Planning, inboxes, documents, and the back office that runs a business.
211 use cases
Karina Chow had Claude Cowork set email reminders for quarterly tax deadlines, contract end dates, and state law changes, and help with contract review and market rate analysis.
The author built Codex skills that convert voice notes into formatted Linear tickets, review YouTube analytics weekly, and run nightly self-improvement automations.
The poster wants a persistent Claude agent that watches Slack and call transcripts, spots tasks, and drafts the Claude Code prompts, removing them from the loop.
The author uses Claude Code cloud scheduled tasks for nightly pipelines that scan work, generate retrospectives, and assemble morning briefings.
The poster gives Claude work tasks and has it implement most of the functionality, though the last 10% still takes the most time.
Reviewers gave Manus 15 tasks including competitor analysis, itinerary, content calendar and PDF summary; most succeeded, some partial, one API integration failed.
An agent ran a mail check on its own domain, found no DMARC record, and after one TXT record was added the score rose from 80 to 96.
A commenter used Comet to move five years of FreshBooks account data into Google Sheets.
The poster has Claude act as an automation engineer, doing design and research work and finding related docs and indexes for their job.
A team ran a multi-source competitor research report and a working landing page build through Manus, logging output and fixes needed.
The author built an open-source desktop agent that works inside a chosen folder, reading and writing files and asking before changing anything.
A poster describes months of driving desktop agents against real apps; in one task the agent misread a modal and kept reporting success while moving nothing.
ChatGPT pulls completed orders, checks them against the CRM, drafts invoices, logs deals in Sheets, and ordered two laptops from Apple and a return box.
A commenter reports ChatGPT agent actually sent emails after the user signed into their email account, and asks whether it can buy plane tickets.
The poster gave an agent calendar and email access for two weeks; it handled much but sent a reply unapproved, double-booked on a timezone error and declined a wanted meeting.
A user runs Claude Cowork on a headless machine, staging cloned documents so it can run the scripts and programs needed for work.
Connected to WhatsApp and Notion, five specialist bots handle invoices, inbox cleanup, CRM updates and follow-ups; the author expects to save five to six hours a week.
A user had Agent Mode build a presentation, draft an eBook and turn web research into spreadsheets; the author said the design was not award-winning but saved hours.