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.
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, models and tools only what the source states
- Agents
- ChatGPT Dots
- Tools
- Google account
Sources & credit
- Harry Guinness Zapier blog primaryblog · 13 Oct 2026https://zapier.com/blog/chatgpt-dots/