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The MBI Deep Dives author writes that the AI tracks a set of data points he cares about and reports daily, including GPU prices, the App Store ratings race between the AI, the AI and the AI, and insider buy/sell transactions in stocks he owns. He describes using roughly 200 million tokens a week on a $20/month plan.
Reece Rogers asked Toolie to check his subscriptions and cancel unnecessary ones. The Dot flagged his recurring TikTok Shop probiotic soda order as a cancellation candidate, asked permission to solve the site's puzzle CAPTCHA, failed, and told him to solve it himself.
The post shows a chat where the AI reports the new rate is live: $9.99/mo + tax ($11.29 effective Oct 15, down from $13.46), includes CNBC, no contract, reverting to ~$26/mo after 12 months unless renegotiated. When asked 'so did you save me money?' the agent answers '$2.17/month, about $26 over the year.'
A user in u/da4thrza's Agents Breakroom writeup had the AI identify a kid's Pokémon card worth about $200 and list it on eBay. The agent priced the card from its knowledge and handled the listing.
X user someone asked the AI to review their finances and claw back cash. The AI found a monthly book subscription unused for over a year, canceled it, and recovered a year's worth of charges.
Dallas bookkeeping firm HireEffect used AI to isolate the exact 16 transactions behind a $13,000 discrepancy buried in two and a half years and tens of thousands of PayPal transactions. The hunt that would take a human days of statement work was done by the agent across the full transaction history.
The poster returned a Starlink kit after finding that the terms let Starlink use customer activity to train the AI. Starlink's the AI agreed to an $84.75 refund, then changed its mind six weeks later.
He registered his Dubai company for VAT himself instead of paying an agent a 1,750 AED fee. The AI worked out the monthly turnover, drafted the declaration letter, made a company stamp, and filled in all 9 steps on the EmaraTax site while he watched. He signed and hit submit.
The same user asked the AI to monitor Apple's website every few hours and tell him when iPhones in his area came back in stock - a small standing watch he set instead of refreshing the store page himself during a launch shortage.
Freelancer Justin Blaze Martin posted on X on Oct 19 that the first thing his Dot did was go through his three inboxes and find a $4,000 invoice from July that he had forgotten to send a client. The Dot assembled the invoice from the email thread and had it ready to send after his approval.
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