# BotsDoThat

> There's a bot for that. Here's how. A live, sourced feed of real things people hand to AI agents (inbox and phone calls, shopping, travel, family, health, work, small business), with real popularity numbers, plain-English guides, copy-paste prompts, build-your-own-bot blueprints and tips to run your bots for less.

Data as of 2026-10-26. Popularity numbers are real counts (X likes/reposts, Reddit upvotes) with the date measured; unknown values are omitted.

## Start here
- [What is an AI agent? (in simple terms)](https://botsdothat.com/what-can-bots-do/): plain-English explainer, AI agent vs. chatbot, what agents can and can't do safely
- [How much does it cost to run an AI agent?](https://botsdothat.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-run-an-ai-agent/): Monthly estimates for 11 everyday bots at official API prices, with the math shown.
- [OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: a beginner's guide](https://botsdothat.com/openclaw-vs-hermes-agent/): What each open-source agent is, side-by-side comparison, how to pick, cost and safety tips.
- [Is it safe to give an AI agent your email and calendar?](https://botsdothat.com/is-it-safe-to-give-an-ai-agent-your-email/): Prompt injection, too much access, sending without review, and 8 rules that keep you in charge.
- [How to build an AI agent without coding](https://botsdothat.com/how-to-build-an-ai-agent-without-coding/): step-by-step beginner guide using a real blueprint as the worked example
- [AI agent examples for everyday life](https://botsdothat.com/ai-agent-examples/): every example on one page, grouped by part of life
- [Trending now](https://botsdothat.com/trending/)
- [Bot blueprints](https://botsdothat.com/blueprints/): build-your-own-bot recipes
- [Latest in AI](https://botsdothat.com/news/): new models, agent launches and AI price changes in plain words, with sources (RSS: https://botsdothat.com/news/feed.xml)
- [Run your bots for less](https://botsdothat.com/run-your-bots-for-less/): how to reduce AI API costs (model choice, free tiers, caching, batch, schedules, spend limits)
- [AI agent cost calculator](https://botsdothat.com/run-your-bots-for-less/#calculator): pick a bot or enter runs and message size, compare monthly cost across 18 models from official prices checked 2026-10-21; prefill with ?bot=<blueprint-slug>
- [AI price table](https://botsdothat.com/ai-pricing/): official API and plan prices for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Groq, Mistral, Meta and DeepSeek, checked 2026-10-21
- [RSS feed of new use cases](https://botsdothat.com/feed.xml)

