Have a phone agent plan a refundable business trip
A Dot found a policy-safe flight and hotel, then lined up a booking after comparing timing, maps, and photos.
Dots
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What people are really doing with AI agents
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Set a twice-daily check for hard-to-find coffee beans
A Dot used old chat context to watch for rare U.S. coffee beans and returned Gesha choices with prices worked out per cup.
Dots
Manage outreach and link-building follow-up with a Dot
A Dot handled prospect research, outreach sending, and status tracking for a link campaign while flagging items that needed attention.
Dots
Use agents to research campaigns and draft marketing copy
Tony Nissen used OpenClaw to automate marketing research, content outlines, and first-pass copy, while still checking the work himself.
OpenClaw
Let a Dot assemble a narrated video edit
A creator used a Dot to find footage, lay in visuals, and add captions around a recorded narration in Descript.
Dots
Use Scout to sort mail and calendar tasks
A reviewer used Microsoft Scout to summarize email, draft responses, and handle calendar work from the desktop app.
Microsoft Scout
Track public document changes for teaching updates
An educator used a Dot to watch public documents, rank likely teaching impacts, and compare draft notation with linked pages before suggesting edits.
Dots
Plan a trip, then tighten the rules after feedback
A travel agent found a flight-and-hotel option using stored preferences, then changed its memory after a debrief and searched again.
Hermes Agent
Use Devin for small pull requests
A team handed Devin narrow fixes in their repo, then reviewed the tests and pull requests it produced.
Devin
Use an agent to keep Zoho Books reconciled
Hermes Agent helped a founder draft bills, import bank data, and match Stripe activity while an accountant checked the ledger.
Hermes Agent
Set up an always-on assistant for email and scheduling
Two users kept Hermes running nonstop to handle email, browsing, forms, and calendar chores, with one linking Obsidian tasks to Apple Calendar and reminders.
Hermes Agent
Build and verify a simple endpoint app
Devin created a small Node.js Express service, tested its routes, and added error handling in about 4 minutes.
Devin
Turn voice memos into structured Obsidian notes
Have an agent convert spoken Telegram messages into Obsidian notes with a transcript, a tighter version, linked context, and a draft.
Hermes Agent
Find local leads that seem to lack websites
An agent searched Northwest London for plumbers without websites and narrowed the results to three outreach-ready leads.
Hermes Agent
Have Devin add a third-party token endpoint in your repo
A developer had Devin build a backend token endpoint from docs, then cleaned up the pull request through a few review cycles.
Devin
Use agents to build an email list from outreach
Drew Carr combined lead checks, email verification, and comment drafting to add about 1,000 subscribers in roughly 80 days.
Hermes Agent
Check merged PRs for docs drift each week
Use a weekly agent run to spot merged code changes that should have updated documentation.
Hermes Agent
Automate lead research and CRM cleanup
Use Claude Code to research prospects, enrich records, and draft CRM updates while keeping risky steps under review.
Claude Code
Check restaurant availability, then verify the reservation details
An April 2026 test found that AI agents could search restaurant tables, but they still needed a person to finish the booking.
ChatGPT AgentClaude
Turn ticketed work into PRs and repair failing checks
Cognition used Devin to turn Slack and Linear requests into pull requests, then keep fixing review and CI issues until checks passed.
Devin
Refactor a large repo with parallel agent workers
One developer had an agent break a huge cleanup into many parallel tasks and merge a PR that cut non-test Python by 34.4%.
Hermes Agent
Use Devin to build, debug, and ship app setup work
Devin handled app scaffolding, repo debugging, and deployment setup in demos and early user reports.
Devin
Teach an agent a visual style and generate matching art
A designer used Hermes Agent to learn a whiteboard-like look from references, package it as a skill, and then create images in that style.
Hermes Agent
Use Replit Agent to build a searchable company map
A software engineer had Replit Agent turn Wefunder listings into a searchable Leaflet map, then fixed bad API results by loading the data themselves.
Replit Agent