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My agent watches my golf club statement and caught 140 dollars of other people's charges

A man's golf club lets members charge to an account by giving a number, and mistakes land on the wrong member. The AI built him a watcher that opens his club statement every morning at 8:20, spots new charges by their ticket numbers, and texts him each receipt with the running balance. In two months it caught a 25 dollar and a 115 dollar charge from other members that he would never have spotted.

$140

How it works

  1. The AI builds the watcher in about an hour
  2. Every morning it opens his saved club portal session
  3. It compares ticket numbers against yesterday
  4. New charges are rendered as receipt images and texted to him with the balance
  5. Quiet days send nothing

Why it’s worth knowing

The saving did not come from budgeting advice. It came from a daily receipt check that caught strangers' drinks on his account.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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