Alongside a media tracker site he built for himself, he has it check in daily: local news alerts, and deal scans on the products he buys regularly, using price ranges he gave it, with a buy now alert when a price drops into range.
He and his wife hold pensions, SIPPs, property, mortgages and ISAs across seven or more places. He built a planner that aggregates and prices all of it, projects future values, and sends push alerts with rebalance signals when goals are met. The monthly Excel update he used to do by hand is now a five minute browse.
In shipwithmuse.live's errands catalog, one 'finding money you forgot about' entry reports a full sweep of every state's unclaimed-property database by name and past cities, which turned up $88.92. The catalog notes it was as reported by the build author and not independently audited.
He connected the AI to FreshBooks and ConnectWise through a connector he built, so his work time gets logged as he goes. Month end invoicing went from most of a day of typing to reviewing drafts.
Harry McCracken asked his Dot to research wireless carriers. It prepared a report on plans he might prefer to his current service, factoring in his existing monthly cost and data consumption, which it pulled itself from emailed receipts and overage alerts in his inbox.
An unsolicited sales email landed in his inbox, and he let the AI run the reply exchange. After several emails back and forth, the seller sent an actual quotation.
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.
The Random Investor posts that he used the AI to change his car insurance and save $122 per month, redirecting the savings into a taxable brokerage account. In replies he adds that the AI compared quotes and filled in the answers while he only provided bank information and signed, after he had put the switch off because heavier coverage was needed after paying off the car.