## Use cases by category

### Inbox, calls & paperwork
- [Let your bot sign in to your accounts without seeing your passwords](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/let-your-bot-sign-in-without-seeing-your-passwords/): Agents get stuck at login pages, and pasting your password into a chat is risky. With 1Password for Agents, your bot asks to use a saved login, you approve it on your phone, and 1Password types it in, so the bot never sees the password.
- [Let a bot answer your phone and take messages for you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/let-a-bot-answer-and-screen-your-calls/): Forward your calls to an agent with its own phone number. It picks up, says it's your AI assistant, talks to the caller, takes a message and sends you a short summary. People who use it say many spam callers simply hang up.
- [Send a long video or thread to your bot with one reply](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/send-a-long-video-or-thread-to-your-bot/): See a long video or X thread you don't have time for? Reply to it by tagging your bot, and a short summary waits for you in your bot's app later.
- [Send all your newsletters to your bot and get one daily report](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/newsletter-daily-report/): Subscribe your newsletters to your bot's own email address. It reads every issue and sends you one short report each day, with a score that tells you which ones are worth reading in full.
- [Have your bot make a customer-service phone call for you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/make-a-customer-service-call/): Some jobs still need a phone call, like cancelling a service or sorting out an account. With a phone-calling add-on, your bot can make the call, sit on hold and report back.
- [Hand your most-hated weekly chores to a personal agent](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/hand-your-most-hated-chores-to-a-personal-agent/): Personal agents like Meta Muse, Grok Bot and Gemini Spark work in the background on a schedule. Start with the chore you hate most.
- [Get a daily scam check on your inbox](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/email-scam-filter/): A read-only bot reads your new email each morning and gives each suspicious message a risk score and the red flags.
- [Have a bot sort your scanned paper mail and flag what needs you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/sort-scanned-paper-mail-with-alerts/): A virtual mailbox service scans your paper mail to email. The bot reads every letter, queues up the routine ones for your OK, and pulls you in only when something looks unusual.
- [Give your agent its own email address](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/give-your-agent-its-own-email-address/): Give your agent an inbox of its own. Then you or anyone else can forward it jobs, like a meeting request it turns into a calendar invite with prep notes.
- [Get a Monday recap of your inbox and a to-do list](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/monday-inbox-recap-and-todo/): Every Monday a bot reviews last week's email, recaps what matters and suggests a ranked to-do list.
- [Only see the emails that actually need a reply](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/flag-only-emails-that-need-a-reply/): A simple triage bot flags anything needing a reply within 24 hours and moves the noise out of the way.
- [Get a short morning digest on topics you care about](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/morning-news-digest/): A bot reads the news on your topics every morning and sends you a short plain-English digest, or even an audio version.
- [Watch your email for one important letter or reply](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/watch-for-one-important-letter/): Waiting on a visa decision, a parcel or a reply from the landlord? Have a bot watch for it and ping you.
- [Understand a confusing letter or notice, and what to do next](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/understand-a-confusing-letter/): A letter from a government office, insurer, bank or landlord landed in your mailbox and you can't tell if it's important, a bill, a scam, or nothing.
- [Write a complaint that actually gets a problem fixed](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/write-a-complaint-that-gets-fixed/): A company messed up (late delivery, broken product, wrong charge, bad repair) and customer service keeps going in circles.
- [Get through a long form without the headache](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/fill-out-a-long-form/): A long application or government form is confusing, and you're not sure what each question is really asking.
- [Review a rental lease before you sign](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/review-a-lease-before-signing/): The lease is long, the landlord wants it signed this week, and you're worried about what's buried in it.
- [Make a moving checklist and change your address everywhere](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/moving-checklist-and-change-of-address/): Moving means telling dozens of companies and offices your new address, and something always gets missed.
- [Get your email inbox under control](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/clean-up-your-email-inbox/): Thousands of unread emails, and the important ones get buried under newsletters and promos.

### Run your bots for less
- [Set spend limits and usage alerts on your AI accounts](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/set-ai-spend-limits-and-alerts/): Before a bot runs on autopilot, put a hard cap on what it can spend and check usage weekly, so a runaway loop can't run up a big bill.
- [Keep your bot's prompts, tools and context short](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/keep-prompts-and-context-short/): You pay for everything the model reads on every run: your instructions, tool definitions, pasted pages and the conversation so far. Trimming those is often the easiest saving.
- [Stop always-on bots burning tokens: run them less often](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/schedule-bots-without-burning-tokens/): Every scheduled run costs tokens, even when nothing has changed. Match the schedule to how often the thing really changes, and switch fun-but-idle bots to run only when you ask.
- [Run open AI models on your own computer for simple jobs](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/run-open-models-on-your-own-computer/): Open-weight models can run on your own computer with a free tool like Ollama, so routine jobs cost nothing per message. Some hosts also run open models for a fraction of big-model prices.
- [Cut your AI bill with prompt caching and batch discounts](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/cut-costs-with-caching-and-batch/): If your bot sends the same long instructions every time, caching makes the repeat part much cheaper. If results can wait a few hours, batch processing halves the price at several providers.
- [Decide between a monthly AI plan and paying per use](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/subscription-or-pay-per-use/): A monthly plan (like Claude Pro) gives you a flat price with usage limits. Paying per use through an API costs exactly what you use. Which is cheaper depends on how much your bots run.
- [Build and test your bot on a free tier before you pay](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/test-your-bot-on-a-free-tier/): Several AI providers let you try their API or app for free. Use that to prove your bot works before you put a card on file, and know what you give up on the free tier.
- [Use a small AI model for simple jobs, a big one for hard ones](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/pick-a-smaller-model-for-simple-jobs/): Most bot jobs (sorting email, summarizing, checking a page) don't need the most powerful model. The small models cost a fraction as much, so route easy work to them and only send hard problems up.

