# Autopilot Business

> Real tasks small businesses are automating with AI agents. Steal the setup. A directory of 326 real tasks small businesses automate with AI agents. Each card lists the business type, task, reported result, tools, setup steps, original source link, and a specifics rating (high/med/low). Updated about 3× daily.

## Data

- [All cards as JSON](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/cards.json): public, no key needed
- [Full text of every card](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/llms-full.txt)
- [API docs](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/api/)
- [Search](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/browse/?q=): append a query, e.g. ?q=invoices

## Categories

- [Customer Support & Inbox](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/customer-support-inbox/): 75 use cases
- [Lead Follow-up & Sales](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/lead-follow-up-sales/): 36 use cases
- [Invoicing/Collections/Cash Flow](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/invoicing-collections-cash-flow/): 54 use cases
- [Scheduling & Appointments](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/scheduling-appointments/): 39 use cases
- [Marketing & Content](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/marketing-content/): 32 use cases
- [Admin & Back-Office](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/admin-back-office/): 31 use cases
- [Reviews & Reputation](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/reviews-reputation/): 24 use cases
- [Operations & Inventory](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/category/operations-inventory/): 35 use cases

## Most specific results

- [Online store FAQ chatbot handles ~80% of support](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/online-store-faq-chatbot-handles-80-of-support/): Solo/small online store. "Support tickets dropped ~75%"; response time "from 4-6 hours to instant"; owner was spending 2-3 hours/day before; cost "~$15-30/month" API + "~$5/month" hosting
- [Yoga studio AI auto-replies to Google/Facebook reviews in owner's voice](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/yoga-studio-ai-auto-replies-to-googlefacebook-reviews-in-owners-voice/): New yoga/wellness studio (Green Light Sanctuary), owner-run. "20+ Hours saved every week"; "40%+ Reduction in manual admin workload"; "0 Admin staff needed at launch"
- [Real estate team turns WhatsApp messages and voice notes into CRM updates](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/real-estate-team-turns-whatsapp-messages-and-voice-notes-into-crm-upda/): Lean real estate team (The Srama Group), client of System AI. Task time cut "from four to five minutes down to about 10 to 20 seconds"; "about a day saved every week"; onboarding-to-sale time went from 62 to 44 days
- [After-hours AI receptionist books 250 jobs for a home-services company](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/after-hours-ai-receptionist-books-250-jobs-for-a-home-services-company/): Home-services company (agency client). 1,226 inbound calls answered live over ~10 weeks; 250 booked on the spot (~11%), 125 callbacks queued, 69 transferred; 100 synced into CRM with real job numbers; 275 calls had no trackable outcome
- [Claude maps 14 clients' charts of accounts for monthly close](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/claude-maps-14-clients-charts-of-accounts-for-monthly-close/): Accounting firm in India closing books for 14 QuickBooks clients. "The monthly close per client dropped from 2 days to 20 minutes"; "zero misclassified statements"; "onboarded 4 clients without hiring anyone"
- [Cafe owner's custom GPT turns inventory-sheet photos into vendor shopping lists](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/cafe-owners-custom-gpt-turns-inventory-sheet-photos-into-vendor-shoppi/): Small coffee shop/cafe (owner, Cole Morgan) buying from 3+ stores. Replaces manual list-making that took "2-10 minutes" per order; off-the-shelf OCR quoted "$250+/month" avoided
- [Zapier + GPT cuts a 4-person real estate team's lead response to under 3 minutes](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/zapier-gpt-cuts-a-4-person-real-estate-teams-lead-response-to-under-3/): Four-person real estate team (automation builder's client). First response time fell from 14 hours to under three minutes (as reported in post)
- [Slack bot drafts overdue-invoice reminders and recovers $2.5k](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/slack-bot-drafts-overdue-invoice-reminders-and-recovers-25k/): Solo founder/small agency using QuickBooks or Wave. Recovered just over $2.5k from invoices the founder had mentally written off (per post title "got $2.5k back")
- [Consultant's Zapier + ChatGPT proposal generator: 45 minutes to 5](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/consultants-zapier-chatgpt-proposal-generator-45-minutes-to-5/): Solo consultant (client of freelance automator Hazel Quimpo) spending 15 hrs/week on repetitive tasks. Proposal "Five-minute task instead of 45"; onboarding "Twenty minutes becomes five"; briefs "Forty minutes becomes fifteen"; "5-10 hours back every week"
- [Small team runs support for 55+ Shopify stores with GPT email automation](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/small-team-runs-support-for-55-shopify-stores-with-gpt-email-automatio/): Shopify merchant operating 55+ storefronts with a small support team. "42,940+ Emails Processed"; avg response "<2 min" down from "12–24 hours"; "75–85% Fully Automated"; financial decisions routed to a human
- [Solo e-commerce founder auto-resolves 61 of 63 daily messages](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/solo-e-commerce-founder-auto-resolves-61-of-63-daily-messages/): Solo e-commerce store (founder later productized the tool, so partly self-promotional). Baseline "~63 messages/day", "~3.5 hours/day spent just replying"; on one day "61 resolved instantly", "2 flagged for founder review", "4h 12m" saved
- [Claude parses Hinglish WhatsApp orders for a family shop, replacing a data-entry salary](https://autopilotbusiness.ai/use-case/claude-parses-hinglish-whatsapp-orders-for-a-family-shop-replacing-a-d/): Small family grocery/supplies business in India, 40+ WhatsApp orders/day. "what used to take 3 hours now happens in 3 seconds"; saves ₹12,500/month (₹1,50,000/year) salary, redeployed to hire a delivery person

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