What a Dot did in a week of household admin

Zapier’s Harry Guinness: bounced card payments, a scam check, grant paperwork, delivery clashes, new restaurant tables.

by Harry Guinness13 Oct 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: Let a Dot connected to my real Google account handle household admin.
Setup: agents used in source: ChatGPT Dots; tools/MCPs stated: Google account.
Steps:
1. Connect your Dot to your actual Google account (the author notes the privacy trade-off).
2. Let it flag issues proactively: bounced card payments, clashing deliveries, documents that miss requirements (a lead-pipe grant).
3. Ask it to check suspicious emails (it correctly said a forwarded email was legitimate).
4. Give it errands: find alternative tables when a booking is cancelled, troubleshoot a broadband login with support.
5. Don’t let it run your inbox unsupervised: it can miss urgent, high-judgment items.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Harry Guinness — https://zapier.com/blog/chatgpt-dots/

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Agents
ChatGPT Dots
Tools
  • Google account

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