What people do really with their AI agents
100 real uses of Grok Bot, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, OpenAI Dots, Meta Muse and Instinct, spotted on X and the web. Each one links to its source.
In brief 100 real and original uses of the featured AI agents, filterable by agent and category, each with its source.
Results as claimed by their authors, not independently verified. Verbatim quotes (under 25 words). Uses not tested by AgentsIA. Availability in France and Morocco: see each agent profile.
New · Real cases in small businesses25 tasks a small business owner handed to an AI agentContract checks, remote ERP, mini IT department, WhatsApp, follow-ups… with safeguards and a checklist to get started →100 uses
Grok Bot · OffbeatMost original
A marriage proposal planned and turned into a video game
Grok Bot helps plan the proposal, then creates “Operation Liberty”: a JARVIS-style film about the preparations, narrated by the bot, and a playable pixel-art game about the fiancée’s first trip to Kuwait. All from the chat.
Reported result: “She said yes.”
For a small business: No, but shows how fast custom content (game, video) can be made for a client event.
Source: @S777CFB · 10 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · OffbeatMost original
“Messaging only” in-flight Wi-Fi: the bot codes itself a Telegram client
Noticing the plane’s Wi-Fi only let messaging apps through, the bot built itself a Telegram client to stay reachable.
Reported result: The agent stays reachable throughout the flight.
For a small business: No, but shows autonomy in the face of an unexpected constraint.
Source: @carlosnoriega · 10 Oct 2026
Meta Muse · OffbeatMost original
Grok Bot asks Muse to make a call (multi-agent)
Home-made tool linking his agents via Tailscale: Grok Bot, Instinct, Muse, Codex, Claude Code, Hermes and OpenClaw. Demo: Grok Bot asks Muse to make a phone call.
Reported result: Seven agents from different vendors linked together.
For a small business: Not for now (experimental).
Source: @mvanhorn · 24 Sep 2026
Meta Muse · OffbeatMost original
Muse lowballs 50 Marketplace sellers
Muse contacts around fifty sellers on Facebook Marketplace with low offers until it finds a good deal.
Reported result: A new MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB/2 TB found for $2,500; more than 1,400 likes.
For a small business: Partly: buying second-hand equipment, but mind your brand image.
Source: @jingusucks · 19 Sep 2026
OpenClaw · OffbeatMost original
Ordering groceries when the cleaner sends a message
On a simple message from the cleaner, the agent logs into the Albert Heijn supermarket site with credentials shared in 1Password, waits for the SMS login code (read through Beeper’s iMessage bridge and MCP) and fills the basket.
Reported result: Missing products get ordered without lifting a finger.
For a small business: Partly: automatic restocking at an employee’s request, but access to credentials and SMS must be tightly controlled.
Source: @dreetje · 20 Jan 2026
Meta Muse · OffbeatMost original
Muse drives a small robot using depth estimation
Muse writes a connector for a wheeled robot’s API, installs PyTorch and Depth Anything V2 in its virtual machine to estimate depth from a 2D camera, then drives the robot towards a black ball.
Reported result: The robot moves towards the ball and stops just short of it.
For a small business: No.
Source: @hrhraj · 18 Sep 2026
Instinct · OffbeatMost original
Instinct and Hermes discuss a Japan itinerary
Through “The Ringdown”, a pop-up chat room for agents, the author’s Instinct agent discusses a Japan trip itinerary with his Hermes agent.
Reported result: Two agents from two vendors talk to each other without copy-paste.
For a small business: Not for now.
Source: @trevin · 1 Sep 2026
Hermes Agent · CreativeMost original
An old laptop that writes an illustrated visual novel on its own
Hermes (“Iris”) installed on a spare laptop with two targets: RenPy and ComfyUI. It finds ComfyUI, generates images locally with LM Studio, asks for internet access to install RenPy, fixes its script errors and creates its own skills.
Reported result: In about ten minutes, a short complete visual novel with 10 images and transitions.
For a small business: No (creative), but shows it can learn unfamiliar software on its own.
Source: @ExileAI_0 · 20 Apr 2026
OpenClaw · DevelopmentMost original
Fixing a production deploy by voice while walking the dog
OpenClaw agent (“BigC”) installed on a Hetzner server: it reads the failed Railway build logs, finds the cause (wrong build commands), fixes each service’s config, redeploys, checks, then fixes a design flaw and opens a PR. All driven by voice.
Reported result: Deploy fixed and PR submitted without opening a computer.
For a small business: Partly: useful for small businesses with a site or app in production, but you need a server and tightly separated access.
Source: @georgedagg_ · 16 Jan 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEsMost original
A hair salon’s entire back office in an hour
Grok Bot installs Odoo, Swedish accounting, bookings and Swish payments in its own cloud sandbox, then runs the whole thing.
Reported result: A complete back office in about an hour.
