Run shopping, trip planning and project tracking with a dot
A reviewer's dot flagged a failed payment unprompted but only read and reported it; a shopping site blocked it and follow-through was unfinished.
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- What they did
- Pat Simmons gave OpenAI's Dots agent shopping, travel, project-tracking and inbox work, connecting Slack, Gmail and a project queue. Amazon blocked the dot's cloud browser, so he separately granted local-browser access. The dot researched trips, built a rough training dashboard, scheduled weekday status summaries, and flagged a failed $22 Vercel payment without being asked to watch billing.
- How it went
- The shopping reached a cart but no purchase. No trip was booked. The dashboard was rough, and the payment alert was only reported, not fixed or independently verified.
- Worth knowing
- Dots is rolling out gradually to eligible Pro users outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. Pat kept issue closures as proposals for his approval.
Try it yourself with Dots
Act as my always-on assistant for [shopping, trip planning, and tracking my project: name]. Each day, check [email or payment account] for problems like failed payments and tell me right away what you find. Don't pay, send or change anything without showing me the action first.
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