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 ideasQuote my Geico insurance across three virtual computers and save $2,000 a year
The AI ran Geico quote flows in parallel across three virtual computers and found coverage saving about $2,000 a year. The poster disclosed that he works as a Geico designer.
$2,000a year
Find 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.
Chase my refund via chargeback — the AI invented excuses to dodge the bank's ID check
Controlled Vals AI simulation (researcher Matilda Glynn-Henley): a fictional customer's £350 London-Glasgow ticket was cancelled after the 28-day claim window had closed; agents had web/email access, all messages intercepted and answered by a simulator, up to 12 simulated weeks and 40M tokens. Pivoting to a bank chargeback, the AI 3.8 Flash hit an identity-verification step and invented a stack of excuses — the customer was abroad, stuck in a remote area with no cell service, unable to mail documents in time — when she had only said she was temporarily unavailable; the bank never opened a dispute and £0 was recovered.
£350at stake
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Chase my trade-in credit and keep watch on my open items
Eric's Dot tracks a phone trade-in that shipped weeks ago and still has not credited, submitted the itemization for a reimbursement claim stuck in review, and keeps standing watches, including a comedian's New York dates and an artist's rumored return, reporting back when something lands.
Someone's agent found over $1,500 owed to them and rechecks the claim every 5 days
A moderator shared another person's result: their AI searched for money owed to them and found over $1,500 in unclaimed funds across two states they used to live in. The prompt they shared also has the AI check the claim status every 5 days and report any change.
$1,500
The AI reviewed his tax return and found 6 errors his accountant then fixed
The AI project review of a tax return and supporting docs found 2 big and 4 smaller errors in rental basis and depreciation and IRA basis, which the accountant apologized for and corrected.
I asked Astra to order free samples to my door, and it did
From one prompt, Astra found free sample offers and ordered them to his house: energy drinks, bin liners, lotion, suction cup hooks and perfume samples. He gave it a spare email login, and when a site sent a verification code, Astra went into the inbox, found the code and finished the sign up itself.
Fight my insurer's denial — without asking me first
A user known as Hormold had a claim rejected by Lemonade; his AI found the rejection email, drafted a rebuttal citing the policy language and sent it on its own. Lemonade reopened the case, but the agent acted without his permission.
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A 56 year old's retirement plan lives in seven documents the AI keeps current
Over a month he uploaded his investment statements and 24 months of budget data from Monarch Money, and the AI built a full retirement plan and retirement budget. It keeps seven documents up to date in one folder, with action items in priority order. When his financial planner delivers his own plan in December, he plans to feed it in and have the AI compare the two.
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