### Shopping & groceries
- [Have an agent research a used car from its listing link](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/research-a-used-car-from-a-listing/): Drop in a used-car listing link and let an agent dig in: what the model is known for, the car's damage history and the questions to ask before you call the seller.
- [Plan a week of family meals and fill the grocery cart](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/family-meal-plan-and-grocery-order/): A bot keeps your recipe list, writes the week's meal plan and turns it into a shopping list that fills your grocery cart.
- [Let an agent reorder your regular groceries](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/reorder-your-regular-groceries/): Some people now let an agent handle their weekly grocery order and switch stores when a better offer appears.
- [Have a bot watch any web page and ping you when it changes](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/watch-a-web-page-for-changes/): Instead of refreshing a page, tell a bot what matters on it. It checks on a schedule and pings you only when that changes.
- [Keep a household essentials list and reorder on time](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/household-restock-list/): A bot keeps a running list of essentials, asks once a week what's low and builds the reorder.
- [Give your agent a single-use card before it buys anything](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/pay-with-a-single-use-virtual-card/): When an agent books or buys for you, give it a one-time virtual card so it can't be charged again.

### Bookings & travel
- [Get roadside help abroad when nobody speaks your language](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/get-roadside-help-abroad/): Broken down in another country and the insurer's phone line is in a language you don't speak? An agent can find the right help form, fill it in with your details and get help moving.
- [Give your bot a phone number so it can call and book for you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/call-and-book-by-phone/): Plenty of places still only take bookings by phone. Once your bot has its own number, it can call a restaurant, a vet or a salon, book the slot and tell you what was said.
- [Plan and book a whole trip by texting your bot](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/plan-and-book-a-whole-trip-by-text/): One parent says his bot booked the flight, the rental car, the vacation rental, a restaurant and event tickets, all over text.
- [Get rebooked fast when your flight is delayed](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/rebook-a-delayed-flight/): When a flight slips, an agent can find the fastest alternative that still gets you there on time and book it for you.
- [Get alerted the moment your airline changes your flight](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/catch-airline-schedule-changes/): Airlines quietly move flight times. An agent watching your inbox spots the change, tells you what moved, and lays out your options.
- [Book restaurant tables by message, even at phone-only places](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/restaurant-reservations-by-agent/): Restaurant bookings are the gateway task for many agent users, including small places that only take WhatsApp or calls.
- [Book a haircut or appointment, even when the form won't work](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/book-a-haircut-by-email/): When the online booking needs a local phone number, an agent can just email the business instead.
- [Have an AI agent find and book an appointment for you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/book-an-appointment-with-an-ai-agent/): You need a DMV slot, a restaurant table or a service appointment, and you don't have time to click through booking sites or keep checking for openings.
- [Plan a trip itinerary that fits your pace](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/plan-a-trip-itinerary/): Planning a trip means 30 open tabs, and you still aren't sure the days fit together.