For a small business: Yes: a Moroccan salon or shop could test Odoo the same way.
Source: @WetterBo · 10 Oct 2026
OpenClaw · OffbeatMost original
Two OpenClaw agents working together in a WhatsApp group
Two users put their respective agents in the same WhatsApp group; the agents talk and work together.
Reported result: Demo of agent-to-agent collaboration between two people.
For a small business: Partly: a lead for coordinating two partner companies, with major confidentiality issues.
Source: @danpeguine · 22 Jan 2026
OpenClaw · OffbeatMost original
A $35 holographic cube to give an agent a face
Bought a small $35 holographic display connected to OpenClaw to show the agent’s status.
Reported result: It became a sort of tamagotchi, says the author; the most-liked post in the OpenClaw showcase (over 900 likes).
For a small business: No, but a status display idea for a reception desk or open-plan office.
Source: @andrewjiang · 19 Jan 2026
Grok Bot · CreativeMost original
The film of his parents’ 1960 wedding
From digitised silent films and photos, the bot edits a 10-minute video narrated by the mother sharing her memories.
Reported result: A 10-minute family film.
For a small business: No (personal); an idea for telling a family business’s story.
Source: @RussianMeddler · 11 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · DevelopmentMost original
Simulated meetings to improve an app
The Dot spins up sub-agents that simulate meetings using a strategy app, spot where the design gets in the way, make changes and start again.
Reported result: “An almost self-improving loop.”
For a small business: Partly: simulated user testing for a digital product.
Source: @parkerlapeyre · 14 Oct 2026
Instinct · Personal lifeMost original
Flights for a wedding: a forgotten credit found, price cut in half
A single text: Instinct searches every New York airport, finds $1,073 of forgotten JetBlue credit, keeps the hotel already booked, books three seats together, notices the credit dropped off at checkout, cancels within 24 h and rebooks correctly.
Reported result: $982 paid instead of $2,056.
« I paid $982 instead of $2,056. I never touched a browser. »
For a small business: Yes: business travel and supplier credits.
Source: @srcasm · 16 August 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Hermes assistants for French small business owners
An integrator rolls out Hermes for small business owners in France: an engine-cleaning workshop whose agent reads Facebook Messenger leads every 15 min and asks what to reply, a coffee machine reseller who dictates his quotes into his CRM, a beauty distributor who made her Christmas PDF catalogue from photos.
Reported result: About 8,000 scheduled runs.
« Hermes reads the Facebook Messenger leads every 15 min, sums each one up and asks the owner what to reply »
For a small business: Yes, a textbook case for AgentsIA’s audience: French small businesses, leads, quotes, catalogue.
Source: @julientalbot974 · 5 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
13 bots run an adventure sports directory
A team of about 13 bots runs an online directory: homepage and site redesign, 81 new providers added, 11 duplicates merged, more than 100 descriptions cleaned up, booking cards on 52 pages, a design bot and quality control.
Reported result: Weekly Google impressions up from 2.6K to 12.7K in 3 weeks.
« Weekly Google search impressions 2.6K → 12.7K in 3 weeks »
For a small business: Yes, very close to the AgentsIA model (directory + SEO).
Source: @SeekingAdrnline · 10 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
A car parts counter on WhatsApp that never guesses a price
“SERA Auto Parts Desk” answers on WhatsApp following the export desk’s rules: ask for missing details (part number, VIN), only use the prices and shipping costs provided, pass unknowns to a human.
Reported result: Fast answers with no risk of a made-up price.
« use only pricing/freight I've provided, bring unknowns back to me. »
For a small business: Yes: a perfect model for a Moroccan shop that sells on WhatsApp.
Source: @JordanFan0206 · 16 Oct 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
A Swiss web agency automates invoice preparation
Hermes has access to Harvest and ClickUp and to a skill describing how they bill: it checks tasks and time spent, confirms the work was approved, and creates the draft invoice in Harvest with a summary for the client. A human sends it.
Reported result: Draft invoice preparation almost fully automated; support accounts for about 50% of revenue.
For a small business: Yes: very repeatable for agencies and service firms that bill by time spent.
Source: @corxntyn · 30 Jul 2026
Meta Muse · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Running a plumbing business with a single message at 6 a.m.
One message sent from bed at 6 a.m.: Muse updates the job board, texts the customer, briefs the office manager arriving at 8 a.m. on Slack and alerts the technician.
Reported result: The whole morning’s coordination done in one message.
« I still can’t believe I can run my plumbing company with an agent so easily. »
For a small business: Yes: tradespeople and home service businesses.
Source: @HouseHackerJon · 21 Sep 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Outbound prospecting with approval in Telegram
Every morning, Telegram shows a queue of accounts already researched and scored by Hermes; the user approves, the agent starts the sequence, tracks replies, updates HubSpot and stops as soon as a prospect replies. (Article-format X post; content quoted on Nous Research’s User Stories page.)
