50 things to ask your agent

Every example below is a verbatim prompt you can paste into your agent chat. They cover the platform’s full range: email, calendar, research, content, scheduled tasks, data analysis, vertical workflows.

Email & inbox

Get out of email and into the work that matters.

1. Inbox triage

Catch me up on my inbox. Flag anything urgent from a customer, everything where I promised a reply, and anything from my top 3 clients. Skip newsletters and auto-notifications.

2. Draft the whole support queue

Draft replies to every support email from this morning using my previous replies as a tone reference. Put them in my approval queue — don’t send yet.

3. Dig up a commitment

Find every email where I discussed pricing with Acme Corp over the last 6 months and give me a timeline of what I agreed to and when.

4. Chase ghosted prospects

For every prospect I emailed 7-10 days ago who hasn’t replied, draft a short personalized follow-up that references something from the original thread — not generic.

5. Auto-unsubscribe audit

Show me every newsletter I haven’t opened in 90 days. For each one, click the unsubscribe link after I approve.

Calendar & scheduling

Own your time instead of letting your calendar own you.

6. Find the right slot

Find 3 open 45-minute slots in my calendar next week for a new-business call. Prefer Tuesday or Thursday afternoons.

7. Protect deep work

Block 8:30–10:00 every weekday on my calendar as ‘Deep work — do not schedule.’ If something conflicts this week, tell me which meetings I’d need to move.

8. Meeting audit

How much of my last month was internal meetings vs customer calls vs solo time? Did I ever have a 4+ hour stretch without a break?

9. Nightly next-day prep

Every weeknight at 9pm, Telegram me tomorrow’s first meeting, who’s attending, and any prep I should do. If there’s nothing, say “clear calendar, good morning.”

10. Multi-party scheduling

Here are availability blocks for me, Jorge (EST), and the Miller team (London). Find the first 1-hour slot that works for everyone in the next 10 days.

Sales & outreach

Fill your pipeline without burning a week on research.

11. Build a prospect list

Build me a CSV of 40 prospects: bootstrapped SaaS founders with 5–20 employees in the US. Columns: name, company, LinkedIn URL, and a one-line hook from their recent posts.

12. Personalized cold email

Draft a cold outreach email to [prospect] that references something specific from their last LinkedIn post or company blog. No “I noticed you’re doing great work” fluff.

13. Case study as signal

Every week, check [competitor]‘s Case Studies page. When they add a new customer, tell me who it is, research their pain points, and tell me if they might be a prospect for us too.

14. Proposal from a template

Draft a proposal for Acme Corp using my standard template. Scope: 3 months of marketing consulting at $7,500/month. Include timeline, deliverables, and a milestone payment schedule.

15. Warm intro pipeline

Check my LinkedIn for new connection requests. For each one that looks like a prospect, draft a warm intro message and add them to a “warm pipeline” file in my workspace.

Marketing & content

Turn one thought into a week of content — in your voice.

16. Repurpose a podcast

Here’s the transcript of my 45-minute podcast interview. Turn it into 3 LinkedIn posts, 2 X threads, and a short blog post summarizing the 3 biggest takeaways.

17. Content ideas from support

Read last month’s support emails. Give me 20 content ideas based on the questions customers actually asked, ranked by frequency.

18. Multi-platform launch copy

Draft a launch announcement for our new Telegram integration. Make three versions: LinkedIn (~300 words, professional), X (thread, under 280 chars each), and email to our list.

19. Testimonial social posts

Write 4 social posts based on the 5-star reviews we got last week. Use only verified quotes. Never make up anything.

20. A month of content

Create a content calendar for next month: 12 LinkedIn posts, 20 X posts, 4 blog post titles, all themed around [topic]. Schedule the social posts for best engagement times and queue them up for my approval.

Research & competitive intel

Know what everyone in your market is doing — without reading anything yourself.

21. Competitor landscape brief

Research the top 5 competitors in [my niche]. Give me a comparison table: pricing, target audience, feature gaps, and their weakest public review.

22. Daily competitor watch

Monitor [competitor]‘s pricing page, blog, and careers page every day. Alert me to any meaningful change, but ignore copy tweaks and timestamp updates.

23. Weekly competitor intel

Every Monday morning, tell me what my top 3 competitors shipped last week — pulled from their changelogs, blogs, and social accounts. Deliver to Telegram.

24. Pre-call deep dive

Before my Thursday call with ReliableLaw, research their recent news, leadership, current initiatives, and any public pain points. Give me a 1-page brief I can read in 5 minutes.

25. Find a podcast tour list

Find every podcast in the last 12 months that has interviewed founders in [my niche]. Rank by estimated audience. Include the host’s contact where public.

