Real examples
What people actually got done with AI agents and the tools behind them: the source, how it went, what to watch for and a prompt to try. Plus what the other sites leave out: the tool's price and free tier, the ranking that helps you pick, and a step-by-step recipe where one exists.
65 real examples. Attributed to the source linked below; not our own test.
65 examples
Claude Spreadsheets, data & finance Asked three AI assistants to fix the same broken spreadsheet
Nolen Jonker gave ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini his messy article-tracking sheet, which had typos, text dates, minutes logged as hours and shuffled word counts, and asked each to find and fix the errors.
Claude Build apps (vibe coding) Let an AI agent build a 3D museum showcase site alone
Hady Raie gave Claude Opus 5.5 (as named in his video) one prompt for a 3D interactive showcase of the Grand Egyptian Museum, and left it for about 90 minutes. It made its own plan, generated images, turned them into 3D, wrote the code, screenshotted and fixed its own bugs, and published the site.
Claude E-commerce, ads & marketing Asked Claude for a Jumia-style Shopify theme, finished by hand
Moroccan creator Anas AI prompted Claude (the latest Opus model) to produce a marketplace-style Shopify theme as a zip file modelled on Jumia's layout, uploaded it to Shopify, then edited sections, texts, prices and collections in the theme editor.
ElevenLabs Customer service & WhatsApp Phoned patients about abnormal vitals with a voice AI agent
Cadence, a remote-care company for chronic disease, built a voice agent that calls a patient when a vital sign is out of range, runs a symptom check under written clinical protocols and warm-transfers to a nurse when needed.
Lovable Build apps (vibe coding) Built a delivery platform for a groundworks business for about $500
Thomas Kednert, who runs a groundworks business north of Stockholm, and a tech-savvy friend built Kbag in Lovable over about three weeks: a site for ordering construction materials and waste collection, with live truck tracking, driver views and address-based pricing.
ElevenLabs Video creation & editing Added automatic video dubbing in 40 languages to a platform
Vimeo built automated dubbing into its video platform using ElevenLabs' API, which transcribes, translates, clones the voice and speaks the result in one flow, and lets customers edit the text tracks before publishing.
Claude Code Automation & AI agents Ported a 1993 Amiga game to Godot with Claude Code
Rabah Shihab, who made Babylonian Twins in Baghdad in 1993, asked Claude Code to port his 2010 C++ engine to Godot 4, rebuild the original 68000 assembly game, and ship the original as a second launch option in the Steam version.
ElevenLabs Voice, avatars & transcription Chose a transcription engine by testing ten providers
Fyxer, which makes an AI email assistant and meeting notetaker, benchmarked ten speech-to-text providers on its own meeting recordings, ran a live A/B test, and then made ElevenLabs Scribe its only transcription provider.
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) Study, summaries & research Used NotebookLM to extract data for a systematic review
A team of gastroenterology researchers loaded 57 articles into NotebookLM notebooks, used structured prompts to fill evidence tables and draft 70 candidate consensus statements, then had two reviewers check every output against the full texts.
Claude Code Build apps (vibe coding) Built an AI personal-trainer web app with Claude Code in 34 minutes
In an Arabic walkthrough, Abdallah Khraisat builds a web app with sign-up, login and a database that generates a weekly workout plan from the equipment each user has at home. He builds it all in Claude Code, connects an AI model through an OpenRouter key, tests it, and publishes it through Hostinger.
Cursor Build apps (vibe coding) What happens when a coding agent tries to fix a staging error alone
PocketOS, a small software firm serving car-rental companies, had a Cursor agent (running Claude Opus 4.6, per ABC News) hit a credential mismatch in staging. It chose on its own to fix it by deleting a Railway volume.
Make Customer service & WhatsApp Run a WhatsApp agent that matches community members with each other
OPUS, a community platform for early-stage founders, built two Make AI agents and about 49 workflows. One gathers member data from forms, call transcripts and voice notes; the other, called "operator", answers members on WhatsApp and makes introductions when both sides agree.
Kling AI Video creation & editing Ran eight hands-on tests of Kling 3.0 for cinematic clips
Loai Khalidi tested Kling 3.0 through the Higgsfield platform: a multi-shot scene from one prompt, readable on-screen text, character consistency from a start frame, motion transfer from a reference clip, start-and-end-frame transitions, sound with lip-sync, and background-swap editing.
Manus Automation & AI agents Use Manus for a month on research, sites and job applications
Abdallah Elsayed paid for a month of Manus and tried it on competitor research for a burger restaurant in Cairo (spreadsheet plus presentation), a creator website that it researched, built, tested and put online, YouTube competitor analysis, and applying to jobs with a test CV.
