Lindy’s Meeting Prep routine sends a briefing before each meeting, or as a daily digest, with the attendees, their job titles and companies, and summaries of earlier meetings, by email or text.
Anthropic’s Cowork docs describe Dispatch, a background agent in Claude Desktop that splits one request into child tasks, runs each as its own session and forwards permission prompts to you, even from your phone.
Meta’s Muse runs in its own secure cloud VM, takes requests in WhatsApp or the Muse app, and asks before sending email or buying; a separate Sentinel agent must approve anything it sends to the internet.
Microsoft announced Scout at Build 2026: an always-on personal work agent for Frontier customers, built on the open-source OpenClaw and on Work IQ, that handles meeting prep, scheduling conflicts and routine tasks.
AP2 is an open protocol from Google for payments made by agents: the user signs an intent mandate and a cart mandate, giving merchants and payment providers an audit trail of what the user approved.
Meetily records calls, transcribes them on the device with Whisper or Parakeet, and writes summaries with a local Ollama model or a cloud model you pick.
Google's AI Mode can check several reservation sites for tables that fit party size, time and cuisine, then send you to the booking page to finish yourself.
Claude in Chrome can read and compare what is open in your tabs and pull details into a table; Anthropic’s own red-team numbers explain why it asks before purchases and why you should finish checkout.
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout lets you ask ChatGPT a shopping question, pick an item and confirm the order in chat; the open Agentic Commerce Protocol passes the order to the merchant.
The open-source Google Workspace MCP server exposes Calendar, Gmail and other Workspace tools to Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP clients, using your own OAuth client and optional read-only mode.
Inbox Zero works in the background on Gmail or Outlook: you write rules in plain English, and it files mail, drafts replies in your style, unsubscribes in bulk and briefs you before meetings.
Perplexity pitches Comet for jobs like finding the same item with faster shipping. Brave showed a hidden comment could hijack it, and Simon Willison advises stopping agents at checkout.
Raj Chettri runs Nous Research's Hermes Agent on his desktop for scheduled research summaries, note filing, quick scripts and his blog's writing pipeline.
Federico Viticci ran OpenClaw (then called Clawdbot) on an M4 Mac mini with Claude Opus 4.5 over Telegram for briefings, smart-home control and small automations.