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ail-000004@ItsStillKerriganBack in 2023 I was being harassed through the legal system by a landlord (rented a room from him, he switched the room upon move in so I immediately moved out). When I asked r/legaladvice for help they tore me …law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000023@ShitCapitalistsSayYesterday, ChatGPT helped my daughter save over $3,000 on a car purchase (see comment for prompt) A few years ago, my daughter bought her first car. It served her well, but she needs something more reliable. S…money-and-consumer family-and-relationships ChatGPTail-000029@jdogworldSaved me $122.50 uploaded my car repair estimate pdf to chatgpt and it noticed an erroneous charge for diagnostics and i mentioned to the repair shop and they took it off my estimate. chatgpt told me exactly h…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000030@gardeninthesky20Chat GPT saved me $275 in 5 mins My previous landlord tried to charge me a $275 move out cleaning fee. I had ChatGPT draft a letter refuting the charge, while referencing California renter laws. My landlord re…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy ChatGPTail-000031@MonkeyIncidentOf93ChatGPT allowed me to sue my landlord without needing legal representation! Yes, I know what many of your first thoughts will be - that this is risky, not a replacement for a lawyer, etc. But please, hear me o…law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000032@footballforusWe used GPT-4 to fight a landlord. It actually worked. My friend’s landlord is ghosting her after she moved out, refusing to return her ₹35,000 deposit. No lawyer will touch the case since it’s too small. So …money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy GPT-4ail-000034@EstablishmentSea4024ChatGPT Plus costs me $20/month but saved me ~$7,000 on my Canadian PR (CEC) Application—Here’s My Story Full Disclosure : I saw a post on other subreddit on how ChatGPT save money on taxes, so decide to shar…law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000038@HukAleksandraUPDATE: After sending a threatening “legal” letter (wrote by ChatGPT) and forwarding the 2017 email (my ex landlord agreeing to the dog), I have received my deposit back.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy ChatGPTail-000039@1officialdaviChatGPT just helped me turn a gas station damaging my car into a full documented insurance claim 😭 found the companies, contacts, insurer, wrote emails, organized evidence, built the PDF packet & prepped me fo…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000040@duncangledhillI am looking at things I spend my time on more carefully now - what can I automate? Today I found one and it has already saved me £210.72! Let me explain... As a business we sign up to stuff constantly and k…money-and-consumer work Claude Codeail-000041@larrykimI saved $400 at the Toyota dealership by knowing one thing I didn't know five minutes earlier. RAV4 A/C sprang a leak, dealer wanted $1,497 for the condenser. Claude's AI told me $900-1,100 was fair. So I decl…money-and-consumer daily-life Claudeail-000057@badlogicgamesmy mom is using gemini on her android phone to write angry letters to companies/banks who did her wrong by law and they are all giving in, as gemini cites the law and i think this is beautiful.family-and-relationships money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Geminiail-000059@littlesweetDisaClaude loves to play pretend being a Karen.. 🤭🤣🖤 Fable helped me write the best complain ever for a professional baker oven that was defective and I got my money back after 48h 🤣🦾money-and-consumer Claudeail-000060@keeranTried leaning in to the ChatGPT Work thing this week. Gave it permission to interact with CS of a FB scam dropship company and it created an evidence pack that led to a successful chargeback in 40 mins. Had i…money-and-consumer animals-and-nature technology ChatGPTail-000070@ryanshipswellIt is good at that. A few months back I got rear ended my car was totaled. I thought insurance was low balling the value so I got them to send me the valuation report. Put it into ChatGPT, and got and sent back…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy ChatGPTail-000071@tunguzOh wow. I've had a major issue with a state tax return that I've been trying to resolve for almost a year. I tried using a tax lawyer late last year, to no avail. Lots of $$$ down the drain. I figured out that …law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000073@LeighThoma94342Invite some people who are not just tech minded. People utilize AI assistance for more than project development. ChatGPT helped my daughter plan out a system to repay her student loans, my mother utilizes ChatG…family-and-relationships health money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000085@Rest_and_DigestI used ChatGPT to diagnose a serious car problem and it was right about everything. I just thought this was really cool and want to share. I have access to GPT Plus through work so I play around with Deep Rese…money-and-consumer daily-life ChatGPTail-000089@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.comGot a bogus parking ticket while parked legally. Uploaded the citation, municipal code, and photos to Claude to draft an appeal letter. Citation dismissed in 48 hours without having to show up to traffic court.