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) Study, summaries & research Searched years of case reporting with NotebookLM
French regional paper La Dépêche du Midi loaded its coverage of the Jubillar case (900 articles, 500 pages of confidential documents and over 1,000 internal notes) into NotebookLM to rebuild timelines and prepare for the trial.
GitHub Copilot Build apps (vibe coding) Assign bug fixes and cleanups to GitHub Copilot coding agent
Microsoft's .NET team let maintainers assign work to Copilot coding agent in the dotnet/runtime repo for ten months, then published the numbers.
ElevenLabs Voice, avatars & transcription Fixed robotic Arabic ElevenLabs voice-overs by prepping text by hand
A creator explains why stock ElevenLabs voices sound artificial in Arabic and shows his fix: create your own voice, add diacritics with a chat model and then review them word by word, and rewrite the text so the tool pronounces it correctly (only commas and periods, English-origin words like 'video' spelled phonetically, a few Arabic words respelled).
WATI Customer service & WhatsApp Answer routine health-platform questions on WhatsApp in Arabic
Altibbi, an Arab-world telehealth and Arabic medical-content provider, moved its WhatsApp conversations to WATI, using chatbot automation for routine and subscription questions plus bulk campaigns and live reporting.
n8n Automation & AI agents Turn long government solicitations into first-draft proposals
Field Aerospace, a company of about 250 people, built n8n workflows behind an internal web app: staff upload solicitations, n8n splits them into sections, drafts answers from the firm's approved past material, builds a requirements matrix and scores new opportunities each day.
n8n Customer service & WhatsApp Automate blocked-payment support tickets end to end
Koralplay used n8n to handle blocked-payment tickets the way a level-2 agent did: log into the back office with multi-factor authentication, look up the transaction, check regulatory status, update the ticket in Notion and message the customer with the answer.
Claude Build apps (vibe coding) Vibe-coded a mini app in an hour, then needed 100 hours to ship it
Mac Budkowski scoped an idea with ChatGPT and built Cryptosaurus with Claude Opus: a Farcaster mini app that turns a profile picture into a dino-styled image, generated through the Gemini API, which users can mint for $2.
Claude Automation & AI agents Have Claude in Chrome edit and move newsletter posts for you
A Substack writer left Claude in Chrome three editing jobs in her publishing editor: add linked paragraphs to a live post without emailing subscribers, move a portfolio post into Substack with its links, and add a heading to an older post.
Gamma Presentations & decks Compared Claude in PowerPoint with Gamma on a pitch deck
Patrick Schaber built a pitch deck for his AI consulting business in both Claude's PowerPoint add-in and Gamma, then tailored it to industrial manufacturers using a 20-page PDF.
Lovable Build apps (vibe coding) Replaced a $40,000 Salesforce contract with a Lovable CRM
Atonom, a company that sells AI agents as virtual employees, had its head of finance and legal build an internal CRM in Lovable with lead capture, a pipeline dashboard and ARR tracking, connected to its AI sales agent and to Slack alerts.
Claude Code Automation & AI agents Built a private social app in a week with Claude Code
Christopher Meiklejohn, a software engineer, used Claude Code, starting from an iPad, to build an invite-only app for friends to share live music recordings, films and books, with a Go backend and native iOS and Android builds.
Claude Meetings & productivity Tidy a desktop with Claude Cowork (and what went wrong)
Nick Davidov asked Claude Cowork to organize his wife's desktop, including removing temporary Office files. Per t3n, it tried to merge folders named "Photos" and "photos" and, since macOS ignores case, deleted both with a terminal command.
Fireflies.ai Meetings & productivity Turned client discovery calls into developer specs in hours
FourAngle Consulting, a Berlin NetSuite consultancy, records discovery calls with Fireflies, then moves the relevant transcript parts into the process-mapping tool Splotch to draw the process and draft a spec for developers.
Unifonic Customer service & WhatsApp Ran Ramadan donation campaigns over WhatsApp
ZMZM, a non-profit health charity in the Makkah Region, used Unifonic's WhatsApp messaging as its main outbound channel for Ramadan, with one-tap donation flows and a chatbot that answers questions and hands off to human agents.
Claude Meetings & productivity Ask Claude Cowork which of your drafts are ready to publish
Simon Willison pointed Claude Cowork at his blog-drafts folder and asked it to find drafts from the last three months, check whether each was already published on his site, and suggest the closest to ready.
Creatify E-commerce, ads & marketing Made 150+ video ad variants for a struggling ad account
Ad agency Unicorn Marketers took over a Designrr ad account spending $5,000 a day at 0.77 ROAS and used Creatify to produce 150+ video variations in about two weeks, testing new use cases, UGC-style avatars, hooks and aspect ratios.
Claude Code Study, summaries & research Found hidden links across 100 books with Claude Code
Pieter Maes indexed 100 non-fiction books and gave Claude Code command-line search tools so it could chain short excerpts from different books around one idea, which he calls trails, instead of using a fixed multi-step pipeline.
