Work & Operations
Run shopping, trip planning and project tracking with a dot
A reviewer's dot flagged a failed payment unprompted but only read and reported it; a shopping site blocked it and follow-through was unfinished.
Dots · ChatGPT Agent
Work & Operations
Planning, inboxes, documents, and the back office that runs a business.
211 use cases
Work & Operations
Run ten business tasks through an always-on agent
A reviewer tested Dots on product research, publishing a webpage, content planning and scheduled jobs; inbox triage and follow-ups needed supervision and a spreadsheet had broken formulas.
Dots · ChatGPT Agent
Work & Operations
Summarize emails and draft replies with Gemini Gem flows
The writer plugged a custom Gemini Gem into Workspace Studio flows that run in the background, summarize Gmail messages and create draft replies to review and send.
Gemini
Work & Operations
Build an expense and inventory tracking app
A user had Manus create an app to track their business expenses and inventory, and says it works as envisioned.
Manus
Work & Operations
Turn lead CSVs and sales data into dashboards
Manus turned a large lead CSV into a dashboard in about 20 minutes and charted coffee shop sales data with Python, though it sometimes looped and drained credits.
Manus
Work & Operations
Draft and send an email through Gmail
Comet wrote an SEO email and sent it to the author without asking for review; it arrived with markdown formatting problems.
Perplexity Comet
Work & Operations
Summarize transcripts and build documents with Codex
A guide shows Codex summarizing transcripts into a Word doc, building an Excel revenue model and making carousel images from a document.
Codex
Work & Operations
Build a newsletter performance dashboard without coding
A non-coding media operator had Claude Code build a dashboard tracking newsletter performance across a network in about 30 minutes; a solo CFO built an expense system.
Claude Code
Work & Operations
Extract vendor PDFs and create QuickBooks invoices
A custom integration built with Claude Code extracts data from vendor PDFs and creates categorized invoices in QuickBooks Online.
Claude Code
Work & Operations
Hand a day of busywork to Cowork
The author gave Cowork a day of busywork, including pulling numbers from three sources into a report that needed light editing and a scheduled weekly metrics report; screen-driving was slower and needed nudges.
Claude Cowork
Work & Operations
Automate web-form entry and Gmail cleanup
The author tested Claude for Chrome on repetitive forms, where it started entering wrong data and slowed down, and on archiving newsletters and starring urgent Gmail messages, which saved a few minutes.
Claude in Chrome
Work & Operations
Check hotel reservations and guest check-ins on Booking.com
A small-hotel owner in Riga runs scheduled Cowork tasks that use Claude in Chrome to check reservations and verify check-ins in the Booking.com admin panel.
Claude Cowork · Claude in Chrome
Work & Operations
Extract purchasing-card receipt data into a report cover sheet
A Duke staff member tested Cowork on a receipt PDF; it crashed partway, though it handled a folder of PDFs and wrote results to an outputs folder.
Claude Cowork
Work & Operations
Turn trip receipts into an expense report and triage files
The author used Cowork to build an expense report from 47 receipts, pick what to read from 4,992 files and make slide decks via Gamma.
Claude Cowork
Work & Operations
Automate recurring work with scheduled Cowork tasks
The author tested six scheduled tasks: email briefings, file cleanup, Stripe reporting, invoice reconciliation, notes tidying and flight price tracking.
Claude Cowork
Work & Operations
Delegate calendar, inbox and travel booking to a personal work agent
Authors use Cowork or Claude Code to schedule invites, triage email, book flights and hotels, pull Airtable data and scrape exhibitor lists.
Claude Cowork · Claude Code
Work & Operations
Run a daily chief-of-staff agent across inbox, calendar and CRM
A surgeon runs about twenty scheduled Cowork tasks that triage email, prep meetings, flag stale deals and leave drafts ready in a dashboard.
Claude Cowork
Work & Operations
Reconcile bank statements with invoices
Cowork cleaned vendor names, categorized expenses, matched invoices to transactions, flagged missing ones, built an Excel file and renamed invoice files.
Claude Cowork