These agents run my company and life

Elon Musk liked what my agents are up to and tweeted it twice this week:

Check out these 6 examples of how agents are becoming real employees at my company.

(Maybe give this email to your agent and ask “how can you do some of this for me?”)

I hate posting on social.

So I created a “PR agent” on Grok Bot and told it to look through my email, Slack, and Granola meeting notes, etc for things I’d accomplished that I couldn’t stop talking about.

Every day, it sends me three ideas.

On Oct 3, it noticed I couldn’t stop talking about a geeky setup: Claude + Codex + Grok. All 3 worked together.

It suggested I teach people how I did it.

That’s what I like about this agent. It finds the things I’m already talking about with my team and gives me a reason to share them.

So I wrote the post. It took off.

Then Elon quote-posted it with one word, “True,” and it got over a million views.

The next morning, Peri spotted that the post had taken off. It suggested a follow-up answering the questions people were asking in the replies.

That did even better! And yes, Elon reshared that too.

We rented out the property we’d been living in in Texas. It’s now a wellness center.

Suddenly I have a new job: property management.

So I created Maggie.

She turns utility bills into tenant invoices and ensures they’re paid.

The garbage bill I received.

The invoice Maggie created for the tenant.

She’s way more accurate than I’ll ever be.

The September electric bill included some days that I lived on the property. It wouldn’t be fair to charge that to our tentant.

So Maggie logged into the electric company’s site and did the math on what the bill should be based on actual usage.

The breakdown above uses 1,675.17 kWh for my share and 1,157.81 kWh for the tenant’s share.

I love using my agents. But when I exceeded my subscriptions’ weekly use limit, the extra charges were outrageous.

$40. Then $60. Then $80. And more. For just 2 days!

I asked my agent what was costing so much.

It told me that routine checks, like looking at my calendar over and over, were burning through my usage.

So I asked: could we move those to Zapier?

It said: Yes.

Then it got to work.

Zapier’s Next Gen Zaps let me put the predictable parts into code and bring in an agent when the task needs one.

I even created an agent called Zapier. Its job is to find routines we can move over to save money.

One example: every weekday, it checks my calendar for meetings with no video link, phone number, or address. Then it adds a Zoom link.

Before moving out of Texas, I wanted to sell my trailer and riding lawnmower.

I tried listing the trailer myself and messed up the listing. My head wasn’t in it.

So I created a Marketplace Manager agent.

It relisted the trailer, followed up with interested buyers, and handled the back-and-forth.

I gave it guidelines for negotiation and it handled it.

It sold both:

The buyer trying out the mower.

The trailer being picked up.

It even sold a coffee maker I would have tossed because I didn’t have the patience to deal with it.

It shows me urgent messages that I need to handle, like this recent refund request:

Then it handles what it can do itself:

October 11.

I gave it the job of finding gifts and experiences for Olivia, and nudging me twice a day to make sure I stayed on top of things.

When it suggested something that wasn’t her style, I gave it feedback. Too big. Too heavy. Try something else.

It adjusted it search based on my feedback.

Eventually we settled on a necklace:

It also helped me find her a massage + angel reading experience, since Olivia likes that whoo-whoo kind of thing. And it messaged the practitioner to ensure it was perfect for her.

The anniversary was fantastic!

I recorded a YouTube video about how I use Grok Bot.

Grok Bot produced it.

But even though I asked it to blur out sensitive info, it left it in.

Sucks.

But I can’t let it keep me from using agents.

Mistakes like that reminded me of a book my entrepreneurship professor gave me at NYU: The E-Myth Revisited.

It’s about a founder who does every role at a company. Then he hires someone. But the employee doesn’t do the job as well as the entrepreneur, so the founder gets rid of the employee and does the work himself.

Prof. Boise wanted to warn me about a common founder mistake that I’m capable of making — finding fault and taking on more work.

It’s true with human employees and AI ones.

So I’ll accept mistakes.

Before publishing the video, I asked Michael, our human editor, to remove the sensitive info from the video.

This video shows 10 jobs that I give my agents.

Andrew Warner

PS Are you doing anything bigger with agents? Hit reply and show me.