Claude Code Build apps (vibe coding) Turned 470 photos of books into a digital bookshelf
Marius Balaj had Claude Code build a web app that shows his personal library as a shelf of book spines. A vision model reads titles from photos, Open Library supplies covers and page counts, and a second model call scores whether each cover is good enough.
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) Study, summaries & research Showed how to study a slide-heavy medical course with NotebookLM
Waleed recalls an oral medicine course with about 180 slides per topic across roughly 12 lectures, then shows how he would now load the files into NotebookLM, chat with chosen sources, and generate a mind map, a quiz and an Egyptian-Arabic podcast-style overview on root canal treatment.
Lovable Build apps (vibe coding) Swapped written specs for working prototypes
Evangelos Foutakoglou, who leads a consumer product team at Delivery Hero in Greece and Cyprus, built a working prototype of a loyalty-rewards feature in Lovable in one hour and demoed it live to a customer before engineering began.
Runway Video creation & editing Used AI video for battle scenes in a streaming series
Showrunner Jon Erwin used generative AI for crowd and battle shots in season 2 of Amazon's House of David, including Runway's image-to-video tools alongside products from Luma, Google and Adobe.
OpenAI Codex Build apps (vibe coding) Fire off code research jobs to async agents and read the results later
Simon Willison ran two or three short research prompts a day on fire-and-forget coding agents (Codex Cloud, Claude Code for web, Jules, Copilot coding agent) in a throwaway GitHub repo, for example benchmarking Python Markdown libraries and compiling a C extension to WebAssembly.
Custom or in-house AI Video creation & editingMade holiday ads with AI studios, and viewers pushed back
For the second year running, Coca-Cola released AI-generated "Holidays Are Coming" ads made with the studios Silverside and Secret Level, showing animals watching festive trucks roll through towns.
ChatGPT Chat assistants & writing Said part of a villa compound was designed with 500 ChatGPT prompts
On a panel at Gitex Global 2025, G42 chief executive Peng Xiao said a Japanese-style compound with indoor and outdoor living spaces, part of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed's home in Abu Dhabi, was designed by the chairman prompting ChatGPT about 500 times.
Claude Automation & AI agents Let Claude in Chrome set up analytics and look up a QuickBooks account
Ernest Chiang gave Claude for Chrome (research preview) two jobs: configure Google Tag Manager and GA4, and find one account's transaction history in QuickBooks. It worked by screenshot, step by step, asking for approval per domain.
Elicit Study, summaries & research Tested Elicit against four published evidence reviews
Two UK health researchers ran Elicit's review mode on the questions of four published evidence syntheses (on vaping, physical activity, fertility treatment and breast reconstruction) and compared what it found with the original searches.
Claude Code Automation & AI agents Revived a 25-year-old Linux tape driver with Claude Code
Dmitry Brant, a hobbyist who recovers data from 1990s tape cartridges, asked Claude Code to update an unmaintained floppy-tape kernel driver so it would build on modern Linux, load as a module and read a real tape.
Gemini Study, summaries & research Offered Saudi university students a free year of Gemini Pro
Google, with Saudi Arabia's International Center for AI Research and Ethics, offered university students aged 18 and over a free one-year Gemini Pro subscription. Arab News lists NotebookLM audio summaries, Veo 3 video, research tools and 2 TB of storage among the benefits.
ChatGPT Chat assistants & writing Gave ChatGPT Enterprise to every employee
Japanese company MIXI made ChatGPT Enterprise available to all employees, about 2,000 people, in March 2025 and surveyed them three months later.
Perplexity Automation & AI agents Test Perplexity's Comet browser on shopping, video and email tasks
An Arabic YouTube channel used Comet's assistant to hunt for a working promo code at a web-hosting checkout, jump to a moment in a long video, order ingredients from an online supermarket in Cairo by voice, and email a colleague.
ChatGPT Automation & AI agents Hand ChatGPT agent mode a written checklist for a chore
Jonathan Stark wrote a detailed step-by-step procedure for a fairly involved task and let ChatGPT's agent mode work through it while he watched.
Replit Build apps (vibe coding) Vibe-coded an app on Replit until the agent deleted the database
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin spent about a week building an app with Replit's AI agent and posted about it publicly as he went.
n8n Customer service & WhatsApp Wired WhatsApp Business to an n8n AI agent that answers customers
Aziz Basha builds an n8n workflow in which a WhatsApp Business message reaches an AI agent node backed by an OpenAI chat model, which analyses the message and sends the reply. He walks through the Meta developer setup and shares the workflow files free.