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Claudeail-000113@ReturnFun4925Permanent ban reversed Proof it can be done! And hopefully some useful advice for those in similar situations. I got banned for “selling counterfeit items” after being scammed by a buyer that reported my shoes…law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer work ChatGPTail-000116@WashingupdoneThis last month it has helped me find the fault in my dishwasher, written legal letters in French as well as English, advised me how to sell property including choosing what agent, how to deal with water, elect…daily-life law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer health ChatGPTail-000132@azdcazI just saved hundreds of dollars by fixing my own air conditioner tonight, guided by ChatGPT. I didn’t know shit about air conditioners or condensate pumps going into it. Rather than paying hundreds for a servi…daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000133@Quality_Con_TrollI too used AI to help me fix our homes central AC and heating that had been non functioning for nearly a decade. We were told we'd have to replace the entire gas heater an ancient GE unit from the 60's ~10k, or…daily-life money-and-consumer Unspecified AIail-000134@Bob-the-HumanA few weeks ago ChatGPT helped me diagnose what was wrong with my clothes dryer. I had to partially dismantle it, but it saved me the cost of an expensive service call or having to replace it entirely.daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000166@bored_in_1979Last weekend my lawn mower kept sputtering and shutting off on me. I didn’t have a clue where to start to fix it. Ended up taking a video of it, submitting the video and prompting ChatGPT to diagnose the mower.…daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000175@fast74A lot of people using it for claims but it's been amazing with helping with insurance renewals. It lets me know if anything in the policy has changed, makes callouts on coverage and alerts me to the small print…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000184@mossmillkI use it for DBT therapy purposes. It’s great when you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on therapymental-health money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000189@Ok-Pomegranate-115I know there is a lot of hate around ChatGPT, but I genuinely love it. People act like it is just a toy or a cheating machine, but it has helped me in so many real ways. It has helped me write friendly, strateg…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy work creative-work daily-life ChatGPTail-000192@SidewaysSynapsesI use it for home life and I like it. It has helped me plan our last vacation, work through a health insurance issue, I keep up with daily news, it finds lost things for me like season passes that were buried i…daily-life money-and-consumer Geminiail-000195@SmellySweatsocksFor me. My wife needed a word doc converted to PDF so she found a website SimplePDFConverter would do it for a 1.95 online. Gave the credit card and they took 1.95. She was going over the books a few months lat…money-and-consumer family-and-relationships ChatGPTail-000197@travelnmusicPhysical therapy. I am postpartum with a mess of back and core problems. Going to a PT is not really realistic right now and is expensive. I told it about every single problem I'm dealing with, both related to …health money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000198@SirHomeless_Explained my work situation to ChatGPT about the wage I make and how I feel it is not adequate. Asked how to approach the GM of the company (400 person company, GM used to be my boss’ boss before his big promot…work money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000216@Appropriate_Sort3822Absolutely. I did. Interestingly, when I shared the “technician”’s comments with Gemini the first thing it said was this this sounds like someone trying to upsell! That gives me hope that these models are one w…daily-life money-and-consumer