Reported result: Prospecting starts from a queue ready to approve instead of a blank list.
For a small business: Yes: the “agent prepares, human approves” pattern is ideal for a small business.
Source: @VibeMarketer_ · 13 August 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
The “chief of staff” of an IT company
A chief-of-staff bot coordinates a team: about 140 old receipts filed, 33 local leads found and added to the pipeline, network installation quotes, SEO fixes on the site, 3 demo sites built for prospects before calling them, unbilled work spotted.
Reported result: Unbilled work recovered and a fuller pipeline.
For a small business: Yes: every task listed is typical of a small service business.
Source: @CPUGenuis · 10 Oct 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
$18,000/year less in accounting fees for a real estate agent
A provider hosts a Hermes agent connected to a real estate agent’s Google Workspace and QuickBooks, which takes over repetitive bookkeeping and admin tasks.
Reported result: $18,000 less in accounting fees per year and no more need for an executive assistant (according to the provider).
For a small business: Yes: freelancers and small businesses; have your accountant sign off on it.
Source: @jaredclucas · 24 June 2026
OpenClaw · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Every morning: emails summarised, tasks created, sent to Slack
Gmail + Supabase skills and a scheduled task every morning: reads the first 10 emails, summarises them, creates to-dos for important messages, posts to Slack, stores in Supabase, plus a small macOS menu bar app.
Reported result: An inbox review turned into a to-do list effortlessly.
For a small business: Yes: one of the easiest cases for a small business to copy.
Source: @dhruvalgolakiya · 12 Jan 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
A chain of bots to price electrical jobs
The “sketch” bot produces DXF plans and checks with “sparky” on electrical codes, then “penny” counts fixtures and lights, measures cable runs, calculates labour hours using NECA rates, looks up material prices and sends an estimate.
Reported result: The in-house CAD designer was blown away by the plans.
For a small business: Yes: construction firms and electricians (adapt to local codes).
Source: @MattForsberg · 10 Oct 2026
Instinct · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Renovation quotes: find, compare and book the cheapest
Instinct finds several tradespeople, requests quotes, emails back and forth with them, then confirms and schedules the best-rated, cheapest option.
Reported result: Work booked at the best value for money.
For a small business: Yes: purchasing services (premises maintenance, repairs).
Source: @its_Holmes · 12 Sep 2026
Instinct · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Invoices pulled from emails and entered into the books
Instinct goes through the emails, gathers deductible invoices and enters them into the accounting software (post in Hebrew).
Reported result: At least two hours saved every two months.
For a small business: Yes: pre-accounting for a freelancer or small business.
Source: @menzib · 10 Sep 2026
OpenAI Dots · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
A round-the-clock “intern” that builds a journalist’s dashboard
The “TechDots” Dot checks rival outlets for scoops every hour, collects the industry’s press conferences at 8 a.m., extracts events from emails, compares flights and hotels, and builds a private dashboard site with a calendar colour-coded by source and A-to-C priorities.
Reported result: Dashboard updated hourly; limits: technical jargon and fact-checking still to do.
For a small business: Yes: competitive monitoring and an events calendar for a small business.
Source: Jang Hyung-im (Seoul Economic Daily) · 18 Oct 2026
OpenClaw · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
Fully automatic weekly SEO analysis
The agent produces a full SEO analysis of the site every week.
Reported result: SEO report delivered every week with no manual work.
For a small business: Yes: weekly SEO tracking for a brochure or e-commerce site.
Source: @xz3dev · 15 Jan 2026
Meta Muse · Business & SMEsTop for SMEs
A critical domain name saved from expiring
Muse notices that an important domain, moved to another GoDaddy account, won’t auto-renew, and alerts the team.
Reported result: Domain renewed in time.
For a small business: Yes: keeping an eye on renewals (domains, licences, insurance).
Source: @jasonlk · 2 Oct 2026
Instinct · Personal life
Instinct in group chats (founder’s announcement)
Added to a group, Instinct plans a weekend, buys tickets as soon as sales open and splits costs, runs a fantasy league, works out carpools, organises Thanksgiving. Uses announced by founder Noah Shinn, not user feedback.
Reported result: Feature open to early-access users.
For a small business: Partly: team coordination in a group.
Source: @noahrshinn · 5 Oct 2026
Hermes Agent · Development
A 24/7 agent on a Mac Mini for $21 a month
Two months of an always-on agent: 18 scheduled tasks, 35 scripts, 6 home-made skills and a structured context system; full guide shared.
Reported result: Total reported cost: $21/month; post with more than 2,300 likes.
For a small business: Yes: gives a realistic cost ballpark for a small business.
Source: @witcheer · 27 March 2026
Meta Muse · Offbeat
Giving your agent $100 and a prediction market account
Columnist Kevin Roose hands Muse $100 and a Kalshi account to test what it can do.
