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Set up MCP access for a household wiki
They attached an MCP server to Wiki.js so an LLM could edit household pages.
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Turn a PDF into an interactive course
An agent read textbooks and PDFs, built lesson sections, filled in interactive blocks, and sent the course to a second agent for review.
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Set up behaviors for a small ROS2 robot
A builder used an onboard agentic OS to program a compact robot through behaviors, code tools, and ROS2 topics.
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Use an agent to chase Dutch rental viewings
Uprent’s agent monitors Dutch listings, sends viewing requests, and helps manage landlord messages and calendars.
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Use an AI recruiter for first-round candidate screening
A company used an automated recruiter to email and call applicants for the first HR screen before any human spoke with them.
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Use a research agent for systematic literature reviews
A Reddit thread points to tools that can help with systematic reviews, paper notes, and keeping a project organized over time.
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Build a stock research agent for updated company reports
They made a stock-research tool that refreshes reports on tracked companies using live market data instead of stale chatbot answers.
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Set up follow-ups and reorder alerts for a distributor
A food wholesaler used chained agents to find leads, send outreach, and surface simple inventory reorder alerts for human approval.
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Let AI triage resumes before human review
Recruiters used AI to condense applications, filter obvious misses, and leave the final shortlist for a person.
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Use an AI phone agent to book a clinic visit
A clinic’s phone AI took over an appointment booking call, handling the scheduling without a human receptionist.
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Scan Reddit and X for likely leads
They set up an agent to watch Reddit and Twitter for product-related mentions, then reviewed the best matches and follow-up exports.
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Use a voice agent to book a DMV slot by phone
A voice agent placed the call, worked through the phone menu, and set up a DMV appointment for Olivia Moore.
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Set up an appointment agent for calls and chats
A clinic used an AI agent to answer, book, and move appointments across phone, text, and web chat.
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Draft a claim appeal and insurer follow-up call
Counterforce Health turns denial paperwork into a cited appeal and a callback script, then lets a voice agent check on the claim.
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Compare dealership quotes and push for a lower price
An agent gathered offers from nearby dealerships and used them to negotiate a better car deal.
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Turn supplier invoices into QuickBooks bills
Use an agent to read incoming supplier invoices and draft QuickBooks Online bills for review.
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Use Ghidra tools to map a binary faster
An MCP bridge let an agent decompile code, trace relationships, and rename symbols inside Ghidra from Claude or Cursor.
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Set up an agent to clear customer support tickets
A small team used an agent to handle incoming support cases after a crash left hundreds of customers waiting.
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Let Zendesk handle routine product questions
A support team used an AI agent in Zendesk to answer common product questions and free staff for other work.
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Turn receipt photos into ledger entries
They used a chat bot to read receipt images, pull out key expense details, and stage them for review in a ledger.
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Compare sale headphones and stop before checkout
A poster used a browser agent to compare headphones on Amazon, then finished the purchase themselves at the payment stage.
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Build a bot for a real-time strategy game
They used LLM-written code to control bots in strategy-game benchmarks and had them compete in tournaments and ladders.
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Assemble a R coding agent from three basic tools
They wired a Claude agent in R to file and shell helpers, then hardened it with safer path checks and editing functions.
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