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The AI helped him take over the low rate mortgage instead of refinancing

His mortgage servicer first said his loan could not be assumed. He used AI to research why the loan did qualify, draft the letters and request packages with the supporting evidence, and find the right government complaint portals when the lender kept stalling, and the assumption went through instead of a refinance at current rates.

$65,000one time
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Hunt my lost 401(k) through twenty years of mergers with AI

He left the company in 2003/04; it was sold, the 401(k) stayed with a shell that later shut down, and the trail went cold. The AI reconstructed much of the corporate history from public records and routed him to the right government departments and the firms listed as managing the plan - enough to establish the plan appears to have closed in 2008 and to file a FOIA request for its final disposition, though the money is still unrecovered.

This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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The AI runs my side of my home insurance claim

A pipe burst in his house two months ago. He now has the AI run his side of the claim. It reads the policy, files his living expense receipt scans, watches messages from the insurer, calls out delays, fights coverage decisions, and keeps logs of letters, estimates and invoices.

This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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