Geminiail-000222@ChemistStrugglingChatGPT is saving my life I am in a pretty desperate financial situation right now and the only way out is finishing my degree. But because of past academic struggles, I had massive knowledge gaps and was comp…education money-and-consumer ChatGPT GPT-4ail-000225@minuette1Yes AI has helped me change careers by reframing my work experience as transferable skills which I hadn’t realised I possessed as I had been in the same job for a long time and couldn’t see the wood for the tre…work daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPT Claude Geminiail-000226@fufulinaChat helped me negotiate a settlement agreement which was three times the original offer in cash. Very helpful to talk it through and explore my negotiating position.law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000227@ThatWasAFunDayAI hasn’t helped me with emotional stuff but it’s been incredibly useful from a practical point of view. It’s saved me lots of money. I’ve set mine up so that it only gives short, straightforward answers along …daily-life technology money-and-consumer Unspecified AIail-000229@thwayunionMeh. I was working on a personal project yesterday to answer some questions I had about how liquidity risk works for money market mutual funds, and to forecast/nowcast liquidity risk and NAV risk for a bunch o…education money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000236@veidrIs anybody else tempted to sign up for this just for personal use? I've found ChatGPT-o1 Preview to be so helpful — which was absolutely not the case for me with any previous models (or Claude 3.5) — that the c…technology money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000241@raducu> I have yet to see a chat agent deployed that is more popular than tailored browsing methods. Not an agent, but I've seen people choose doctors based on asking ChatGpt for criteria and the did make those app…money-and-consumer technology ChatGPTail-000256@BratmonTo provide a competing point of anecdata: A Gemini diagnosis saved me $3,000 in unnecessary repairs on my Civic.daily-life money-and-consumer Geminiail-000260@BlackRabbit1For reviewing schematic/boards I recently developed something for internal tests: 1. A frontier model (either Opensource or closed source) gets a load of text to review a Kicad project systematically 2. The f…technology money-and-consumer Geminiail-000268@monkeydustPractical use-case. I am looking for a way to throw an address at a planning authority (UK) and download the associated documents for that property. Could this or another tool help? e.g. https://publicaccess…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Geminiail-000275@keedaI realized this last year when ChatGPT helped me get $500 in compensation after a delayed flight turned a layover into an impromptu overnight stay in a foreign country. It was even more impressive because the …money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy ChatGPTail-000276@awillenOften with these kinds of things it's not even as much about being specifically accurate as it is about presenting yourself in a way that makes the other party believe that have sufficient understanding of the …law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000299@yodsanklaiGemini helped me a lot for my tax return. It actually did a better job than Deloitte, it found several mistakes in previous returns they filled for me.money-and-consumer daily-life Geminiail-000330@garciasnBefore I just cut them off entirely, I used to tell them my primary concern was cost savings and that I wanted them to recommend ways I could cut 25% off my bill every month and watch the glorified salespeople …money-and-consumer Claudeail-000336@enraged_camelI'm using AI for most things. It has been an incredible improvement to both my quality of life and my wallet. Some of the most high profile items from just the past three months: * I'm getting my roof replaced…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000358@alvicryptzClaude helped me get my money back. Paid for an online service 2 months ago, it worked for one day. Spent weeks asking support for help, nothing. Asked for a 50% refund, they kept stalling. So I used Claude to …money-and-consumer Claudeail-000359@jasontsilvaChatGPT saved me $600 on my car insurance this year, and I ended up with more coverage than I had before. I had it pull my insurance policies last year from Gmail, compare the inclusions against other providers…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000360@nlevnautWorks for insurance too. Claude saved me a few thousand earlier this year from some stupid nonsense. I barely remember what it was about honestly, but I do remember