Work & Operations
Run oral final exams with a voice agent
A professor used a voice agent to examine 36 students over 9 days, with an LLM council grading transcripts and surfacing class-wide gaps.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Planning, inboxes, documents, and the back office that runs a business.
211 use cases
Work & Operations
Run routine store checks on delayed orders and stock
A commenter runs Claude against their store to check delayed orders, stalled tracking, and stock issues; the poster is connecting an assistant via MCP.
Claude
Work & Operations
Regrade assignments and update grades in Brightspace
A professor had an agent regrade TA-graded assignments, verify answers with Claude, and revise grades and feedback in Brightspace, catching missed issues.
Claude Code
Work & Operations
Grade papers and build lesson plans for teachers
Author built a proof-of-concept app using ChatGPT prompt templates to grade papers, generate lesson plans, and give feedback.
ChatGPT
Work & Operations
Draft lesson plans and school paperwork for teachers
A teacher used ChatGPT for lesson plans, reflections, PowerPoints, assessment notifications, and marking, saving hours of planning.
ChatGPT
Work & Operations
Run a business assistant that resumes project work
Poster linked a ChatGPT-based assistant to OpenClaw on an old Mac to resume project work, but it keeps forgetting the app's business goals and audience.
OpenClaw
Work & Operations
Draft parent-teacher communications
A teacher says ChatGPT handled all their parent-teacher communications for a month, and they also tried it for lesson planning.
ChatGPT
Work & Operations
Source suppliers and negotiate deals overnight
An agent found suppliers for an online store, negotiated, handled a sample refusal, and locked in $4.50/unit for 100 pieces needing one decision from the owner.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Manage rentals and arrange apartment tours with Claude
A property manager's team uses Claude in Chrome for routine management work, with a database so the AI can answer questions and check schedules to help arrange apartment tours.
Claude in Chrome
Work & Operations
Organize Canvas courses with an in-platform agent
Instructure says early adopters use its IgniteAI Agent to rename modules consistently, bulk-change due dates, and rebuild course pages; this comes from a vendor video with no named users.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Create assessments and grade papers for classes
A teacher's co-teacher uses ChatGPT to create assignments and tests, with commenters also using it to grade papers and create texts.
ChatGPT
Work & Operations
Automate payroll tax and garnishment cheque processing
A payroll team built an agent to process tax and garnishment cheques, building missing tools when it hit a system limitation.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Evaluate hiring candidates against competency levels
A commenter built a basic hiring agent loaded with competency definitions and levels for HR evaluation work.
GitHub Copilot
Work & Operations
Source and screen candidates and reply over WhatsApp
Recruiters run OpenClaw to monitor GitHub for new contributors overnight, score resume folders against a job description, and draft WhatsApp replies held for human approval.
OpenClaw
Work & Operations
Automate follow-ups and inventory tracking for a food distributor
Built agents for a wholesale food distributor that ran on Excel, calls and email, including inventory tracking and a copywriter agent for outreach emails.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Run warehouse paperwork, SOWs and billing automatically
A custom AI system for a warehousing client reads receipts, estimates and invoices, generates SOWs, runs billing and handles 28 background automations.
Other or custom
Work & Operations
Pick the cheapest capable model per task for CRM and email work
A user had their OpenClaw agent rewrite its own code to add a throttle module that picks the cheapest capable model for tasks like CRM analysis and drafting outbound emails.
OpenClaw
Work & Operations
Generate and send invoice PDFs for approval
An AI skill prepares an invoice PDF for work or reimbursements and emails it to the user, then sends it once he replies yes or with corrections.
Other or custom