Reported result: Public experiment; result not given in this post.
For a small business: No.
Source: @kevinroose · 24 Sep 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
A 17-person startup: one Hermes per team
At Artie, each team (code, BizOps…) has its own Hermes profile with its own personality, on a single physical machine in Germany. The BizOps profile handles pipeline reviews, reconciliations and tracking updates.
Reported result: The whole team works with the agent; detailed write-up on costs.
For a small business: Yes: a “one agent profile per department” model suited to a 10–50 person business.
Source: @JacquelineSYC19 · 16 Sep 2026
OpenClaw · Personal life
A “personal OS”: calendar, weekly review and morning briefing
OpenClaw slots tasks into the calendar by an importance/urgency score, runs a weekly review from meeting transcripts and Notion notes, sends a morning brief (weather, goals, meetings, X/LinkedIn trends, RSS reading), prepares notes on people before each meeting and reminds the couple of their son’s school tests.
Reported result: A single chat interface replaces planning, monitoring and meeting prep.
For a small business: Yes: the morning brief and pre-meeting notes are easy for a small business owner to copy.
Source: @danpeguine · 17 Jan 2026
OpenClaw · Development
App QA: notes, report, then coding agents in parallel
The author tests his app and sends screenshots and notes; the agent builds a task list, writes a report, then on “Go” launches Codex agents that open separate PRs; Claude reviews the PRs; the agent writes up what needs retesting.
Reported result: Test → fix → retest cycle documented end to end.
For a small business: Partly: relevant for a small business that makes software.
Source: @nateliason · 23 Jan 2026
Instinct · Personal life
48 hours of testing, then account deleted out of caution
48-hour trial: comparing home insurance, booking a doctor’s appointment online, researching trips, managing LinkedIn notifications. The author then deletes his account.
Reported result: Convinced by the product, but not ready to give it full access to his life (post viewed nearly 300,000 times).
For a small business: Lesson: trust and permissions are the main hurdle in small businesses.
Source: @anothercohen · 22 August 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Submitting all therapist invoices to the insurer in 20 minutes
Muse searches the inbox for every therapist invoice and submits them to the insurer Aetna.
Reported result: Deductible reached and reimbursements on the way; 20 minutes.
For a small business: Yes: expense reports and reimbursements from emails.
Source: @natashaghoskins · 23 Sep 2026
Hermes Agent · Personal life
One agent for the whole family, in WhatsApp
A Hermes agent shared by 3 family members, each for their own needs, living in WhatsApp with proactive behaviour.
Reported result: According to the author, one subscription covers the whole family.
For a small business: Partly: same idea for a 3-person business on WhatsApp.
Source: @EXM7777 · 30 Apr 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
Three setups for making money with Hermes
1) A profile scans gigs in its niche every morning at 8 a.m. and prepares applications approved on Telegram; 2) scheduled article writing; 3) selling automations to local shops, with an isolated Hermes profile per client. Configured through a SOUL.md file.
Reported result: Concrete recipes shared (8 a.m. cron, mobile approval).
For a small business: Yes: the “one isolated profile per client” setup suits agencies and integrators.
Source: @IBuzovskyi · 30 May 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Daily summary of the school WhatsApp groups
Scheduled task: every day Muse reads the parents’ WhatsApp groups and the emails, sends a summary and forwards it to his wife. The same post describes other routines handed to OpenClaw and Instinct.
Reported result: No more reading dozens of messages a day.
For a small business: Yes: summarising customer or supplier WhatsApp groups.
Source: @fnthawar · 20 Sep 2026
OpenClaw · Business & SMEs
An “army” of 15+ agents for a tech executive
A fleet of OpenClaw agents run from Discord: inbox triage, a summary of 122 Google slides for a town hall, Google Ads audit and optimisation, LinkedIn/X posts in his voice, Jira/GA4/Search Console skills, a support bot trained on Zendesk tickets, a daily roll call of all agents.
Reported result: 10,000 emails cleared on day one; a support bot built from Zendesk tickets.
« Cleared 10,000 emails from my inbox (Day 1) »
For a small business: Partly: each building block (inbox triage, Ads audit, posts) can be copied on its own; the full fleet needs a technical profile.
Source: @jdrhyne · 18 Jan 2026
OpenClaw · Business & SMEs
Forwarding receipts by email to get a parts list
The agent has its own inbox; the author forwards receipts and it builds a parts list from them.
Reported result: An inventory built from simple email forwards.
For a small business: Yes: forward invoices and receipts to a dedicated address to feed an inventory or the books.
Source: @localghost · 24 Jan 2026
OpenClaw · Development
Rebuilding a whole website from Telegram, in bed
Via Telegram, the agent (then called Clawdbot) migrates a personal site from Notion to Astro, moves 18 articles and switches DNS to Cloudflare.
Reported result: Whole site rebuilt in one evening “without ever opening the computer”.