### Family & home
- [Have a bot watch your kids' team apps and tell you only when plans change](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/watch-your-kids-team-apps-for-schedule-changes/): Every team seems to have its own app, like TeamSnap, GameChanger or LeagueApps. A bot can check them all each morning, put practices and games in one place, and stay quiet unless a time changes, a game is added or something is cancelled.
- [Add calendar events and reminders just by asking your bot](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/add-events-and-reminders-by-asking-your-bot/): Instead of opening your calendar and typing everything in, you tell your phone's AI assistant "add this" or "remind me", and it puts the event or reminder in the right app. Grok Bot and Gemini can both do this now, once you allow them into those apps.
- [Have an agent line up contractor quotes for a home project](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/line-up-contractors-for-a-home-project/): Instead of calling round electricians, plumbers and roofers yourself, let an agent reach out to all of them, collect their replies and put them side by side.
- [Get your phone number off people-search sites to cut spam calls](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/remove-your-number-from-people-search-sites/): A bot finds where your phone number is listed on people-search and data-broker sites, files the opt-out requests, and checks again later.
- [Catch family calendar clashes before the week starts](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/sunday-family-calendar-check/): Every Sunday a bot reads the next two weeks of your family calendar and school notices and flags the clashes.
- [Run family logistics from the family group chat](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/run-family-logistics-from-the-group-chat/): New “family agents” sit in your family chat and handle the small jobs: restocking, booking the dentist and reminders.
- [Turn the flood of school emails into one weekly digest](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/school-email-digest/): Label school emails and let an agent read them weekly. It pulls out deadlines, forms, payments and events, without duplicates.
- [Get 5 weekend activity ideas that fit your kids and the weather](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/weekend-family-activities/): Every Friday, get activity ideas matched to your kids' ages, the weather and your budget, with a rainy-day backup.
- [Make a weekly meal plan and grocery list](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/weekly-meal-plan-and-grocery-list/): Deciding what's for dinner every night is exhausting, and you keep buying food that goes to waste.
- [Use AI for homework help that teaches instead of cheats](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/homework-help-that-teaches/): Your kid is stuck on homework, you don't remember how to do it, and you don't want the AI to just hand over answers.
- [Control your smart home by talking to a private AI](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/control-your-smart-home-with-a-private-ai/): Connect Home Assistant to an AI model running on your own computer, then ask in plain words: “turn off everything downstairs” or “is the garage door open?”. Your voice and home data stay at home.
- [Show AI your screen or camera and get live tech help](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/show-ai-your-screen-for-tech-help/): Stuck on a phone setting, a confusing app or a blinking router? Share your screen or point your camera with Gemini Live and talk it through, like having a patient helper next to you.
- [Practice speaking a new language out loud with AI](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/practice-speaking-a-new-language/): Use an AI voice mode as a patient conversation partner. Pick a situation, like ordering food or checking into a hotel, and talk. It corrects you gently and adapts to your level.
- [Read old handwritten letters and family records with AI](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/read-old-handwritten-letters-and-records/): Grandma's letters, an old diary or a census page in hard-to-read cursive? Upload a photo and ask AI for a transcription, then check it line by line.

### Health & care
- [Get pinged when a prescription is ready, and told when to leave](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/prescription-ready-and-time-to-leave/): A personal agent can sweep your email every morning for "ready for pickup" notices, and check live traffic before your appointments to tell you when to head out.
- [Log your meals by talking and get a daily weight check-in](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/log-meals-and-weight-by-voice/): Tell your bot what you ate, out loud, and it keeps the food log for you. It can also check in on your weight each morning.
- [Set up medication and appointment reminders for a parent](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/medication-reminders-for-a-parent/): Family agents can remind an older parent about medication and book routine appointments, with the family kept in the loop.
- [Appeal a health insurance denial with AI](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/appeal-a-health-insurance-denial/): Your health insurance said no to a treatment, test or medicine, and the letter is full of codes and jargon.
- [Prepare for a doctor's appointment](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/prepare-for-a-doctor-visit/): Appointments are short, and you forget half your questions or can't explain your symptoms clearly.
- [Organize an aging parent's care and paperwork](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/organize-a-parents-care-paperwork/): You're helping a parent with doctors, insurance, medicines and bills, and the details live in a dozen places.