ChatGPT Chat assistants & writing Used ChatGPT to structure a family-memories startup
Hams Nabeel, a working mother who founded Thikra to help families preserve memories, told Arab News that ChatGPT helped her draft a structural plan for the business, its mission and vision, and social media posts. She pairs it with QuickBooks for finances and Salla for the online store.
Google Flow (Veo) Video creation & editing Made an ad for Kalshi with AI video in three days
Filmmaker PJ Accetturo made an ad for Kalshi with Google's Veo 3 video model, working from batches of prompts he generated and refined over many rounds.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Meetings & productivity Rolled out Copilot across a bank and sped up contract review
Commercial Bank of Dubai gave Microsoft 365 Copilot to teams in audit, legal, HR and finance, backed by internal champions and 'prompt-a-thon' workshops that produced a shared library of tested prompts.
Custom or in-house AI Careers & CVs Piloted AI to shortlist CVs and check staff performance goals
Abu Dhabi's Department of Government Enablement described HR pilots at a media roundtable: an AI that screens CVs and returns a top ten when a vacancy draws 2,000 applications, and an 'AI Objective Builder' that checks whether staff goals are specific and realistic against the job description and KPIs.
Jules Build apps (vibe coding) Try Google's Jules agent on a broken chatbox in your site
Robert Matsuoka tried Jules in its I/O 2025 beta on a real bug: a homepage chatbox that was not sending requests to the OpenAI Assistants API. He also asked it to read his GitHub issues.
Make Automation & AI agents Let AI sort customer text replies and close the routine ones
Stellantis &You UK, a dealer group with 30+ UK locations, built a Make automation that sends booking confirmations and reminders by SMS and uses OpenAI to read customer replies, flag the ones Aftersales must handle and close the rest.
ChatGPT Customer service & WhatsApp Klarna replaced support agents with AI, then hired humans back
Klarna launched an AI customer-service assistant, froze hiring for over a year and said in 2024 it did the work of 700 agents. In 2025 its CEO said the company would recruit human support agents again.
Midjourney Images & design Ran the same image prompts through Midjourney v7 and ChatGPT live
Mahmoud Elsamalosy ran identical portrait prompts, starting with a close-up of a Persian cat, through paid ChatGPT (o3 model) and paid Midjourney v7 and compared speed and quality as they generated.
Claude Careers & CVs Built an AI-ready resume that assistants can query
Jake Gaylor turned his resume into an MCP server that AI assistants can connect to, so they can check how he fits a role, answer questions about his background, see calendar slots and email him. He open-sourced it, and used Claude to generate an llms.txt file from his resume and site.
Gemini Chat assistants & writing Switched on Gemini across email, docs and meetings
MEDITECH, which serves healthcare organisations, turned on Gemini in Google Workspace for its staff and uses it to summarise Meet calls, take meeting notes, draft emails and documents, and share industry news in Chat.
Unifonic Customer service & WhatsApp Moved appointment booking onto a WhatsApp chatbot
Dr. Samir Abbas Hospital, a women's healthcare provider in Saudi Arabia, added an AI chatbot to its WhatsApp channel through Unifonic to book appointments, send reminders and answer common questions, alongside SMS and WhatsApp campaigns.
Midjourney Images & design Made a car ad for Saudi Arabia with AI images and no car
Dubai agency Lion Creative made Volvo's 'Come Back Stronger' ad for the Saudi market, producing the images with Midjourney and the video with Runway; a human wrote the narration script and ChatGPT added emotional expression.
Manus Study, summaries & research Put Manus to work on research lists and an apartment search
MIT Technology Review's reporter gave Manus three jobs: list notable journalists covering China tech, find two-bedroom New York apartments within criteria, and nominate 50 candidates for its Innovators Under 35 list.
Midjourney Images & design Made a tiny handmade gift book with Midjourney illustrations
Stanko Tadić generated the illustrations for a miniature bilingual hardcover for his wife in Midjourney using a style reference, then traced and inked them by hand and bound the book himself.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Automation & AI agents Built Copilot agents that answer staff questions on company policy
Saudi mining company Ma'aden rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot with a champion in each business unit, then built Copilot Studio agents inside Teams that answer questions on governance documents and delegation-of-authority rules. Staff also use Copilot for emails, meeting minutes and summaries.
Devin Build apps (vibe coding) Give Devin 20 real coding tasks and count what works
Three engineers at Answer.AI spent a month handing Devin more than 20 tasks: new projects, research, reading existing code and changing existing projects.
n8n Automation & AI agents Built a personal AI agent in n8n
Debbie O'Brien built a chat agent in n8n, with Gemini as the model, that checks the weather, her YouTube stats, her Strava activity and GitHub issues, and emails her a summary through Gmail.
Midjourney Images & design Cut image production costs with AI image tools
Klarna's marketing team used generative AI image tools, including Midjourney, DALL-E and Firefly, to produce campaign images instead of relying on traditional production.
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