« never opened my laptop. »
For a small business: Partly: redoing a small brochure site is doable, as long as you review before the DNS switch.
Source: @davekiss · 7 Jan 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Watching for cancellations to see a fully booked doctor the same day
The user asks Muse to watch a doctor’s waiting list and book as soon as a cancellation opens up.
Reported result: Same-day appointment, when the next slot was in June.
For a small business: Yes: watching for slots (government offices, suppliers, trade shows).
Source: @danpeguine · 1 Oct 2026
OpenClaw · Personal life
Family meal system with shopping lists sorted by aisle
In one evening, the “Crawdad” agent creates a meal plan in Notion for all of 2026, shopping lists sorted by store and aisle, weather built into the plan (barbecue or soup) and morning/evening reminders.
Reported result: The author reckons he saves at least an hour a week.
For a small business: No (family use), but the “plan + lists + reminders” model transfers to a canteen or caterer.
Source: @stevecaldwell · 4 Jan 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
“benny”, the Dot that handles all the engineering work
All engineering work goes through the Dot, which splits tasks across threads and cloud environments and follows up on its own.
Reported result: While hunting one bug, it finds another and proposes a draft PR.
For a small business: Partly (dev).
Source: @rennsong · 30 Sep 2026
OpenClaw · Business & SMEs
A solo founder and his 4 agent co-founders
4 OpenClaw agents on a VPS, run from Telegram: a coordinator (strategy), a developer, a marketer (competitive monitoring, content ideas), a business lead (pricing, metrics). Shared memory for key documents, a different model per role, daily scheduled tasks (Reddit monitoring, reminders).
Reported result: “A real little team available 24/7”, according to the author.
For a small business: Yes: splitting by role (strategy, marketing, business) is a good model for a solo owner.
Source: @iamtrebuh · 14 Jan 2026
OpenClaw · Business & SMEs
Prospecting a SaaS’s new sign-ups every day
In the first 24 hours: Linear ticket triage, email follow-ups, 3 PRs, then a daily routine that prospects the day’s new sign-ups. Side note: a loop sent thousands of WhatsApp messages to one contact.
Reported result: Sign-up prospecting automated daily; a loop incident showing why safeguards matter.
For a small business: Yes, with a safeguard: cap the number of sends and approve every outgoing message.
Source: @avi_press · 8 Jan 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
A weekly report of hours saved
The bot adds up the time it spent on each task and sends a weekly report of hours saved.
Reported result: A concrete measure of time saved.
For a small business: Yes: useful for justifying an agent’s ROI in a small business.
Source: @BrooksConkle · 10 Oct 2026
Hermes Agent · Creative
A TikTok slideshow factory
Hermes researches the topic, writes the script, formats the slides for TikTok and runs on a schedule.
Reported result: The author compares 30 to 40 h/week doing 10 slideshows by hand with just the time to review them.
For a small business: Yes: a small business’s social media content (review before posting).
Source: @cyrilXBT · 13 May 2026
Instinct · Personal life
A flight for his son and a restaurant on the very first evening
On the very first evening: a flight booked for his son, plus a dinner.
Reported result: “The best consumer AI product since ChatGPT”, according to the author.
For a small business: Partly.
Source: @Mkjung · 29 August 2026
OpenClaw · Personal life
Negotiating a car with several dealerships at once
The agent contacts and negotiates with several dealerships in parallel, via browser, email and iMessage. Follow-up posted the next day: $4,200 saved (https://x.com/astuyve/status/2014147784098681217).
Reported result: $4,200 saving reported on the purchase.
For a small business: Yes: getting suppliers to compete by email works for small business purchases (vehicles, equipment).
Source: @astuyve · 21 Jan 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
A recipe database sortable by protein
Muse turns saved recipes into a small sortable database.
Reported result: Recipes organised and filterable.
For a small business: Partly: an idea for a restaurant (recipe sheets).
Source: @KristyT · 24 Sep 2026
OpenClaw · Development
Ideas by day, experiments by night
A “log” skill records every idea as a task; at night, a scheduled task runs experiments (research via “scientist” sub-agents, code); in the morning, the author decides and the agent writes a decision record (context, alternatives, pros/cons).
Reported result: An idea → decision pipeline documented automatically.
For a small business: Partly: the “decision record” idea is very useful to a business owner; the tooling is technical.
Source: @antonplex · 17 Jan 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
Ad audit and creative ideas in Slack
In Slack, the team asks Hermes to audit 78 ads: the agent pulls spend and performance data; a colleague follows up with ideas for creative refreshes.
Reported result: Audit and recommendations right in the team channel.
For a small business: Yes: small businesses that buy online ads.
Source: @ericosiu · 29 May 2026
Hermes Agent · Creative
From X bookmarks to a NotebookLM podcast
Hermes proposed a workflow on its own: X API → extract lists and bookmarks → structured article → NotebookLM podcast.