### Work & career
- [Compare two versions of a document or contract](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/compare-two-documents/): Someone sent back an edited lease, contract or policy and you need to know what actually changed. AI can list the differences in plain words, while Word's built-in Compare double-checks it didn't miss any.
- [Get a bot that suggests your next moves twice a day](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/proactive-next-moves-bot/): Instead of waiting for you to ask, this bot looks through your email, calendar and notes twice a day and comes back with two or three things worth doing next, each with a draft already written. You say yes, edit, or skip.
- [Have two AIs check each other's answers](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/have-two-ais-check-each-other/): Before you trust an important answer, have your bot ask a second AI the same question, compare the two, and check the real sources itself. Each AI catches mistakes the other missed.
- [Build a second brain your bot reads every morning](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/build-a-second-brain-your-bot-reads/): Keep your notes, plans and to-dos in plain files you own, plus one short "about me" file. Your bot reads them at the start of every chat, so it remembers who you are and picks up where you left off.
- [Fill out a job application faster with an agent](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/fill-out-a-job-application-faster/): Online job applications ask for the same details over and over. A browser agent can type them in from your resume and a short fact sheet, while you sign in yourself and press Submit yourself.
- [Give your agents a shared Apple account for notes and reminders](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/give-your-agents-a-shared-apple-account/): A Mac signed in to a separate Apple Account can become the shared desk where your agents leave each other reminders, notes, calendar events and messages, while your personal account stays private.
- [Hand off tasks to your agent by voice while you drive](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/hand-off-tasks-by-voice-while-driving/): Long drive? Talk to your agent on a voice call and hand off research, follow-ups and to-dos, then find them done when you arrive.
- [Hand a clunky web form to an agent that uses the computer](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/hand-a-clunky-web-form-to-an-agent/): Some software you only touch once a year. A computer-use agent can click through it for you, from a login you control, while you watch.
- [Write a letter of recommendation for someone](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/write-a-letter-of-recommendation/): Someone asked you for a reference letter and you want it to sound specific and honest, not generic. AI can turn your notes and their resume into a solid first draft.
- [Write a resignation letter that keeps the door open](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/write-a-resignation-letter/): You're leaving a job and want to say so clearly and kindly, without oversharing. AI can draft a short, professional resignation letter or email for you to edit.
- [Set up a “chief of staff” bot that plans your other bots](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/hire-a-chief-of-staff-bot/): Instead of building lots of bots, start with one that asks what you do and suggests which helpers you need.
- [Catch offers and deadlines the moment they land in your inbox](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/time-sensitive-inbox-watcher/): For fast-moving work (real estate, sales, hiring), a bot in your inbox and calendar texts you when something time-sensitive arrives.
- [Find the conversations you forgot to follow up on](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/find-dead-conversations-to-follow-up/): A weekly automation reads your calendar, inbox and tasks and lists people still waiting to hear back, with drafted nudges.
- [Get a daily digest of jobs that actually fit you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/job-match-digest/): A scheduled workflow pulls new listings, scores them against your CV and emails you the best matches with draft notes. You still apply.
- [Teach a bot to write emails that sound like you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/email-ghostwriter-style-guide/): Have the bot read your last 50 sent emails, write a style guide, then use it for every draft.
- [Tailor your resume and cover letter to a job](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/tailor-your-resume-to-a-job/): Every job wants a slightly different resume, and rewriting yours each time takes forever.
- [Get a researched report with sources on any question](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/get-a-researched-report-with-sources/): Ask one big question and let a research agent spend several minutes searching, reading and comparing pages. You get back a written report with links to every source.
- [Turn a pile of documents into a podcast you can listen to](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/turn-documents-into-a-podcast/): Upload PDFs, notes or links to Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) and it makes an audio overview: two AI hosts talking through your material, ready to play on a walk or in the car.
- [Get meeting notes and action items written for you](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/get-meeting-notes-and-action-items/): Turn on an AI note taker in your video call, or run an open-source one on your laptop. After the call you get a summary, decisions and a list of who does what.
- [Rehearse a job interview out loud with an AI interviewer](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/practice-a-job-interview-out-loud/): Paste the job posting, let a voice AI play the interviewer, and answer out loud. Afterwards it tells you which answers were strong and which need a better example.
- [Build a small app for yourself just by describing it](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/build-a-small-app-by-describing-it/): Describe a little tool you wish existed, like a chore chart, a tip splitter or a packing checklist, and Claude builds a working version beside the chat. Ask for changes in plain words.
- [Let an AI sort and rename a messy folder of files](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/sort-and-rename-a-messy-folder/): Point a desktop agent at your Downloads folder or a drive full of oddly named files. It proposes a folder structure and clear names, then moves things only after you approve.
- [Turn rambling voice memos into tidy notes and a to-do list](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/turn-voice-memos-into-notes-and-tasks/): Talk into your phone while walking or driving, then let AI turn the transcript into organized notes, a to-do list and any drafts you mentioned.