Customers & reviews

Treat every customer like they’re your favorite — at scale.

31. Re-engage quiet customers

Here’s my customer list with last-login dates (CSV attached). For everyone who hasn’t logged in in 14 days, draft a personal check-in email that references something they told me in their onboarding call (notes in /workspace/onboarding/).

32. Respond to Google reviews

Draft thoughtful responses to the 8 new Google reviews we got this week. Reference something specific from each review — never boilerplate. Put them in my approval queue.

33. Pattern-find complaints

Summarize every complaint in last month’s support emails. Group by theme, rank by frequency, and flag the ones that mentioned canceling or leaving.

34. Thank-you notes

Identify my 10 most engaged customers this month (from support volume and feedback). Draft a personal thank-you email to each, referencing something specific they said or did.

35. Renewal briefs

For every customer whose renewal is in the next 30 days, prepare a 1-page account brief: usage, any support tickets, recent wins, and any risk signals. Save them to /workspace/renewals/.

Operations, finance & admin

The stuff nobody wants to do but that eats your week.

36. Expense receipt processing

Process these 18 expense receipts I’m uploading. Read each one with vision, categorize (software, travel, meals, etc.), total per category, and give me a CSV I can send my accountant.

37. SaaS subscription audit

Here’s my bank statement for the last 90 days. Find every recurring SaaS charge, list them in descending order of cost, and flag anything I’m paying for but don’t recognize.

38. End-of-week summary

Every Friday at 4pm, write me a weekly summary: what I shipped, what I committed to, what’s blocked, what I deferred. Deliver to Telegram, keep under 200 words.

39. PDF → action items

Convert this PDF of Monday’s meeting notes into a structured action item list with owners, deadlines, and priority. Save it as Markdown in my workspace.

40. Payout reconciliation

Here’s my Stripe payouts CSV and my bank statement PDF. Match them up month by month and flag any discrepancies over $10.

Data & analysis

Real pandas analysis on your actual numbers, not generic charts.

41. Funnel analysis

Analyze this CSV of customer signups from the last 6 months. What’s my top signup source, which one has the best trial-to-paid conversion, and what’s the average time to convert?

42. Pareto on products

Find the 20% of products driving 80% of my revenue. Chart it and tell me which ones I could deprecate without significant impact.

43. Year in review

Pull all my Stripe invoices from 2025 (CSV attached). Calculate total revenue, average deal size, best month, and worst month. Give me a 1-page summary with a chart.

44. Churn diagnosis

Build a churn analysis from my subscription data. Month-over-month churn rate, which plan has the worst retention, and what the cancellation reasons cluster into.

45. Traffic anomalies

Compare my website traffic this quarter vs last quarter (analytics export attached). Flag anything unusual and give me a best guess at likely causes.

Vertical-specific workflows

Five examples from five different businesses, just to show what “your agent configured for your work” actually looks like.

46. Real estate agent — listings watch

Monitor these 8 listings in [my area] under $450k. Every morning, tell me what’s new, what changed price, and what went pending. Send via Telegram.

47. Law firm — intake response templates

Draft response templates for the 10 most common client intake inquiries (wills, custody, contract review, etc.). Use my past responses as the voice reference. Save as a skills doc so future similar inquiries use the same templates.

48. Ecommerce — daily order digest

Every morning at 8am, summarize yesterday’s Shopify orders: top 5 products, total revenue, any refunds, any reviews with less than 4 stars. Deliver via email.

49. Fitness coach — personalized plans

Every Sunday night, draft personalized weekly workout plans for my 12 clients based on their progress notes (/workspace/clients/) and last week’s feedback. Save each one as a PDF.

50. Agency — client status updates

Every Friday, draft weekly status updates for all 6 active client projects. Pull from this week’s Slack activity, GitHub commits, and completed tasks (CSVs attached). Queue them in my approval queue for review before I send.

Notice the patterns

Look back through the list and you’ll see the same handful of patterns doing most of the work:

“Every [schedule], do [task]” — scheduled cron jobs. The highest-leverage pattern by far. Anything you do weekly or daily can run on autopilot.
“Draft [thing], don’t send until I approve” — human-in-the-loop for anything that touches other people. Safe by default, fast in practice.
“Here’s a CSV / PDF / file — process it and [do thing]” — you bring the data, your agent handles the work. This is where the vision and code execution shine.
“Research [target] and give me a [format]” — deep web research with synthesis, not just summarized Google results.
“In my voice / using my template / matching my past tone” — your agent learns your style once and reuses it forever.

You don’t have to memorize any of this. Just start a conversation and describe the outcome you want. Your agent will figure out which pattern to use.