent Inbox
Use an assistant with travel apps to research flights, stays and a day-by-day plan, add it to your calendar, and keep the final booking in your hands.
ChatGPT apps (Expedia · Booking.com) · Gemini · Google Calendar · Google Flights
Turn your household's tastes, diets and schedule into a weekly meal plan and a ready-to-review grocery cart, with you approving any order.
ChatGPT · Instacart app in ChatGPT · Alexa+
Use an assistant and AHRQ's free Question Builder to turn symptoms, medications and worries into a short list of questions to bring to your visit.
AHRQ Question Builder · ChatGPT Health · any chat assistant
Use your watch's sleep tracking and score, then ask an assistant connected to your health data what changed and which routine tweaks to try.
Apple Watch Sleep app · Apple Health · ChatGPT Health
Keep one family calendar, let an assistant turn school emails, flyers and chat into events, and confirm every change and invite yourself.
Google Calendar family calendar · Gemini · Alexa+
Schedule a morning summary of your day and a few recurring reminders in ChatGPT, Gemini or Alexa+, and keep the list short and reviewed.
ChatGPT scheduled tasks · Gemini schedules · Alexa+
Link a teen's ChatGPT account to parental controls or supervise a child's Gemini access with Family Link, and agree family rules on privacy and use.
ChatGPT parental controls · Gemini with Google Family Link
Build a bill calendar and a subscription list from your statements, get reminders before due dates and trial ends, and cancel only what you decide to cancel.
ChatGPT · Gemini · any calendar app
An agent researches flights, hotels and itineraries against your preferences and prepares options; you confirm any booking.
Claude · Browser Use · MCP servers
Use built-in AI in your email app to summarise long threads, pull out due dates as reminders and draft replies that you edit and send yourself.
Gmail with Gemini · Alexa+
Speak your thoughts on the go, let a voice-to-tasks tool or a transcript plus an assistant turn them into dated tasks, and review the list before saving.
Todoist Ramble · Apple Voice Memos · Apple Notes · any chat assistant
Set up ChatGPT's study mode or Gemini's Guided Learning so a student gets hints, questions and quizzes instead of finished answers, with a parent in the loop.
ChatGPT study mode · Gemini Guided Learning
Set up price tracking for a route or a specific flight, let an assistant summarise the alerts, and decide yourself when to buy.
Google Flights · any chat assistant
Compare products in an AI shopping assistant, set a target price, get alerted when it drops, and approve any purchase yourself.
Google Shopping price tracking · AI Mode in Search · Gemini · Alexa+
An AI support agent answers routine order, shipping and return questions from your knowledge and skills, and hands the rest to your team.
Shopify · Gorgias
Build an n8n AI Agent node with tools and MCP servers, require human approval for risky tool calls, and test it with evaluations before it touches real data.
n8n · an LLM provider such as OpenAI · Anthropic or Google
Add tools to an AI by Zapier step so it can look things up and act across your apps, with per-tool approval, a task limit and Zap history, then migrate any old Zapier Agents.
Zapier · AI by Zapier
Remove a messy background from a listing photo in the eBay app and place the item on an AI-generated backdrop, then review it for honesty.
eBay app
Use the AI options in Seller Central's Add Products flow to draft listings from a short description, up to three images, your own product page or a bulk spreadsheet.
Amazon Seller Central · Add Products · A+ Content Manager
An agent that reads incoming tickets, looks up customer context, resolves routine ones and routes the rest to humans.
Claude · Zendesk or Help Scout · Order database API
Turn a product title and a few keywords into a first-draft description from the product editor toolbar, then edit before saving.
Shopify · Sidekick
Ask Shopify Sidekick for a sales and inventory projection, or use a forecasting app, to turn sales history into reorder suggestions and draft purchase orders.
Shopify · Shopify Sidekick · Inventory Planner Essentials
Swap a plain or messy product photo background for a solid color or an AI-generated scene in the Shopify file editor, or extend the image to a new shape.
Shopify · Sidekick media generation
An ambient scribe captures a clinical conversation and drafts a note that the clinician reviews and signs.
Microsoft Dragon Copilot · EHR integration
A triage agent answers new-hire questions and hands off to IT, payroll and benefits specialists, escalating sensitive cases to HR.
OpenAI Agents SDK · Python
Generate lifestyle images and short video ads from your ASINs in Amazon Ads Creative Studio, then A/B test them against your current creative.
Amazon Ads Creative Studio · Image Generator · Video Generator · Creative Agent
A triage-and-specialist agent collects claim details, checks completeness, and hands off to an adjuster with approval gates.
OpenAI Agents SDK · LangGraph · Python
An agent extracts invoice fields, matches them to purchase orders, flags exceptions and queues clean ones for approval.
Azure Document Intelligence · Claude · Accounting system API
An agent in Teams or your intranet answers common IT questions, runs approved fixes and files tickets for the rest.
Microsoft Copilot Studio · Microsoft Teams · ITSM tool
An agent reads a contract against your playbook, highlights risky clauses with exact quotes and drafts questions for a lawyer.
Claude · Word or PDF documents · Playbook checklist
Photograph an item in the eBay app and let Magical Listing draft the title, category, item specifics and a price suggestion, then check every detail before posting.
eBay app · eBay Seller Hub
Record or import a meeting, get a transcript, a summary and a list of owners and actions ready to send after you approve.
Meetily · Ollama · Claude
Use Amazon's AI review highlights, plus an AI assistant on your own exported reviews, to find recurring praise and complaints.
Amazon review highlights · AI assistant (Claude · ChatGPT or similar)
A crew of role-based agents researches, drafts, edits and packages marketing content for human approval.
CrewAI · Python · An LLM API
Parallel agents score vendor proposals against your requirements and produce a comparison table for a buyer to decide.
