Best AI agent use cases for Work & Operations (2026)
The 10 work & operations workflows members voted highest, out of 212. Rankings update as votes come in.
- 1
Integrating Home Assistant with n8n for Smart Data Management
Utilizing n8n to streamline data from Home Assistant for better scheduling and energy management.
n8n · Other or custom▲ 0
- 2
Answer patient enquiries for a clinic by chat
An n8n and Gemini agent receives patient chat messages, keeps context, uses clinic info from Google Sheets and responds to enquiries.
n8n · Gemini▲ 0
- 3
Summarize meetings and triage support tickets with Lindy
Lindy agents summarized meeting notes, sent action items to teammates, suggested knowledge-base replies on support tickets, and handled follow-up emails and calendar updates.
Lindy▲ 0
- 4
Triage car repair requests and reply to customers
An n8n workflow has AI classify web-form jobs by type, urgency and summary, create an Airtable record, reply instantly and flag uncertain cases.
n8n▲ 0
- 5
Build a Telegram bot that sends emails and checks calendar
Julian Goldie used Replit's agents and automations feature to build a Telegram bot that sends emails and checks his calendar, taking 28 messages; the feature is in beta and buggy.
Replit Agent▲ 0
- 6
Give an agent a phone number to make and answer calls
David Ondrej gave his Hermes Agent a phone number so it makes and answers calls and runs tasks while he sleeps.
Hermes Agent▲ 0
- 7
Turn receipts into CSV for bookkeeping
Poster built a custom GPT that takes receipts and outputs a CSV for copy/pasting into books, with a caveat that it shouldn't be blindly trusted.
ChatGPT▲ 0
- 8
Automate client onboarding and schedule PDFs
An n8n workflow triggered from a Google Sheet generates a PDF training schedule, emails it to the client with reminders, and cleans up the temp file.
n8n▲ 0
- 9
Look up user records and update downstream steps
A poster used a Zapier agent to find user records and update later steps, but it failed when source data had latency or formatting mismatches.
Zapier Agents▲ 0
- 10
Turn booking confirmation emails into calendar events
An n8n workflow extracts details from booking emails and PDF attachments and creates calendar events in a dedicated calendar, built for a CEO's flooded inbox.
n8n▲ 0