Reported result: Monitoring turned into an audio podcast to listen to.
For a small business: Yes: a small business’s industry monitoring turned into audio for the team.
Source: @HeyYanvi · 19 Apr 2026
Hermes Agent · Offbeat
Running Hermes 24/7 from a simple Android phone
Install the Google Cloud app on Android, open Cloud Shell, run “npm install -g hermes-agent” then “hermes setup”, plug in your API keys and Telegram.
Reported result: An always-on agent with no VPS or computer, on Google Cloud’s free tier according to the author.
For a small business: Partly: handy for testing at zero cost, not for sensitive data.
Source: @pengsonal · 13 Jul 2026
Instinct · Personal life
An agent that knows the right moment to follow up
With only email and calendar connected, Instinct links a conversation from last week to an appointment the following week and sends a text before the user even notices.
Reported result: Proactive without pre-programmed rules.
For a small business: Yes: preparing client meetings.
Source: @losingmyego · 21 August 2026
Meta Muse · Offbeat
Cautionary tale: Muse on Marketplace leaks an address
By clicking “Always allow”, the user lets Muse reply to buyers on its own using a template containing the pickup address; a misleading display also suggests an offer below the minimum price was accepted.
Reported result: Address leaked; Meta says it wants to clarify the option.
For a small business: Lesson for a small business: never grant permanent permission for outgoing messages.
Source: @MattRobbt · 29 Sep 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
A refund $5 short, chased every 3 days
Muse notices a refund came in $5 short, writes to the store and checks every three days.
Reported result: “Nobody chases $5.”
For a small business: Yes: reconciling supplier credits and refunds.
Source: @armand_ruiz · 25 Sep 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Tracking down duplicate medical bills
Connected to the healthcare provider’s portal, Muse pulls the itemised bills, disputes each line and asks for discounts.
Reported result: More than $4,000 saved according to the author.
For a small business: Yes: auditing a small business’s supplier invoices.
Source: @Ryan_Holdaway · 23 Sep 2026
OpenClaw · Personal life
The household project manager agent
In a Discord with his wife: each adds a topic (“kitchen renovation”), the agent does the research, everything piles up in a shared file; on Saturday at 22 a.m. it prepares a prioritised brief, on Sunday at 9 it sends the recap.
Reported result: Household projects move forward on a weekly ritual.
For a small business: Yes: the same ritual works for a small team (topics added as they come, weekly review).
Source: @tonylongname · 7 Jan 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
LinkedIn prospecting agents for consulting firms
When a prospect replies on LinkedIn, Lemlist pushes the event to Slack; Hermes reads the conversation via the Lemlist API and decides what’s next. Deployed for consulting firms and web agencies. (Article-format X post; content quoted on Nous Research’s official User Stories page.)
Reported result: Prospect replies handled automatically for several clients.
For a small business: Yes: firms and agencies that prospect on LinkedIn.
Source: @leploutos · 11 Sep 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
The Dot opens its own threads and writes in them as it works
Demo: the Dot creates its own ChatGPT/Codex threads and messages them on its own as the work progresses.
Reported result: Proactive orchestration of several threads.
For a small business: Partly.
Source: @daniel_mac8 · 30 Sep 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
The Dot merges 15 PRs during dinner
During a walk and dinner, the computer merges about 15 PRs, waits for CI, resolves conflicts, builds the app, updates dependencies and sends a phone notification.
Reported result: Everything is ready to pick up again on your return.
For a small business: Partly (dev).
Source: @martiano · 2 Oct 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
A startup’s support, banking, Stripe and SEO run by agents
Dropmagic’s founder uses Hermes as the “backbone”: support, banking, Stripe, analytics, marketing and SEO are run by agents. (Article-format X post; quoted on Nous Research’s User Stories page.)
Reported result: Several company functions run by agents for months.
For a small business: Partly: an inspiring vision; start with a single function.
Source: @LoicBerthelot · 21 May 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
A phone call to the Dot to report a bug to OpenAI
From his terrace, the author calls his Dot: it finds an old Codex thread, files the bug report through the Codex CLI and sends a follow-up DM to an OpenAI employee.
Reported result: Bug filed and follow-up sent.
For a small business: Partly: the “voice call → ticket + follow-up” pattern works for vendor support.
Source: @DevAdventur3s · 2 Oct 2026
Instinct · Personal life
Restaurants, hairdresser and small chores
An everyday-life test: restaurant bookings, finding a hairdresser, sorting out small put-off tasks.
Reported result: The agent only comes back when it has something useful.
For a small business: Partly.
Source: @matteomadd · 29 August 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Bringing down the price of a new car by writing to dealerships
Muse emails several dealerships and plays them off against each other.
Reported result: More than $2,000 saved.
For a small business: Yes: competitive purchasing (vehicles, equipment).
