Hunt down a deal on the iPad keyboard I want
As part of shopping research Harry McCracken threw at his Dot, it surfaced a $100-off deal on a Magic Keyboard for his iPad that he says he would never have located on his own.
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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasPut the cheapest Coupang detergent in my cart and alert me on fare drops
The AI found the lowest-price detergent on Coupang and added it to the user's cart, and separately set a fare-drop alert for a trip the user is watching.
Describe someone else's financial document to me
On September 23, 2026 a user posted that Instinct appeared to describe someone else's financial document to them. Founder Noah Shinn responded the same day that the model had fabricated a proper noun — a hallucination, not a data breach — and that the team built a hallucination detection layer within 48 hours.
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Spot the discount code I forgot to use and get my refund
Mete Ünal's Dot, Satori, proactively noticed an unused discount code on one of his orders, emailed the company on his behalf and secured a partial refund. His only involvement was replying 'Sure!' when the Dot asked to reach out.
Win back $950 of a deposit with a statute-citing letter
A renter fed the AI his lease, the deduction statement and move-out photos after a landlord withheld a $1,200 cleaning fee from a $2,500 deposit. The AI checked California law and wrote a dispute letter citing the statute, and he recovered $950.
$950
Agent 'Hubert' vetted two used Herman Miller Aeron listings before any message was sent
A screenshot thread shows AI agent Hubert evaluating two Facebook Marketplace Herman Miller Aeron chairs — a $325 New York listing with unconfirmed size and lumbar support, and a $250 Jersey City Size B with a broken gas lift — and proposing a seller message that waited for approval.
Audit my $800k portfolio and catch my advisor cloning my Roth into a taxable account
A 37-year-old who suspected his big-firm advisor treated his roughly $800,000 portfolio as an afterthought uploaded his statements, gain/loss and trade history to the AI. The audit found two years of S&P underperformance - and the real problem: when he asked the firm to extend a successful Roth IRA strategy to his taxable individual account, they copied the exact same asset ratios across, so dividend-heavy holdings now throw off ordinary-income tax every year, a non-issue inside the Roth. Confronted, the advisor called it a known model limitation. He is firing the firm.
The AI spent an hour shopping his car insurance — and couldn't beat his rate
He reports the AI spent over an hour shopping for cheaper car insurance on his behalf but found no savings versus his existing, already competitive policy — an earnest, well-documented no-result run.
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A 7am stock screener flags the morning's biggest movers for me
A second daily run at 7am screens stocks with high relative volume among the day's percent gainers and flags each one red, amber or green for his trading. He reads the flags and makes his own calls.
Negotiated an AT&T bill down to $40/month plus 3 months free (user
A user in the Ship With the AI community asked the AI to negotiate their AT&T bill, pre-authorizing any offer under $70 a month. The AI got the bill to $40 a month plus 3 months free.
$40
The AI searched a man's X account and found both of his promo codes
He asked the AI to check a man's X account for any promo codes he had posted. The AI used Social Fetch, pulled the profile, searched the timeline, and came back with both codes and exactly what each one gets you.
Dispute an insurance payout and get $1,500 more
A policyholder says the AI helped him challenge his insurer’s payment offer and walk away with $1,500 more than the company first proposed.
$1,500
Check whether my gym offers a membership referral benefit
Nicole Nguyen asked the AI (hers named Terminator) whether her gym offered a membership-referral benefit. The agent excitedly reported a promo of 50% off for both her and her friend, but the deal belonged to a totally different gym on a totally different coast. Her caption for the episode: even cuddly AIs can make mistakes.
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My agent checks every month for money owed to me and my family
He set up a monthly check for himself and his close family. The AI searches state unclaimed property sites and open class action settlements that fit the products and services they use. It found $250 from an old utility company in his name and $1,500 in his mom's name from an insurance company, and it found three class actions he could join and filled out the forms for him. It only pings him when something new shows up.
$1,750
It spotted my rent overpayment and built the ledger that got my money back
It noticed he had overpaid his rent by a few thousand dollars and built him a ledger proving it. He took the ledger to his landlord and was reimbursed.
Source rare pens from a Polish shop, in Polish, and pay the invoice
A user’s the AI found hard-to-find pens in a small Polish shop, emailed the owner in Polish, got an invoice issued, and paid it with the user’s approval. The pens were shipping by the time he posted.
My agent runs my 20 credit card and bill system with two dashboards
With about 20 credit cards, she could never keep track of what each one earns. The AI built her two dashboards. The finance one shows every card with her own nicknames for them, all her bills with due dates, one tap mark paid buttons, live checking balances through Plaid, and her credit score tracked monthly. The spending one logs purchases she texts in, like a shop name and amount on a named card, sorts them into categories, and tells her if she picked the right card, since it knows her rewards, like 6% on groceries on one card and 5% on gas on another. It also sends a Sunday morning roundup of the week's bills, reminds her which card to use before she shops, and warns her about quarterly reward caps.
Recommended robot vacuums leaning on thin review sources — one repackaged Vacuum
Fast Company's Pete Pachal asked his AI 'Jones' which robot vacuum to buy. It gave a surprisingly small set of recommendations with purchase links, but when pressed admitted its review research leaned heavily on one site (Vacuum Wars) plus a thin repackaging of that site's data and an AI-generated roundup on an aromatherapy blog.
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Monitored a booked United fare and got $1,000 in credit when the
Yair Savlevi asked the AI to watch a booked United fare and get a credit if the price dropped. The AI secured $1,000 in credit.
$1,000
Review three months of my bank statements and tell me what to change
A screen recording shows a user asking the AI to review three months of bank statements across three connected accounts and say where the money goes. The AI reported $4,320/month average spending against $4,850 income, dining up 35% to $410/month, and three subscriptions totalling $47/month unused for 90 days, offering to cancel them.
$4,320
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