that mentioning the relevant regulatory agenc…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Claudeail-000361@DeveloperHarrisClaude saved me from losing a $900 deposit.money-and-consumer Claudeail-000362@MarksGonePublicI got charged $350 for an online service I was not using. I emailed complaining and they responded they don’t give back refunds. I told ChatGPT to write a response professionally with very strong wording. The r…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000363@Alicia_Bittle_I have a $14,000 medical bill and insurance gave me a $1,000 copay. I uploaded the itemized bill to Grok. Reduced my bill by 50-60%. I now have negotiating power. Grok even provided links to prove that I was be…money-and-consumer health Grokail-000364@dallastsladavid2 hours into Grok bot and it’s already saved me 13K. My finance bot “Warren” found a medical bill that got sent to a collection agency tied to a surgery I had a year ago that I didn’t even know about. He found …money-and-consumer health Grokail-000365@DeroidzThanks to ChatGPT, I’ve got $15K back from someone who owed me the money but refused to pay. He found a few email addresses, did some research on how to resolve the issue, and wrote a few articulate emails. In …money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000366@radicalizedcassVerizon sent me to collections for something I have plenty of evidence to support against but I couldn’t get through customer service. Grok Bot resolved it in 30 minutes with my receipts.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Grokail-000367@bibekghGrok Bot got a $200 refund for my mortgage because of a late fee it negotiated. It also booked activities for my kids, organized my calendar, and curated jobs I should be applying to.money-and-consumer family-and-relationships Grokail-000368@nikunjyadav89Grok saved me $800 dollars yearly in subscriptions that I was not using.money-and-consumer Grokail-000369@French_JimI gave grok bot access to my health insurance claims to find 2 claims that were not resubmitted properly and then write the insurance company to resubmit. It will handle the response when they write back.money-and-consumer health Grokail-000370@paulctanMy wife had Grok do her leasing (commercial). This is what she said: Normally I would hire an environmental consultant, read their report, argue with them, get a lawyer involved to argue the points of the tenan…law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer Grokail-000371@o_b_z_d_nGrok helped me fix my AC and I have no HVAC experience. Turned a $500 repair into an $8 repair.daily-life money-and-consumer Grokail-000375@SamGuichelaarAfter I took my HP printer in checked luggage it had countless error codes which I spent 3 days trying to solve. ChatGPT helped me fix them in 1.5 hours. Saved me €300.daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000379@unwoketradwifeGrok helped my husband find replacement rubber seals for his UTV that the dealer sold for like $75 a piece. The non branded ones it found only cost $8.99 and they fit perfectly. We had been to every store in to…money-and-consumer family-and-relationships Grokail-000404@Paul_Lacey_SnrI have now started to use Grok and other AI far more, including how to treat myself to overcome a bad accident and it’s working. I’m also now using it to process vast amounts of info to deal with things from ta…health money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Grokail-000405@Oddland66Grok literally helped me win back a big chunk of my money from State Farm after 2+ years of fighting. My home was hit by a drunk driver, red-tagged, and uninhabitable for 19 months. They cut off ALE early, shor…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy Grokail-000406@marusalujanGrok helped me win a full refund for a package holiday against a major online travel agency.money-and-consumer Grokail-000407@soarathenaGrok also helped me get a higher refund with my taxes. Best investment I’ve ever made.money-and-consumer Grokail-000408@benbstwitsI used ChatGPT to write a letter after I was denied over the phone by ETrade for a $150 bonus. They deposited the $150 into my account.money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000409@JToe2017They declined my tax return correction request. I consulted ChatGPT and it wrote me a proper objection letter. Then they accepted it.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy ChatGPTail-000410@Openbaar_ToiletMy previous landlord is trying to keep my entire deposit (1550 euro damage deposit and 1550 guarantee). I didn’t break anything and always paid rent on time. ChatGPT wrote me a letter to send to him.