Turn daily standups into async updates
A Zapier team used two internal agents to collect standup notes and roll them into a shared summary, cutting five daily meetings to two weekly ones.
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What people are really doing with AI agents
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Use an agent to check apartment listings
An apartment-hunting agent missed broken links and bad matches before a later browser tool performed better.
ChatGPT
Turn newsletters into social drafts with a guarded workflow
They tried an agent to write and schedule social posts from newsletters, but after bad outputs they replaced it with a step-by-step workflow.
Zapier Agents
Use Operator to book a dinner table
Have Operator search for a restaurant and enter the reservation details while you watch and can take over at any point.
Operator
Use a browser agent to play Wordle
A computer-using agent tried the NYT Wordle puzzle through a normal browser and solved only a small share of runs.
Operator
Build a daily Reddit digest of AI tool chatter
Have an agent scan Reddit each day for discussion about new AI tools and write the most talked-about items into a document.
Lindy
Gather school financials into a spreadsheet
A writer used Operator to pull public financial figures for independent schools into a sheet before sending the data to o1 for analysis.
Operator
Check a prospect for risk before reaching out
A Lindy agent screened a resort for publicity problems and stopped the pitch before it started.
Lindy
Use agents to research leads and handle routine ops
A yacht-software CEO built a group of Lindy agents to qualify leads, answer support, and draft content without an engineering team.
Lindy
Use Operator to research one sales lead at a time
A tester used Operator to gather sales-prospect details from public sources, but it needed repeated guidance after a CAPTCHA and only handled one lead at a time.
Operator
Turn Slack research into a Notion page draft
Lindy reviewed past guides and a model in Slack, then prepared a Notion idea and waited for sign-off before making it.
Lindy
Set up Lindy agents for support, calls, and content
A solo founder used Lindy to build support, calling, repurposing, and negotiation agents for small teams and niche businesses.
Lindy
Try Operator on web errands before you submit anything
Cassie Kozyrkov tested Operator on several browser tasks, including paperwork, planning, and shopping, and found it was strongest when the job only needed a decent result.
Operator
Automate a weekly newsletter draft with research and exports
Annika Helendi used Lindy to gather weekly AI marketing news and draft a newsletter plus promo content on a Monday schedule.
Lindy
Draft weekday LinkedIn posts from trending topics
Have Lindy check trends each morning, write three LinkedIn draft posts in your voice, and send them to you for approval.
Lindy
Make a benchmark collage in Canva with an agent
A user had ChatGPT Agent assemble benchmark screenshots in Canva, but it struggled with the interface and made a messy result after more than 75 minutes.
ChatGPT Agent
Turn demo calls into CRM notes and follow-up drafts
Interlaced used Lindy to summarize sales demos, draft follow-ups, book meetings, and suggest proposals, saving over 5 hours a week.
Lindy
Track customer mentions and schedule milestone posts
An enterprise team used Lindy to watch customer chatter, draft milestone posts, build calendars, and publish them after review.
Lindy
Turn vet charges into insurance claim drafts
An OpenClaw agent matched pet clinic charges to invoices, filled an insurer form, and left each claim as a draft for review.
OpenClaw
Convert Slack posts or Sheet rows into Linear issues
Lindy can watch Slack or Google Sheets, then open Linear issues from matching items and save the issue link back to the sheet.
Lindy
Turn videos and papers into searchable Markdown libraries
They used OpenClaw to organize video and paper summaries into two separate Markdown-based libraries that could be searched later.
OpenClaw
Use an agent to buy items and watch the order
Set up an agent to shop from a product link, complete checkout, and keep checking the order until it updates.
OpenClaw
Use Telegram to run a VC research agent
Jonathan Shriftman wired OpenClaw to Telegram so he could ask it to research companies and help draft internal tools.
OpenClaw
Use an agent to hunt for smart contract bugs
A red-team benchmark let Claude search forked chains for contract weaknesses and draft exploit code in an hour.
Claude