Automate a weekly RSS newsletter draft
One person uses OpenClaw to gather feed items, rank them, draft intros, and wait for approval before sending the newsletter.
OpenClaw
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What people are really doing with AI agents
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Track down broken builds and draft the fix
OpenClaw was used inside OpenAI to diagnose failing builds, link them to incidents, and sometimes prepare and merge repairs.
OpenClaw
Build a morning email and schedule assistant
Claude Code can wake up early, sort messages, adjust your calendar, and map out the day before you start work.
Claude Code
Build weekly expense and tax summaries from your records
Have Cowork turn receipts, transactions, and email history into reports and maintenance logs.
Claude Cowork
Use Claude Code to research leads and prep CRM outreach
A developer had Claude Code score prospects, enrich CRM records, and draft personalized outreach, then reviewed and sent everything manually.
Claude Code
Build a lead-finding and email-drafting workflow
They used n8n to collect local business leads, enrich them, draft outreach, and store everything in Google Sheets for review.
n8n
Use Claude in Chrome to seek a billing credit
Claude in Chrome handled a live AT&T billing dispute and secured a $100 credit without a person stepping in.
Claude in Chrome
Run multiple social accounts with scheduled agents
A developer used three OpenClaw agents and cron jobs to draft, publish, answer comments, and track results across 10 accounts.
OpenClaw
Let a browser agent handle Substack edits and migration
Claude in Chrome completed three Substack jobs on its own, and the writer later confirmed the posts were updated correctly.
Claude in Chrome
Screen candidates and record scores in your CRM
Have an agent review interview transcripts, score each candidate against your rules, and save the results in your CRM.
Lindy
Use Claude to work through tax papers in a folder
A Reddit user pointed Claude at their tax documents, and it built returns that matched the numbers in TurboTax.
Claude
Set up a private finance analyst in Claude Code
They used Claude Code with Baselight data to make a local assistant that reviews finances, tracks decisions, and keeps future actions on file.
Claude Code
Use Claude Code to spot macOS layout bugs
A developer let Claude Code compile a Mac app, open it, and click through screens to find visual problems.
Claude CodeClaude computer use
Search papers and save notes to Zotero
A researcher used Claude to find papers, check a personal Zotero library, and write short literature notes back into Zotero or Obsidian.
Claude
Test an iOS app and collect bugs automatically
Use Claude Code to drive an iOS app through its accessibility tree, visit screens, and return a structured bug report.
Claude Code
Build a competitor deck and comparison sheet from one prompt
One ChatGPT Agent run found five UK coffee subscription rivals and turned the findings into a deck and spreadsheet in 18 minutes.
ChatGPT Agent
Build a plain-English Canvas course manager
A non-developer educator used Claude Code to make a Canvas tool that handles course lookup, submissions, forums, announcements, and gradebook export.
Claude Code
Connect Home Assistant voice requests to an n8n workflow
They routed Home Assistant voice queries through n8n so an agent could answer questions and run automations.
n8n
Let an agent fill a Walmart cart for pizza ingredients
A reviewer used ChatGPT Agent to gather homemade pizza items at Walmart and stopped before checkout.
ChatGPT Agent
Build LEGO CAD models in LDraw with an agent
Have an agent plan, generate, and check an LDraw LEGO model from a text brief.
ChatGPTClaude
Build a robot arm CAD package from a single request
A text-to-CAD setup turned one prompt into a multi-part robot arm model with motion logic, a viewer, and export files.
CodexClaude Code
Have an agent call a restaurant for a reservation
When online booking is full, an agent can phone the restaurant, talk to staff, and try to land a cancellation slot.
OpenClaw
Build an Instacart cart for a charcuterie board
Perplexity Comet filled an Instacart cart with about 20 ShopRite items in roughly five minutes, then stopped before checkout.
Perplexity Comet
Use LinkedIn posts to build a reviewable outreach list
A writer had Perplexity Comet find laid-off LinkedIn prospects and prepare custom messages from a logged-in account.
Perplexity Comet