Source: @advaith_sridhar · 1 Oct 2026
OpenClaw · Personal life
Filing an insurance claim and booking the repair
The agent fills in the claim with the insurer, then books the repair slot.
Reported result: Claim filed and appointment set the same day.
For a small business: Yes: insurance claims (company vehicles, premises) and booking appointments.
Source: @avi_press · 19 Jan 2026
OpenAI Dots · Personal life
Hourly check of ChatGPT quotas, added to the calendar
Logged into ChatGPT in the Dot’s browser, the author asks it to check his quota reset date every hour and update his calendar.
Reported result: Quotas tracked without thinking about it.
For a small business: Partly: tracking subscription usage.
Source: @hamachi_ttr · 14 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Creative
One Instagram carousel a day, including one with 600K views
The bot helps produce at least one Instagram carousel a day; the author shares his template with other creators.
Reported result: One carousel with more than 600,000 views.
For a small business: Yes: regular social media content for a brand.
Source: @GetTORTA · 10 Oct 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Recovering $1,400 from an old rental insurance dispute
Muse handles a two-year-old car rental insurance claim on its own for a week.
Reported result: $1,400 recovered.
For a small business: Yes: chasing disputes and supplier claims.
Source: @LDrogen · 1 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
A tracking site as the front desk, local Codex behind it
The author builds a progress-tracking site connected to the Dot via MCP, with access for that site to run Codex from the command line on a local machine. The Dot becomes the single point of contact.
Reported result: Just talk to the Dot; progress updates on the site.
For a small business: Partly (technical).
Source: @TukikaNagi · 14 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
Bug and data issue fixed overnight
The Dot works on the tasks overnight, tests and checks the fixes, leaves a report in the morning; it also tested a product improvement without deploying it, lacking approval.
Reported result: Both problems are solved by morning.
For a small business: Yes for a small software company; holding back before deploying is the right instinct.
Source: @softypapa · 30 Sep 2026
Instinct · Personal life
Family flights, orders and school emails
Instinct books the family’s flights end to end, places orders and keeps an eye on the kids’ school emails.
Reported result: “Less an assistant you chat with than an assistant you delegate to.”
For a small business: Yes: an executive assistant for a business owner.
Source: @srcasm · 31 August 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
Christmas lights quotes with photo mock-ups
The bot prepares quotes for customers wanting lights installed, with realistic photo mock-ups; it also enters giveaways every day.
Reported result: More convincing quotes thanks to the visuals.
For a small business: Yes: tradespeople and installers (quote + before/after visual).
Source: @HomesteadHero · 10 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
Stats for 5 networks and subscription tracking
One bot pulls followers and posts from 5 platforms every morning and syncs Notion and a dashboard; another tracks every subscription, its cost and renewal date.
Reported result: Two recurring tasks off your mind.
For a small business: Yes: tracking a small business’s social networks and SaaS subscriptions.
Source: @eze_is_1 · 12 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
Progress update requested during a walk
Asking his Dot for a progress check during a walk.
Reported result: 1,148 tests passed in the time it took to walk half the block.
For a small business: Partly (dev).
Source: @softypapa · 8 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
A prospecting bot that lands 4 client meetings
Using an outbound prospecting bot shared publicly as a template.
Reported result: 4 client meetings in one week.
For a small business: Yes: B2B prospecting, with human approval of messages.
Source: @fraserindex · 10 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
Analysing a plumbing company’s invoices and customer feedback
The service manager of a plumbing company automates the analysis of each technician’s invoices and customer feedback, building the process together with the bot.
Reported result: A tedious task automated “for real people, not just techies”.
For a small business: Yes: home service businesses.
Source: @KtdSnav · 11 Oct 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Buying the whole school supplies list at the best price
Muse buys the son’s long supplies list, hunting for the best price.
Reported result: Hours saved.
For a small business: Yes: restocking office supplies.
Source: @miliaxy · 8 Sep 2026
OpenAI Dots · Business & SMEs
All the Dot’s tasks tracked as Notion cards
The Dot orchestrates everything in Notion: it creates cards and moves them from “to do” to “in progress” to “done”.
Reported result: Visual tracking of the agent’s work.
For a small business: Yes: a Notion board the whole team can read.
Source: @byron_miller · 11 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
Monitoring network disruptions across 5,000 sites
The bot watches the network incidents inbox, analyses the performance of 5,000 sites to detect logistics breakdowns, runs AWS queries, checks service levels and escalations on X, then tells the team what to fix.
Reported result: The team knows where to step in and what it missed.
For a small business: Partly: logistics and multi-site.
Source: @exorcismdog · 10 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Offbeat
Grok Bot and Muse talking by email
The author installs Claude Code and Codex in Grok Bot and has his Grok Bot talk to his Meta Muse agent by email.
Reported result: Two agents from two different vendors talk to each other.
For a small business: Not for now.
