Build my family a weekly meal plan in Notion
Steve Caldwell built a weekly meal-planning system in Notion on the AI for his household. The roundup reports it saves his family about an hour each week.
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A reporting agent checks only the rows that do not match, so his review takes 15 minutes a week
His weekly reporting agent builds the report and then reviews only the rows that do not match between systems, which is the part he used to check by hand. His own review is down to about 15 minutes a week and the setup has run for months.
Genworth Credit Surveillance Agent Reviews 1,000+ Documents Across 250 Funds
A Genworth alternatives analyst built a SharePoint-based credit surveillance agent in an AI app Studio. It reviews more than 1,000 documents across 250-plus fund investments and surfaces trends, risks and upside from completed deep reviews.
The AI spotted a wrongly-set device alarm within minutes from the log
A DO alarm was accidentally set to a past time and retriggered immediately; the AI caught it within a couple of minutes from its log tail.
My agent runs my whole job hunt every morning from a vault of 21 past resumes
He fed a career vault tool 21 resumes from the last 10 years plus weekly journal entries about projects, wins and goals. Every morning the AI pulls jobs that match his profile, tailors his resume per posting from that real history, generates the PDF, and fills out the whole application, then stops and waits for his review before anything goes out. Review takes him about 30 seconds per application, against 4 to 6 minutes each when he did it with AI. The post also promotes his own paid tool, so it is marked promotional.
The AI read my whole archive, 1.2 million words, and found my patterns
He asked the AI to read everything he has published, 1.2 million words on his site plus his social posts. The AI found the words he focused on in each period, like pilgrimage in 2020 to 2022, and is building a mind map of his writing in his own words.
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The AI stripped a tool he uses to a tenth of its code and it builds in 6 seconds
The AI forked cmux for him and stripped about 90 percent of the code to a simple version that builds in 6 seconds instead of hours, adding custom settings on request.
Get my defective product refunded through the Amex extended warranty
The AI pursued a refund for a defective product by claiming on the extended warranty attached to the user's Amex card, rather than the retailer's return window.
Asked the AI to optimize a $135 refinished coffee-table Marketplace listing for search
A furniture seller in a Facebook group shared screenshots of an AI conversation about a 'Refinished Solid Wood Coffee Table Set of 3 — Mission End Tables' listed at $135: with Marketplace search burying local listings, they asked the AI to optimize the listing for traction, testing it over the weekend before diversifying to Craigslist or consignment shops.
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Connected Gmail; the AI reminded him of an upcoming flight and completed check-in
Jason Zhang, testing the AI for a week, listed five uses: (1) flight check-in — Gmail connected, the AI reminded him of an upcoming flight and completed check-in in its private browser; (2) meeting scheduling — Google Calendar connected, creates events like 'Jason / Emma chat' without opening the app; (3) Google Docs drafting — asks the AI to generate drafts from his ideas, uploaded directly to Drive; (4) job applications via the private browser; (5) sending messages to friends via connected Messenger
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