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy ChatGPTail-000417@concrete_foundGrok helped me fix my Nissan Maxima I just sold. The fuel injectors went bad and I had to replace that with the coils. Would have taken it to the shop if it wasn’t for AI.daily-life money-and-consumer Grokail-000419@JackieNCagentGemini saved me like $100k, Claude got me a new engine for free and Grok helped me pass my insurance exam first try.money-and-consumer work Gemini Claude Grokail-000429@owendesignGrok Bot paid for itself this month. I saw a charge in my AMEX for an app I don’t use. I asked Grok Bot to review, get the app canceled and get me a refund. It found the app, logged me in, successfully canceled…money-and-consumer Grokail-000430@themfgfellowHad surgery in Feb, total bill was about $200k. Insurance paid 97% or so and I was going to pay my portion to UC Health. Just out of curiosity I gave the bills and the MyCigna statements to Claude. It found a n…money-and-consumer health Claudeail-000432@mhp_guyYesterday I paid $750 to get my dog to throw up. I walked into that ER vet clinic armed with Claude. “My dog ingested 704mg of theobromine in brownie form. He needs a shot of apomorphine and then some activated…animals-and-nature money-and-consumer Claudeail-000434@AgnieszkaBurkatGrok diagnosed my cat’s illness correctly twice. I even uploaded the X-ray after the vet visit and the opinion was the same. Also helped me with the taxes.animals-and-nature money-and-consumer Grokail-000451@AmritKarki17Thank you, Grok, for making such a meaningful difference in my life. You helped me save hundreds of thousands of dollars on my project, and you also helped me make hundreds of thousands of dollars through stock…money-and-consumer work Grokail-000455@heresyfinancialI’ve never been blown away by any AI tool until today with Grok 3. Legal questions about securities laws, code for trading strategy backtesting, integrating third-party software. In a few hours I’ve gotten what…money-and-consumer work Grokail-000469@ultramaga100Grok solved my backyard flooding issue and saved me thousands of dollars. Like $9,000.daily-life money-and-consumer Grokail-000470@investholistGrok Bot just solved my #1 headache (Facturas) in 3 minutes. Thanks Grok.money-and-consumer work Grokail-000477@juliensalinasWow this is powerful. Grok is able to accurately give me the last closing price of a stock option, and correctly explain the reason for this price. Grok will be my exclusive personal assistant from now on.money-and-consumer Grokail-000480@IvanaDGrecoClaude is amazing at assisting. Upload credit card and bank statements to identify places to cut spending. Find lost vacuum parts. Read emails and make a list of stuff needed for extracurriculars plus create an…family-and-relationships money-and-consumer daily-life Claudeail-000481@RoundtableSpaceThis guy used DeepSeek V4 Flash to summarize and visualize the top 1,000 research papers of the last year. What did it cost him? Only $4. DeepSeek is incredible.education money-and-consumer DeepSeekail-000502@homieg33Just yesterday I fixed a broken wireless N64 controller receiver with the help of ChatGPT. I tried looking for YouTube videos, but didn’t find the exact thing I needed, and since I’m such a newbie I needed a lo…daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000503@burntoI had received four very different bids for a home repair project. Just wildly different itemization breakdowns, costs, timelines, scopes, even formats. Opus helped me turn it into an apples-apples comparison, …money-and-consumer daily-life Claudeail-000505@atonseI have a similar claude story (much less money though), with the IRS R&D tax credit. The auditing firm initially said we qualify for $0. But then I had claude analyze past R&D reports and our expenses and it fo…law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer Claudeail-000518@CodeVibrTldr: ChatGPT is more than capable, but a larger context windows is definitely an advantage. My vote is for ChatGPT. I recently used it to win a disability appeal. The previous year I tried by myself and spe…accessibility law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000521@Aggressive-King-4170- Deep Research mode helped me figure out and repair a pool salt cell panel setting issue that a pool contractor couldn't diagnose after 2 visits. Saved me hundreds of dollars and endless frustration. - Had a …technology daily-life money-and-consumer ChatGPT Deep Researchail-000522@peacefulpaceI used ChatGPT to review my finances and tax documents from the previous year. It noticed that I had been overtaxed and guided me through the HMRC claim process, which helped me successfully secure an £800 reba…money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy family-and-relationships