Source: @dee_taylor_dev · 11 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Business & SMEs
$1,424/year in hosting saved by consolidating servers
The bot takes over admin of 4 sites and consolidates the servers.
Reported result: $1,424 saved per year; “it paid for itself today”.
For a small business: Yes: small businesses with several sites (be careful with server access).
Source: @paulctan · 11 Oct 2026
Grok Bot · Creative
5 bots produce a video from start to finish
One bot finds sources, another writes the script, another animates, a last one publishes; the human just approves.
Reported result: Video on SpaceX booster landings produced and published.
For a small business: Yes: a content production line with final approval.
Source: @tutao0123 · 10 Oct 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
Support tickets turned into help article ideas
The founder of a podcast host shares his agent and knowledge base with the team; first automatic scan of new support tickets to spot help and blog articles to create or update.
Reported result: 6 help article suggestions and 2 marketing suggestions from the very first scan.
For a small business: Yes: any small business with customer support.
Source: @TheCraigHewitt · 27 August 2026
Hermes Agent · Business & SMEs
Razorpay gives an isolated Hermes agent to over 220 employees
Every employee has an always-on agent in their own isolated Kubernetes space, with encrypted storage, cloud identity and dedicated network rules.
Reported result: More than 220 agents, about 84 active on a typical day.
For a small business: Not as is (large company), but a good reference on data isolation.
Source: Razorpay Engineering (blog) · 12 Jul 2026
Instinct · Personal life
A table at Dorsia
Thanks to Instinct, the author gets a booking at a much sought-after restaurant.
Reported result: Booking secured.
For a small business: Partly: bookings for business meals.
Source: @willkyi · 5 Sep 2026
Instinct · Personal life
Five errands in five days, including a renegotiated Comcast bill
According to the Fintech Brainfood newsletter, Sheel Mohnot used Instinct to find an in-network podiatrist and fill in the forms, renegotiate his Comcast bill, book a DMV appointment and link two United bookings.
Reported result: Comcast bill down from $100 to $60.
For a small business: Yes: renegotiating a small business’s telecom contracts.
Source: Simon Taylor (Fintech Brainfood), on Sheel Mohnot · 3 Sep 2026
Instinct · Personal life
A family lunch moved twice by voice note
Instinct books a pub through a temperamental web form, then moves the booking twice with a simple voice note (“push it back 90 minutes”), remembering the context. It also booked cycling classes.
Reported result: Bookings changed without restating the context.
« You know that thing we did? Move it back 90 minutes. »
For a small business: Yes: managing recurring bookings.
Source: Simon Taylor (Fintech Brainfood) · 3 Sep 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Broken water heater: comparison, quotes and installation booked
Model number sent at noon: Muse compares prices across 3 stores, asks 2 installers for quotes by email and books the Thursday job.
Reported result: Quote at $1,450 versus $2,300 for the other.
For a small business: Yes: premises maintenance purchases.
Source: @PipeBladex · 23 Sep 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
Checking the price of already-booked hotels every day
During a trip to Korea, Muse sets up daily price monitoring for the booked hotels.
Reported result: $150 drop detected, rebooked and the old booking cancelled.
For a small business: Yes: business travel.
Source: @ArnovitzZevi · 30 Sep 2026
Meta Muse · Personal life
A family weekend that reorganises itself
Muse plans a long weekend in Vermont around everyone’s interests; when people drop out and the weather turns, it redoes the bookings.
Reported result: Plan adapted without any input.
For a small business: Yes: organising offsites or team trips.
Source: @rmsherman · 8 Sep 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
“EA”: the Dot as executive assistant for his Codex threads
The Dot finds the right Codex thread by topic or project, passes on the intent and reports back with a summary.
Reported result: No more hunting for the right thread.
For a small business: Partly.
Source: @madebydia · 14 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · Personal life
The Dot spots a delayed flight on its own and urges a connection change
Dot set up with email access; unprompted, it flags a flight delay and suggests changing the connection, then follows up at the second delay.
Reported result: The connection did indeed have to be changed.
« I never asked it to do any of this. »
For a small business: Yes: tracking team travel.
Source: @VeitB (OpenAI forum) · 1 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · Business & SMEs
Meeting minutes scheduled in advance
The Dot is scheduled to fetch the Google transcript of the next day’s meeting and send decisions, actions, owners and deadlines, in comparison with the Motion tool.
Reported result: Minutes planned with no further instruction.
For a small business: Yes: meeting minutes.
Source: @curt.kennedy (OpenAI forum) · 1 Oct 2026
OpenAI Dots · Development
An Android game fixed and a Play Store listing prepared during the workday
A missing sound is reported: investigation, fix and new Expo build; while the author is at work, the Dot prepares the Play Store descriptions and visuals and watches Google security alerts.
Reported result: Fix approved, store listing ready.
For a small business: Partly.
Source: @jammyrob28 (OpenAI forum) · 12 Oct 2026
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