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What people actually did with Muse this week

Phone negotiations with carriers, cancelled subscriptions with refunds, daycare calls, coupon clipping, job applications and a business built from scratch. A roundup of real Muse use cases reported on Reddit.

Two threads on r/MetaAI asked the same question this week: what is the coolest thing you have done with Muse? Between them they drew close to a hundred replies. Most were the usual invite-code trading, but the rest are the most useful picture of what Meta's agent does in real life that we have seen so far. Here is what people reported, grouped by the kind of job.

Money and admin

The most upvoted reply came from a user who had Muse call AT&T to ask for a discount because coverage at home was poor. The call went through several transfers and departments and lasted 98 minutes, with Muse on the line the whole time. The same person had it call Verizon and T-Mobile in parallel to negotiate their best offers, with the agent holding all the context on their current plans, payoff amounts and bills. Then it called three local companies for fence quotes.

Another user cancelled Adobe and got 400 dollars of membership fees back. They also cancelled a wine club that insisted on a certified letter: Muse wrote the letter, arranged the mailing through an online service and summarised every cancellation attempt.

Someone else had it clip every coupon at every local grocery store and called it a cheat code. One person had it check airline prices across a huge region. Another asked it to scope a future vacation and got a budget plus an itinerary in a detailed PDF.

Selling, shopping and the house

Selling things on Facebook Marketplace came up more than once. One user said the posting itself is simple, and the better part is a scheduled search: they told Muse what they like and it returns a list of free items very close to them.

A parent had Muse build a spreadsheet of every daycare nearby, then call them for prices and waitlist availability. Only two of ten picked up, but the transcripts showed it navigating phone menus and talking to real people. A caveat from the same thread: it will only call numbers it judges to be businesses, not personal contacts.

Work and careers

One reply described a whole day of Muse applying for jobs, then setting up calendar events the night before for a workout plan and a meal prep plan it had put together around a budget, plus an event calendar for a game they play. Others said they run a YouTube channel end to end with it, or use it to post to TikTok and focus on channel growth without a business API.

A separate post titled Muse Success Story described building an AI consulting business with it from nothing: website, company registration, tax ID, bank account, marketing material and business cards. The first customer arrived within days. The author's advice was to have Muse scan for local businesses with obvious gaps, such as no website or a messy scheduling process.

The power-user end

One commenter gave Muse a phone number through ElevenLabs so it could make calls, an SSH login to their computer so it can read and answer messages there, and an API into their home automation. They also said it did their taxes and an expense report. Another used SSH access to clean old files off a machine and to read text messages for the two-factor codes it needs.

What to take from it

The jobs that impressed people share a shape: a clear outcome, a lot of tedious steps in between, and a human who checks the result. Phone calls, cancellations, claims and comparisons fit that shape. The replies also carried warnings. Calling is rolling out slowly and refuses for some accounts, and one user said it hallucinates when you pile on too many tasks at once and behaves when you keep the load small.

If you want to try any of these, the starter workflows linked below give you a written brief to paste in, and the invite code pool gets you 1 billion tokens to run them with.

Sources

These are reports from other people, quoted with links. Sundog has not reproduced them. Try the matching starter workflow and tell the community what happened.

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