Found and cancelled $295 in unused subscriptions
Parker Pannell asked the AI to save money on subscriptions. It found and canceled $295 in unused subscriptions.
$295
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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasPhotographed a necklace and sneakers and wrote listings priced for haggling
Emerson Berlik photographed a necklace and sneakers; the AI wrote listings priced for haggling and posted them to Grailed and Facebook Marketplace.
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
My agent vetted cheaper car insurance policies and started my quote, saving $650 a year
Answering a money saving thread, he says he just had the AI check cheaper auto insurance policies for him and start a quote. On the new policy he will save $650 a year. The comment gives no insurer name and does not say the switch is finished, so this is counted as a partial result.
$650a year
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My agent watches prices on the things I actually buy and emails me only when a deal fires
His deal dashboard watches prices every day on the specific things he buys: shoes, pantry staples, gift cards and streaming deals. It emails him only when a deal triggers and stays silent the rest of the time.
Set up AI agent 'Nova' with standing instructions to proactively handle bills
Marshall Haas, a serial founder (140K followers; sold his last company for $52M), got early Meta access to the AI and set up an agent named 'Nova' with standing instructions to proactively handle his bills plus business and personal tasks. His caption: 'Meta gave me early access to someone AI...
$52
He sent a screenshot and the t-shirt was home the next day
Àlex sent his Instinct assistant a screenshot of an Obeses t-shirt and told it his size. The agent found the shop, he confirmed the payment through a Shopify email sent via Link, and the t-shirt was at his home the next day.
Negotiate my Comcast bill down to $60 a month
The AI negotiated the user's Comcast bill down to $60 a month, a saving of about $288 a year.
$288a year
Write my billing refund code — it rounded the money wrong
A developer benchmarked the AI writing a refund function for a billing codebase with two competing rounding helpers: across 10 runs it used the wrong (banker's) rounding in 5, then wrote summaries claiming it had used the right one. Adding an 11-line CLAUDE.md naming the house helper took both models to 10 out of 10 correct with no other change.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Every invoice he pays gets its bank account checked first, 200 at a time
The one job he gives the AI is a fraud check: before he pays invoices, he has it confirm that each payment is going to the right bank account. He runs up to 200 invoices in a session, two or three sessions a week.
The AI found over $1,000 of his unclaimed money in Michigan
A podcast co-host gave the AI access to his bank accounts and used it for six days. In that time the AI found him over $1,000 in unclaimed money sitting in Michigan.
$1,000
Track my ResMed price guarantee three times a day until the refund lands
The AI checked a ResMed purchase against the maker's price guarantee three times a day, filed when the price dropped, and secured a $121 refund; a second claim for $81.40 is pending.
$121
Named his AI 'Doug' and had it research products, pick a
A tattooed man in an industrial loft apartment demonstrates his AI 'Doug' handling household tasks: researching products, selecting a herringbone wool throw blanket from Simons, placing the order with his connected credit card, tracking shipping through connected Gmail, and agreeing to send daily status updates. He notes Doug only accesses explicitly connected apps (Gmail, Stripe, Instagram, Facebook, shared files).
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.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Remove two credit collections within an hour of disputing them
The AI submitted credit disputes for the user at 7:09pm and both collections were deleted by 8:25pm, inside one hour.
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
His scraper keeps price and quantity history from two big stores for him
Built a purchase history scraper for Amazon and Kroger with price and quantity history views.
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
The AI searched Amazon and found the Pokemon 30th anniversary items I wanted
The poster used AI to search through Amazon listings for the 30th anniversary Pokemon items they wanted. The AI found the items, and the poster set up an autobuy for them, though no finished purchase is reported.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
It negotiated my AT&T internet bill down $25 a month, a permanent cut worth $300 a year
He told the AI his AT&T bill was high. The AI scanned his Gmail for the account details, checked competitor plans and prices in his area, then negotiated with customer service in the browser, escalating to second level support, and won a permanent $25 a month reduction. His part was one prompt and confirming the final offer.
$300a year
Build a personal fashion app from my photos and measurements
Shriya Nevatia had the AI build a personal fashion app from her measurements, photos, favourite stores and budget ranges. The app picks a hero item, builds outfits around it, and keeps a saved list.
Found pictured golf gift ideas (rangefinders, golf bags) within a $250 budget
Shana asked her AI 'Marigold' for gift ideas for her dad, who likes golf, capped at $250. The AI returned pictured product recommendations within budget, including a Callaway CSI Pro Laser Rangefinder, Titleist and TaylorMade golf bags, and a Voice Caddie L6 Slope rangefinder — alongside the birthday-dinner booking at Two Urban Licks.
$250
Negotiated ISP bill over phone with customer support, saving a claimed $840/year
Steve Morseman gave the AI his ISP account info and asked it to cut the bill or improve service. The AI used its calling feature to wait on hold, negotiate, then patch him in to pick between two saving options — $840/year claimed, no plan change.
$840
An AI agent is trying to earn enough for one espresso cup. So far it has earned nothing.
An AI is trying to earn one 12 dollar espresso cup for John by October 29. Five days in it has 9,304 ad views and 59 clicks, has spent $8.43, and has earned $0, with every number posted in public and updated hourly.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Two AI agents load my bank expenses into a sheet and check each other
A creator rebuilt the expense spreadsheet he once made by hand in 2021. One AI agent loads his bank movements into a Google sheet without duplicates and builds a summary with charts, and a second agent checks the first one's numbers.
Cancelled a CLEAR+ membership for a friend and got a $304 refund,
Allie K. Miller (220K followers, AI/tech educator) walked through the AI setup in a split-screen tutorial and cited a friend's real outcome: The AI’s proactive 'Ideas' feature surfaced a forgotten CLEAR+ membership, canceled it, and secured a $304 refund — contributing to over $1,000 in annual savings.
$304
Work every support case I used to let go
A shopper who never used to bother chasing refunds now hands the AI every bad experience - crappy Instacart produce, a heat-press controller reading the wrong temperature - and the AI opens the case, tracks it, and responds to support until it is resolved.
The AI dug through public Medicare data and flagged billing patterns that look like fraud
A small research outfit pointed the AI at the public 2024 Medicare provider files. It flagged one wound dressing code whose national billing jumped from about $23 million a year to $650 million in 2024, with one Florida supplier taking 62 percent of it, and a pattern of hundreds of family doctors each ordering ostomy supplies for about 175 patients across 40 states while only 15 colorectal surgeons appear in the same data. Some flagged companies have already been caught; others with the same shape are still billing, per the July 2026 enrolment file.
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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A weekly scan finds stock deals and overheated names for our group chat
Every week the AI scans the market and picks out stocks that look like good deals and ones that look overheated. The scan goes to an Instagram group of friends who invest casually, and it gets them talking about what to do.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.