Handle my Ralph Lauren coat return end to end and send me the barcode
Jen Lehner says she asked Instinct to handle returning a Ralph Lauren puffer coat. The agent managed the entire return process and sent her the required barcode.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Money
Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasThe AI redeemed a real $4 loyalty reward mid-conversation, all the way through Shopify checkout
Stabile Rewards had been building a way for AI shopping assistants to see and use a customer's loyalty points mid-conversation, and tested it live on their own Shopify store with a real test customer. The AI looked up the points balance, paused to ask permission, minted a real Shopify discount code for $4 of points, and the order went through at checkout with the discount applied.
$4
Get my defective product refunded through the Amex extended warranty
The AI pursued a refund for a defective product by claiming on the extended warranty attached to the user's Amex card, rather than the retailer's return window.
Audit my taxes and find my CPA's mistakes
In a thread about a Garmin MCP and privacy tradeoffs, a commenter says the AI found errors his CPA had made in his returns. Amending them recovered over $100,000, at the cost of feeding the agent a lot of personal financial information.
$100,000one time
Check my Webull trades against my strategy every day, read-only
The AI reviews the user's Webull account daily on a read-only basis and checks each trade against the user's stated strategy, flagging drift without placing trades.
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
Consolidated scattered household bills, flagged duplicate subscriptions, and picked a 5% cashback
The author listed monthly bills (electricity, water, mobile, Netflix, forgotten subscriptions). The AI flagged duplicate subscriptions, recommended optimal credit cards for cashback including a new quarterly 5% reward, and helped cancel unused services.
The AI watches special situations for me and sends a push notice when one changes
The same investor says he also has the AI watch special situations and send him push notifications when a situation changes. He mentioned it alongside the investing sheets the AI keeps updated for him.
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.
Close my books monthly and catch the invoice that would have escaped
An ‘Invoice Terminator’ the AI desk closes its owner’s month every month, pinging him only for 2FA and a final yes; on one run it caught a $64 Cursor invoice that would otherwise have escaped unpaid and unnoticed. The monthly close runs itself, with the human as a checkpoint, not a worker.
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