Use cases
What AI agents are doing at work today: 77 real, sourced cases, each with a prompt to try.
Marketing & content
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Edit a short promo video in Descript from narration and style references
A newsletter writer gave his dot a recorded narration in Descript plus two Instagram videos as style references. It found official footage, laid out B-roll and captions, trimmed the overlong cut, and after a few review rounds he published the finished short.
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Find proven post ideas and draft X posts for three accounts
A startup founder and his brother used Grok Bot as the research and angle agent behind three X accounts, with a human approving every post. He says the accounts built a large audience over a few months.
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Produce daily TikTok slideshows to promote your apps
An indie app developer ran an OpenClaw agent on an old gaming PC to research hooks, generate six-slide TikTok carousels and upload them as drafts. He says the posts drew a large audience and some paying subscribers.
Sales & leads
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Turn years of calendar meetings into a tagged contact database
A founder asked Grok Bot to go through ten years of calendar meetings and log every person met into a Notion database with their LinkedIn profile, current role and tags. It worked for hours without stopping.
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Run account management with daily briefs and promise reminders
A post-sales account manager at SpaceXSI describes a team of Grok Bots, led by a chief-of-staff bot, that preps calls, tracks promises, scans for usage risk and builds a weekly account health view.
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Run a daily SDR routine that flags risky contacts before outreach
An SDR at SpaceXSI describes a set of Grok Bots, working alongside Cursor agents, that run his morning prospecting, keep the contact sheet and CRM sequences in order, and sort every contact into safe or needs review before anything goes out.
Research & analysis
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Scan weekly for design partners and competitor moves
A founder-advisor in xAI's startup program describes a set of Grok Bots for founder-led sales, including a Monday scan for companies that fit the ideal customer profile and a research bot that reports what changed at competitors.
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Answer product questions from calls, tickets and usage data at once
A SpaceXSI team member writing for product managers describes using Grok Bot agents to answer customer and product questions by pulling together call transcripts, support tickets, Slack customer channels and usage data, then turning discussions into prioritised specs.
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Get a weekly rundown of what your key accounts said in public
A go-to-market lead at SpaceXSI describes running Grok Bot to scan, every week, the webinars, podcasts, talks and X posts featuring contacts at her strategic accounts, and send one roundup of what is new.
Inbox & calendar
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Sweep several inboxes every hour and alert only on what matters
The founder of ChatPRD runs a Grok Bot chief of staff that sweeps six email inboxes, several Slack workspaces and calendars every hour, archives low priority items and sends only high signal alerts plus a morning briefing.
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Add calendar events and lunar date birthdays by chat
A Chinese marketing consultant tested OpenClaw on his own machine and had it add a calendar event from one chat message and set a yearly lunar calendar birthday reminder for his wife.
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Check a year of proposed board dates against your calendar
A Thai board director and newspaper columnist had Grok Bot find a company secretary's email asking for next year's board meeting availability, check every proposed slot against his calendar and draft the reply.
Leadership & reporting
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Run a weekly review from meeting transcripts and brief before meetings
A founder building an open-source product listed what his OpenClaw agent does for him, including leading a weekly review from meeting transcripts and notes, a morning brief, and research docs on people before meetings.
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Write a manager weekly report from commits, calendar and metrics
A developer in China described an OpenClaw pipeline with a local model that collects Git commits, calendar events and project metrics and writes a structured weekly report in a manager view.
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Give each board seat its own digital secretary
A Thai director who sits on several company and university boards runs separate Grok Bot agents for each organization, plus a morning brief that sorts his inbox and decisions before he wakes.
Operations & admin
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Check vehicle certificates against shipping documents from photos
A quality inspection engineer at Changan Automobile hands vehicle document checks to Alibaba QwenWork. According to a Caijing report republished by 36Kr, the check per vehicle became much faster.
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Run a one-person online shop's admin, stock and marketing
A solo online accessories seller deployed OpenClaw inside Feishu as an e-commerce assistant with skills for bookkeeping, stock checks, Xiaohongshu copy and competitor research. After a few weeks, the seller says running the shop day to day mostly means giving the agent instructions.
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Run video annotation overnight so it is done by morning
In a feature rundown from Volcano Engine's Wuhan event, GeekPark reports that one company scheduled its video annotation work for the night: ArkClaw opened the annotation platform on its own before dawn, operated it through the browser the way a person would, and the finished work was ready the next morning. The company is not named and no volumes or time savings are given.
Money, tax & books
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Find a recurring charge you forgot and get it waived
A product newsletter writer asked Muse to scan a year of Gmail receipts for recurring charges. It found an idle cloud database he was still paying for and, after a first refusal, got the provider to waive the charges.
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Rebuild your entity history and file taxes after selling a business
A solo founder who sold most of his business used OpenClaw instead of his usual CPA. Over two days it reconstructed his entity history and cost basis from old returns, built a P&L from raw bank data and guided him field by field through tax software.
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Catch a forgotten invoice and send it after approval
In its dots launch post, OpenAI says an early tester's dot noticed he had forgotten to invoice a publication, prepared the invoice, and sent it only after he approved. OpenAI gives no further detail or figures.
Customer support
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Sort a shared support inbox into a simple ticket workflow
The team behind Linkedmash connected OpenClaw to its support inboxes, and it designed status folders and mail rules that move each ticket along as replies go out.
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Triage support tickets daily and verify facts before replying
Gumroad runs a Hermes Agent that handles parts of daily operations. On a schedule it triages support tickets, checks the facts in internal admin and analytics tools, and replies, closes or escalates each one.
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Scan new support tickets for help doc and blog post ideas
The founder of a podcast hosting company shared his Hermes Agent and knowledge base with his team, starting with support. Its first automated scan of new tickets suggested six help doc updates and two marketing posts.
Hiring & HR
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Flag missed clock-ins and set a follow-up check for the next morning
In a hands-on test at QwenWork's public beta launch, a reporter for Chinese tech outlet APPSO had the agent spot attendance problems from clock-in and leave records, draft a group reminder and create a DingTalk to-do to check correction approvals the next morning.
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Draft interview scorecards from the call transcript
xAI's recruiting team says a bot matches each interview transcript or recording to the role's scorecard and drafts the feedback form in the recruiter's voice. It then asks the recruiter a few follow-up questions, such as their rating and what to probe next, before redrafting and submitting it to the ATS.
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Source candidates overnight, then wait for approval to reach out
xAI's recruiting team describes a bot that learns from scorecards and resumes of past hired and rejected candidates, then sources new candidates overnight, adds them to the ATS as leads and drafts outreach sequences. A recruiter approves the send before the bot moves candidates to Reached Out and watches for replies.
Tools, sites & apps
All 1Personal errands
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Find subscriptions to cancel and bills worth renegotiating
The founder of ChatPRD runs a Grok Bot that reviews receipts and email for subscriptions to cancel, bills to negotiate and expiring trials; it found an unused gaming subscription and suggested shopping home insurance before renewal.
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Plan a multi-week family road trip with a private itinerary site
A father used an always on Hermes Agent to plan a multi-week family road trip to Florida around his daughter's dance competition, including a private itinerary website and a calendar of bookings.
Cases come from public posts, press tests and makers' own pages. Each one links to its source. None of them is our customer.
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