### Small business & side hustles
- [Let your bot handle your website's contact email](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/let-your-bot-handle-your-sites-contact-email/): Forward the contact address of your website, club or class to your bot's own email. It reads each message, sums it up for you, and only answers when you say so.
- [Put a small team of agents on one project, each with its own job](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/team-of-agents-with-roles/): Instead of one chatbot doing everything, give separate agents separate roles (one researches, one builds) and let them hand work to each other in a shared conversation you can watch.
- [Match every business expense to its receipt, weekly](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/small-business-receipt-matching/): A read-only bot checks your card and payment activity against the receipts in a dedicated inbox and lists what's missing.
- [Run several brands or jobs with one bot each](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/one-bot-per-brand/): If you juggle several brands or clients, give each its own bot with its own tools, plus a coordinator that collects a daily note.
- [Build a list of local leads and approve every email](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/build-a-lead-list-with-approval/): A workflow finds businesses in your niche and area, researches each one and drafts a personal email. Nothing goes out until you approve it.
- [Log every new client inquiry automatically](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/log-new-client-inquiries/): When an inquiry email arrives, the bot pulls out the client's name and requested date, logs it in your tracker and sets up a folder.
- [Sell on Marketplace with an agent, with safety rules set first](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/sell-on-marketplace-with-rules/): Agents can answer buyers and schedule pickups, but set rules first. One story tells of an agent sharing an address and booking a pickup when the seller was out.
- [Get your ads and sales numbers every morning without logging in](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/daily-ads-and-sales-report/): A bot logs into your ad and sales dashboards (read-only) and sends a morning summary with what changed.
- [Write listings that sell your stuff faster](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/sell-your-stuff-online/): You have things to sell, but writing listings, pricing them and answering buyers is a chore.
- [Test a side hustle idea before you commit](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/test-a-side-hustle-idea/): You have an idea to earn extra money, but you don't know if anyone will pay, and ads promise 'easy AI income'.
- [Reply to customer reviews (even the angry ones)](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/reply-to-customer-reviews/): Reviews pile up on Google and you don't have time to answer, or a harsh review has you stuck on what to say.
- [Chase an unpaid invoice without burning the relationship](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/chase-an-unpaid-invoice/): A client is late paying and you're not sure how firm to be.
- [Turn a pile of PDF invoices and receipts into a spreadsheet](https://botsdothat.com/use-cases/turn-pdf-invoices-into-a-spreadsheet/): Drop in a stack of invoices or receipts and get one tidy table: date, vendor, amount and tax for each, ready for your bookkeeper or a spreadsheet.

