Flag my bounced card payments and tell me how to fix them
After a Zapier writer connected his dot to his real Google account, it proactively flagged card payments that had bounced and suggested ways to fix them. He ended up having to cancel a card.
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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasFind couches that fit my doorway and watch them for price drops
WIRED's Reece Rogers gave his Dot, Toolie, his doorframe dimensions and budget by voice. Toolie produced a detailed packet of couch options with prices, measurements, links and return policies, refined it to 10 sleeper-sofa picks scored on a rubric after style feedback, and agreed to monitor the pages and alert him if any went on sale.
I registered my Dubai company for VAT myself. The AI filled in the tax forms.
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.
Track my phone trade-in until the credit actually lands
Eric shipped a phone trade-in weeks earlier and the credit still had not appeared. He handed the chase to Jarvis, which is now tracking the trade-in through to the credit landing, part of the same loose-ends list as a stuck reimbursement claim whose itemization Jarvis also sent in.
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Found the Batman by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale Omnibus at $74.99
Digbly treated its the AI avatar 'Amani' as a personal shopper for comics, controllers and games. The baseline-plus-deal-hunt prompt surfaced the Batman omnibus at $74.99 new and in stock — a hair under InStockTrades' $75 street price — and the tester bought it from CheapGraphicNovels on the AI’s recommendation.
$74.99
The AI set up his automated budget exports into a local database
Had the AI install DuckDB and it is now running automated exports into DuckDB for his budgeting.
The AI filled out his Swiss taxes from a folder of documents and he just submitted
A man put the local tax law, the tax guide, and his and his wife’s documents, bank statements and income statements into one folder and asked the AI to fill out their 2025 Swiss taxes. He says there was nothing to fix, and he submitted it.
It stayed on the phone with AT&T for 98 minutes across transfers and got me a discount
Another user describes the AI’s phone work. It called AT&T and argued for a discount because his service is poor where he lives, staying on the phone with real people across multiple transfers and departments for 98 minutes, and got the discount. The amount is not stated. His other two cases from the same comment are recorded separately where they stand on their own.
Find me an extra $500 a month in my own accounts
Joe Urbinati set his AI 'Greg' a goal of finding an extra $500/month, connecting his financial accounts via Plaid. Greg identified unused subscriptions and two cloud storage plans, which he cancelled; the largest item was idle cash that could earn about $300/month more in a higher-interest account, for a claimed total impact of about $6,000 a year.
$6,000a year
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Canceled a home internet plan and secured a $75 inconvenience-fee refund from
A Reddit user asked the AI to cancel their home internet plan. The AI canceled it and secured a $75 inconvenience-fee refund from the provider.
$75
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