Google ADK · Python · An LLM API
An agent drafts listing copy from property facts and qualifies inbound leads, routing hot ones to an agent.
LangGraph · Python · A CRM or spreadsheet
An agent summarises applications against a written rubric and flags gaps, while people make every hiring decision.
Claude · ATS API · Spreadsheet
Use Amazon's Automate Pricing rules to keep offers competitive within minimum and maximum prices you set.
Amazon Seller Central Automate Pricing · Selling Partner API
Ask Amazon's built-in Seller Assistant about your business, then set up guarded workflows that monitor stock, pricing and ratings and act only with your approval.
Amazon Seller Central · Seller Assistant
Ask Sidekick in plain language to analyze sales, edit products and draft content, save repeat prompts as skills, and approve every change.
Shopify · Sidekick
An agent finds meeting times across calendars through MCP tools and drafts invitations for your approval.
Google ADK · MCP · A calendar API
An agent enriches each security alert, decides if it looks benign or serious and hands analysts a short case file.
Microsoft Security Copilot · SIEM · Threat intelligence
An agent triages mentions, drafts replies, and holds them for human approval before anything is posted.
OpenAI Agents SDK · LangGraph · Python
An agent watches shipment events, diagnoses delays, proposes fixes and waits for approval before acting.
Google ADK · LangGraph · OpenAI Agents SDK
A speech-in, speech-out agent handles appointment requests, with handoff to a person for anything unusual.
OpenAI Agents SDK · Python · A telephony provider
A planner splits a question into sub-questions, parallel searchers gather sources, and a writer assembles a report with citations.
GPT Researcher · Claude · Web search API
A lead agent plans research and parallel sub-agents read filings and transcripts, then a citation pass produces a sourced earnings brief.
Claude API · Microsoft AutoGen · Python
An agent researches each target account and prospect, then drafts personalised outreach for a rep to approve.
AutoGPT Platform · GPT Researcher · CRM
Assign an issue to a coding agent that works in a sandbox, runs tests and opens a pull request for you to review.
GitHub Copilot cloud agent · SWE-agent · OpenHands
Store document embeddings in Postgres, search by meaning, and restrict results per user with row level security.
Supabase · pgvector · PostgreSQL
Model an agent as a graph with memory, resumable runs and approval points, using LangGraph in Python.
LangGraph · LangChain · LangSmith
Describe an app to Bolt in plain language, plan it first, let Bolt Cloud add the database and login, test with dummy data, run a security check and publish.
Bolt.new · Bolt Cloud · GitHub (optional) · Supabase (optional)
Describe what you want, review Agent's plan, let it build and test, roll back with checkpoints, then publish.
Replit Agent · Replit
An agent comments on every pull request with a summary, bug risks and improvement suggestions before a human reviews.
PR-Agent · GitHub Actions · Claude or OpenAI
Expose files, databases or an internal API to an AI app, the MCP host, through a Model Context Protocol server.
Model Context Protocol · Claude Code · Cursor
Ask business questions in plain English; the agent writes read-only SQL, runs it and returns tables, charts and a summary.
Vanna · PostgreSQL · Claude
After code changes merge, an agent proposes documentation updates as a pull request for human review.
Claude Code · GitHub Actions · Git
Describe a page or app, refine it in chat or visually, and publish to Vercel or push to GitHub.
v0 · Vercel · GitHub
Expose internal data and actions as MCP servers so any compatible AI agent can use them under least-privilege rules.
Model Context Protocol · Claude Code · MCP servers
When an alert fires, an agent investigates metrics, logs and deployments read-only and posts likely causes to the on-call engineer.
HolmesGPT · Prometheus · Grafana · Slack · PagerDuty
Describe an app in chat, get a working frontend, backend and auth you can publish and sync to GitHub.
Lovable · GitHub
A coding agent writes tests for untested code, runs them, and iterates on failures until a reviewer approves.
Claude Code · Your test runner · Git
An agentic RAG assistant that searches company docs, checks relevance, retries with a better query, and answers with context.
LangGraph · A vector store · An embeddings API
Install Ollama, pull a model and call its local REST API from your own code without sending data to a hosted service.
Ollama · Python
Hand multi-file coding tasks, tests and commits to an agent that works inside your repo from the command line.
Claude Code · Git
Assign a well-written issue to Copilot cloud agent (formerly coding agent), review its pull request like any contributor's, and approve workflow runs yourself.
GitHub Copilot · GitHub
Use Cursor's Agent to explore a repo, plan bigger changes in Plan Mode, roll back with checkpoints and run Agent Review before you commit.
Cursor · Git
I wanted to know how far my own AI could go with public information alone. Public info only. Your employer's AI policy comes first.
A planner splits a question into sub-questions, parallel searchers gather sources, and a writer assembles a report with citations.
GPT Researcher · Claude · Web search API
A lead agent plans research and parallel sub-agents read filings and transcripts, then a citation pass produces a sourced earnings brief.
Claude API · Microsoft AutoGen · Python
An agent researches each target account and prospect, then drafts personalised outreach for a rep to approve.
AutoGPT Platform · GPT Researcher · CRM
OpenAI's assistant, which in the US can link to your money and health information.
In my experience, it's where I reach for my personal life.
An app for a small team of AI bots that, SpaceXSI says, keep working in your apps.
In my experience, it's where I reach for business growth with a team of bots.
Anthropic's assistant for handing off real tasks, and a place to build your own agents.
In my experience, it's where I reach for professional work, though it can span all three tracks.
A new everyday-life category covers meals, bills, calendars, inboxes and the rest of an ordinary week, with you still approving the important steps.
A model is the engine and a harness is the vehicle. The three stages are you drive, the car drives you, and the car works for you.
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