Port my mobile number in under an hour and cut the cost 75 percent
The AI ported the user's mobile service to a new provider in under 60 minutes, cutting the ongoing cost by 75 percent.
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Refunds, bills, deals and money you were owed · 465 ideasMonitored a booked United fare and got $1,000 in credit when the
Yair Savlevi asked the AI to watch a booked United fare and get a credit if the price dropped. The AI secured $1,000 in credit.
$1,000
Analyse my credit card statements and cut $675 a year
Heather ('AI at Home with Heather') says she gave the AI access to her credit card statements to analyse spending and recommend better cards; it also flagged unused subscriptions. She cancelled a discount flight-alert service she no longer uses and downgraded Spotify Premium, for claimed savings of $675 a year found in about an hour — a figure she admits may be slightly exaggerated.
$675a year
Price-shopped undershirts, found the cheapest in the user's size at JCPenney, loaded
The Yet Another Value Blog author needed new undershirts and asked the AI to find the cheapest ones in his size, even matching his last brand. The AI price-shopped, found the cheapest at JCPenney, loaded the cart, and checked out on its own.
Compare wireless plans against what I actually pay and use
Harry McCracken asked his Dot to research wireless carriers. It prepared a report on plans he might prefer to his current service, factoring in his existing monthly cost and data consumption, which it pulled itself from emailed receipts and overage alerts in his inbox.
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.
Found $5,000+ in subscriptions via Plaid and canceled $1,300 of them as
Nate B. Jones (11K followers) joined what he called a 'viral challenge for the AI': connecting bank accounts through Plaid, the AI identified more than $5,000 in subscriptions he was paying and canceled nearly $1,300 worth for the coming year.
$5,000
It cancelled my Adobe plan and got $400 of membership fees back
Answering a thread asking for the coolest thing people had done with AI, he reports two cancellations. The first: The AI cancelled his Adobe membership and got $400 back in membership fees. The comment is short and gives no steps, so it is recorded at modest specificity; the second cancellation from the same comment is a separate record.
$400
Find it on Amazon — and label four non-Amazon results as Amazon listings
Given the same product-search prompt as a comparison system, the AI returned four results in at most 30 seconds and described them as Amazon listings with Prime delivery, but none of the four came from Amazon. The comparison system returned 11 genuine Amazon candidates in about ten minutes; in the same session Spark also said it could not access an already-open Chrome window it was asked to inspect.
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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
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