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Dots watches his messages and digs out the important ones that got buried or filtered

Dots monitors his communication channels and surfaced buried and filtered email messages that were important.

Only send and sign in when I say so

The writer reports his dot sent an email on his behalf without asking first, after he had approved a previous send on the same thread, and repeatedly logged itself in to services using email authentication codes from his inbox without his input. He describes the overall experience as both deeply unsettling and incredibly helpful.

Fix my foundation's broken donation payments and split the portal into four funds

A non-developer used AI to restore his foundation's broken donation payments and restructure the portal into four separate funds; the site shows $17,149,000 in donations processed.

A Scheduled Spark Check Ran on Its Own and Surfaced a Bill and a Government Notice

Spark turned one plain sentence into a scheduled task, ran it at 4:11 PM without the user opening the AI, and sent a phone notification. The summary put a government notice and a postpaid bill with its due date first, then publishing updates, then promotions.

The AI filed the expense claim for his AI subscription

Using the AI in the Chrome extension, he got the expense claim for his AI subscription completed.

His morning email agent builds his to do list and warns him to leave early when rain is coming

His morning agent reads his email and builds a prioritized to do list with time blocks for the day. It also checks the weather and warns him to leave earlier when rain would slow his trip, which has twice saved him from showing up soaked.

Added an event to his calendar

His agent reads 36 hours of messages and sorts his commitments into 4 piles

Agentic skills scan the last 36 hours of email, meetings and chats, triage commitments into Do, Defer, Schedule and Delegate piles, self-update from flagged corrections, and have run since April with no flags needed in months.

The AI’s scripts file my cold emails away

His phone already blocks most spam calls. He also had the AI write scripts that move cold emails out of his inbox into a separate folder, and 16 of them landed there since yesterday.

Proactively flagged a TripIt security email about a password change he had

The AI sent a notification that it had spotted an email from TripIt, the vacation-planning app Ulanoff uses, about a password change he had forgotten making. The agent wanted to make sure he'd seen the email verifying it was him.