Work as the virtual assistant for my cleaning business
For a cleaning business, the AI manages contacts, drafts client messages, chases reviews and maintains the CRM, holding every outbound message for approval before it sends.
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Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,669 ideasFAILURE: Screen 250 applicants against my wish list — 14 interviews had to be cancelled
Kuli Kuli founder Lisa Curtis had the AI evaluate 250 applicants for a director role against her job description while applications kept arriving, and her assistant booked everyone who cleared the screen. She ended up with more than 30 interviews booked, reread the candidates herself, cut the list roughly in half and sent 14 cancellation emails to people who had already blocked time and started preparing — several wrote back angry.
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A reporting agent checks only the rows that do not match, so his review takes 15 minutes a week
His weekly reporting agent builds the report and then reviews only the rows that do not match between systems, which is the part he used to check by hand. His own review is down to about 15 minutes a week and the setup has run for months.
Run my surplus-auction flipping business on an AI-driven opportunity board
A three-person flipping operation runs on a custom app steered through AI over MCP: it identifies what is actually inside vaguely described government surplus lots by hunting service tags in the auction's spreadsheets and model numbers in its photos, values each lot against sold comps, and overlays a buy/watch/pass call with a max bid on GovDeals as they browse. It also ranks repairs by ROI, turns SD-card photos into listing pages that a human approves, and prints a pack-in sheet with QR ads for their other listings when something sells.
I filed a civil complaint I wrote with three AIs
She wrote an unlimited civil complaint using three AIs, mostly the AI in Word because it could change the document itself, with AI and the AI for a second and third opinion. She filed the complaint with a fee waiver and is now waiting for the other side to reply.
His work pattern: LLMs test and rewrite legacy modules until users feel the speed
At work he prompts LLMs to write extensive tests for legacy modules, rewrite them cleanly, and pass the tests again; users report the software suddenly responsive in under a second and customers are happy.
My coding agent stored prices as floats. 3 invoices came out a cent off.
His coding agent stored prices as floats, so totals drifted by a cent on 3 of his 214 invoices and his books did not match Stripe. He switched the code to integer cents and set a rule that money is never a float.
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The AI runs guest outreach for a livestreamed news show — with a human check before anything goes out
For her livestreamed news show SCN, the AI automates guest outreach: it organizes prospects by industry and checks with her before publishing anything or spending money.
His team's agents keep a live wiki of decisions and status that he steers from
His team has coding agents write and update a wiki of decisions, open questions and status as they work, which he reads to set direction for the next agent sessions on real projects.
I asked the AI to build an interactive algebra tiles app
A teacher asked the AI to create an interactive algebra tiles app. She posted the link so other people can try it.
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