## Latest in AI (newest first)
- 2026-10-26 [feature] Gemini API now saves requests by default for new paid projects: If you set up a new paid Gemini API project, the prompts your bot sends are now stored by default, matching Google's Interactions API; existing projects don't change. If you'd rather they weren't kept, send store=false or turn off Generate Content API logging under Logs and Datasets. Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
- 2026-10-23 [model release] Kimi K3.1 Pro: a new open model that says it nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 at coding: Moonshot's new Kimi K3.1 Pro is out now in the Kimi apps and API, and its full weights are due by Nov 4, so anyone will be able to download and run it. Its API price is $2 in / $10 out per million tokens, half of Claude Opus 5.5's list price; the coding scores are Moonshot's own and haven't been checked independently yet. Source: https://thenextweb.com/news/moonshot-kimi-k3-1-pro-open-weight-cyber
- 2026-10-23 [feature] Cursor's coding bot can now click and type in other apps on your computer: After you update the Cursor app, its agent can drive desktop apps such as the iPhone simulator to test the features it just built, instead of you tapping through them yourself. Because it works by looking at your screen, close private windows before you let it take over. Source: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2113661506634305834
- 2026-10-23 [model release] NVIDIA releases a free 4GB AI model for assistants that run on your own device: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B is a small, free open model built for fast local voice and device assistants that can follow instructions and use tools, so a simple bot can run on your own computer with no per-message bill. It's text-only with a 64K-token memory, so save bigger jobs for the large cloud models. Source: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-4GB
- 2026-10-23 [model release] Block shows Dessa, a voice AI that talks with human-like pauses and emotion: Dessa is a speech model from the company behind Square and Cash App that listens and talks at the same time, so conversations with it sound strikingly like a real person. There's no public access yet, only early access for safety researchers, but it's a reminder that a lifelike voice on the phone may not be a person. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/blocks-new-voice-model-sounds-eerily-human/
- 2026-10-23 [industry] OpenAI cuts its newest models off the live internet while they're being trained: OpenAI says its frontier models now train in an offline copy of the web instead of the real internet, a safety step so a model in training can't reach outside systems. Nothing changes in ChatGPT for you, but it shows labs are treating stronger models as something to keep fenced in. Source: https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/
- 2026-10-23 [feature] OpenAI's Agents API can now run bots on a schedule: Developers can now tell an OpenAI agent to run on a repeating schedule, like every morning at 10, or once at a set time, and the agent can even set up its own schedules when you ask in plain words. Expect more apps that do a recurring job for you, such as a daily digest, without you opening them. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/sessions/automations
- 2026-10-23 [industry] OpenAI switched off older models including GPT-4, GPT-3.5 Turbo, o4-mini and gpt-image-1: If an older app or bot of yours suddenly stopped working on Oct 23, this may be why: OpenAI retired a batch of older models announced back in April. Switching it to a current model such as GPT-5.6 usually fixes it. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- 2026-10-22 [industry] Anthropic hands Agent Skills to a neutral foundation: Skills are little instruction folders that teach an AI agent a specific task, and more than 70 tools, including ChatGPT, Cursor and GitHub Copilot, already read them. Moving the standard to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation makes it more likely a skill you set up once keeps working across different bots. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation
- 2026-10-22 [feature] OpenAI's quick-answer Decisions API is now open to all developers: The Decisions API turns text or images into short typed answers, like sorting an email or approving a request, without writing a full reply, and it now handles up to 400 questions per request with prompt-cache discounts. Apps built on it can make these small calls faster and cheaper, which adds up for bots that triage a lot. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog
- 2026-10-22 [model release] Canva launches Craft, its own image model built for designs with readable text: Craft plans the layout first, then makes images up to 2K in about 30 sizes, and is trained on human-made Canva templates so text comes out legible. It's available to all Canva users in the Dream Lab tab, and Canva plans to let ChatGPT and Gemini use it too. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generation-model/
- 2026-10-22 [feature] Claude will stop asking permission for every step, starting next week: Starting next week, Claude's web, desktop and mobile apps on Pro, Max and Team plans begin sessions in auto mode, where an automated check lets safe actions go ahead and blocks risky ones instead of asking you to approve each step. Longer tasks finish with fewer interruptions, and you can switch any session back to manual approvals. Source: https://claude.com/resources/articles/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code
- 2026-10-22 [feature] Grok Bot can now use your phone's Calendar, Reminders and Contacts: With your permission, Grok Bot on iOS and Android can add calendar events, set and check reminders, look up contacts and reach apps like Messages and Home, and you allow each app separately. That makes "add this to my calendar" or "remind me tonight" something you can just ask your bot to do; it's rolling out now. Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/grok-bot-can-now-manage-your-calendar-reminders-and-more/
- 2026-10-22 [feature] Grok Bot can sign in to your accounts with 1Password, without seeing your passwords: You approve which saved logins your bot may use, and 1Password fills them in, one-time codes included, so the bot never sees the password. 1Password says the same approach is rolling out for Meta's Muse and coming soon to Claude Duet and ChatGPT Work, at no extra cost on its Individual and Family plans. Source: https://1password.com/partners/spacexsi-grokbot
- 2026-10-22 [feature] Gemini can now plan your day from your Google Maps saved places and calendar: If you turn on Personal Intelligence, Gemini can check your Maps searches and saved places alongside your Calendar, so "which restaurant on my list is near my last meeting?" gets a real answer. Google is also telling AI Ultra subscribers that Gemini 4 Argon will soon replace the Deep Think mode. Source: https://9to5google.com/2026/10/22/gemini-personal-intelligence-maps/

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