What you can ask Instinct to do
Original dated community content and sample prompts, not current product guarantees or executed tests. Statements in original samples describe the proposed workflow.
Everyday errands it handles
- Order groceries and ingredients for a recipe you feel like cooking
- Book a train, a restaurant, a doctor's appointment or a tennis court
- Send flowers or a birthday gift (one reviewer gave it a $25 budget and it picked a book for his editor after reading his writing)
- Dispute a bill, cancel a subscription, chase a refund
- Plan a weekend away, then rearrange the itinerary when tickets change
- Monitor a sold-out page for days and grab tickets when spots open
- Pay tolls, book a DMV appointment, negotiate prices with vendors overnight
- Warn you about a phishing email (a Wired reviewer got exactly that)
The honest failures
It cancels the wrong thing when rushed (one user lost over $200 on a flight), it once booked a restaurant with a $200 cancellation fee without asking, it got a Resy account temporarily locked by trying too hard, and a CAPTCHA can stop it cold. "Nothing punctures the fantasy of autonomous intelligence like being defeated by nine blurry crosswalks," it told The Atlantic's reviewer.
See it working, on this site
Everything in our demo hub was researched, designed and shipped by Instinct from plain-English WhatsApp messages: a morning brief, lunch picks near you, a Friday planned-vs-shipped review, games and more. Each demo page has the exact prompt you can copy into your own Instinct.