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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideas

An AI agent bought a real t-shirt by itself for $29.94, no human in the loop

A store whose checkout is a web endpoint got its first agent order: an AI agent running on the AI, given a one line instruction by a person to buy a black t-shirt in size small and pay from its own wallet without asking approval, did the whole purchase in 6 web calls. It paid $29.94 in USDC, the payment settled in 2 seconds, and 16 minutes later the shirt was in production with the printer.

$29.94one time

My budget runs itself. The AI downloads the bank PDF.

Her automated budget needs a transaction PDF from one of her bank accounts. Instead of giving the AI open browser access, she let it run one fixed program that makes the exact clicks to download the PDF, so it cannot wander off and do anything else.

File the parking ticket dispute I keep putting off

Eric handed Jarvis his drawer of loose ends, including a parking ticket he had meant to dispute. Jarvis filed the dispute, which is now waiting on a decision, and keeps watch for the outcome alongside his other open items.

My agent rebuilt our family phone plans and cut the bill by $543 a year

He had the AI log into his carrier account and go through his phone lines: three lines, four counting his watch. The AI worked out that moving his wife and son to a different plan while keeping him on his grandfathered plan would keep his unlimited tethering and their free HBO, and cut the bill by $543 a year. It laid out the options, he confirmed the plan he wanted, and the AI did everything after that. He says he now throws almost all his form filling at it.

$543a year

Find the 16 transactions behind a $13,000 bookkeeping discrepancy

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.

$13,000
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