How do I…?
18 short guides for everyday tasks, built on real, documented cases from our plays or, for explainers, on primary sources. 7 include the exact prompt the person used, quoted from the source. Where no real prompt is published, we give an AgentPlays template and label it.
How do I dispute a medical bill with AI?
Three people used ChatGPT or Claude to check medical and dental bills line by line, then appeal. Here is what they did and the prompts they shared.
How do I appeal a parking ticket with AI?
A student in York got a £60 council fine overturned with a ChatGPT letter, and a driver in Preston used ChatGPT to fight a private parking charge and win costs.
How do I plan a trip with AI?
Frances Zhu had ChatGPT interview Zhu about an off-the-beaten-path week in Japan. Zhu says planning took about 6 hours instead of 18.
How do I prepare for my child's IEP meeting with AI?
Amanda Caswell used ChatGPT to understand her daughter's IEP, check whether the goals were measurable and prepare questions. She published the prompts she used.
How do I use AI to pay down debt?
Jennifer Allan asked ChatGPT for one money task every day. Allan paid off $12,078.93 of credit card debt in a month, much of it from a forgotten brokerage account.
How do I fix an appliance with AI?
Ewan MacLeod had a new washing machine picked out.
How do I use AI as a gym coach?
Brendan McNulty logged every set to Claude for six weeks. It found McNulty was badly underloading, built a simple program, and McNulty's squat went from 25 kg to 70 kg.
How do I write a résumé and cover letter with AI?
After 10 years away, former lawyer Santiago Barraza Lopez used ChatGPT to tailor his résumé, draft cover letters and run mock interviews, and was hired within two months.
How do I check my lease or security deposit with AI?
When his landlord kept about $1,000 of the deposit, Chris Maloney ran his lease through ChatGPT.
How do I claim flight delay compensation with AI?
Offered a $25 card after an overnight delay, Panos Ipeirotis had ChatGPT guide Ipeirotis through EU261, Norway's complaint body and court. The airline wired $4,760.36.
How do I understand my lab results with AI?
While she waited for her doctor, 76-year-old Judith Miller asked Claude to explain flagged blood-test results, then used what she learned to ask better questions.
How do I ask a store for a refund or exchange with AI?
Aritzia refused in store to exchange final-sale clothes. TikToker @shescutesy emailed a ChatGPT-written request and it was approved.
How do I make a meal plan with AI?
Emily Wise has ChatGPT plan a week of meals for two, then the recipes, then a grocery list with estimated prices. Wise's store total came in just under $150.
How do I practice a language with AI?
Jeff Kaufman used ChatGPT's voice mode and spoke more Spanish in one week than in the previous fifteen years. Kaufman found it needs some baseline fluency.
How do I start using Grok Bot?
Real Grok Bot users have handed it to-do lists from the gym, had it check whether a photographed bill was paid, and had it compare and buy pet insurance after approval.
How do I check a car repair quote with AI?
A shop quoted Kyle Blanchard about $1,800 for work on a Mazda. Blanchard gave an AI agent the quote and the shop's own inspection video, and it found the evidence didn't…
How do I check my tax return for mistakes with AI?
Jeremy Judkins's Grok Bot compared Judkins's 2025 return with the 2024 one and found the Cybertruck was being depreciated on a different schedule, leaving about $15,100…
Decision models, explained
A decision model reads an input and a set of questions and returns a probability for each answer in one pass, without writing text.