ChatGPTail-000531@space_monsterI used it (and Gemini) to win a legal battle with my strata committee, which saved me about $40k in maintenance costs that they were improperly trying to push onto lot owners. I fed in the strata bylaws, the …law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer community ChatGPT Geminiail-000532@Successfully-sexy_89I have a 2012 mini cooper. My mechanic said a I had to do a $3,000 fix to my car for a starting issue. I uploaded the repair estimate and fault codes to ChatGPT, and it told me the mechanic's diagnosis didn't a…daily-life technology money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000533@Main_Grand_9231Same, it's been the best thing that's ever happened to me as far as getting my act together in life. I started seriously using it when I left my ex-husband. It helped me apply for and receive 5 months of nonp…work money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy family-and-relationships Unspecified AIail-000538@1PandoraChat diagnosed what was wrong with my freezer. And Chat was right. It analyzed the clicking noise and cooling failure and identified a failed start relay/compressor issue before the appliance tech arrived, savi…daily-life technology money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000546@ObjectiveExpression3Using Gemini to Help with Insurance Claims I had an interesting experience using Gemini for a travel insurance claim. To sum up the issue, I planned a river cruise in Europe and suffered an unexpected medical …law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer Geminiail-000551@Argona0xI have $8,400 of credit card debt so I created a Grok bot and told it this is your problem now. Day 6 the debt is $7,912 and I haven’t done anything except watch. It found $67/month in forgotten subscriptions a…money-and-consumer Grokail-000552@fernI saved $1,400 on a medical bill because of ChatGPT. Prompt: “Knowing what you know about insurance rules, how can I get this bill lower.” It spit out the note that I copy-pasted to my doctor and voila.health money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000553@devaiahPBCar service time. Estimate came in at 40k. I’m clueless about cars. This time I decided to let GPT guide me with the negotiation. Uploaded the estimate. Had the notes in front of me while I was on the call. New…money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000554@pitdesiI’ve been using Instinct. It helped decrease my Comcast bill from $100/month to $60/month. It hit a wall on this one but gave me a number to call and an exact script. The call took three minutes. It canceled al…money-and-consumer daily-life ChatGPTail-000555@MarioNawfalA grieving family used Claude to dispute a $195,000 hospital bill for their relative’s final 4 hours of care after a heart attack. The chatbot analyzed billing codes and found the hospital charged for both mast…health money-and-consumer Claudeail-000556@AthlawashereI hate filling out forms. Spent six months procrastinating on my tax return. Then I gave ChatGPT the task, and it claimed back my medical expenses in 5 min.money-and-consumer health ChatGPTail-000589@PrimaryMagicianI used Claude to catch my bank overcharging my home loan EMI, using their own numbers against them Okay this turned into a longer post than I meant it to be, but I’ve been sitting on this for a few days and I n…money-and-consumer Claudeail-000596@namanyaygI have a similar story with my washing machine repair. I went through 2 service technicians not being able to diagnose it. Gpt did it and I told the 3rd what to do and it worked.daily-life technology money-and-consumer ChatGPTail-000605@_Clit-Commander_You probably joke but Claude saved my life by recommending I file for bankruptcy after telling it all my issues. It worked and now I’m in a good career and I have no more debt.money-and-consumer law-and-bureaucracy work Claudeail-000606@cabbagesweetnerConsumer rights advocate. Honestly, it's been a game changer for me when dealing with dodgy companies and their questionable terms. I've used it to confirm my consumer rights and draft emails whilst continuing …law-and-bureaucracy money-and-consumer Geminiail-000607@razadersMy Dad has been unable to work due to cancer, and had debts spiralling as he was previously self employed. When speaking to Gemini it flagged there are UK charities that would be able to help him reduce payment…family-and-relationships health money-and-consumer Geminiail-000608@SophonParticleI have a heat pump system installed in my house. It can be powered by electricity or gas. You set the outside temp at which the system switches from electric power to gas and vice versa. I gave Gemini the mod…daily-life money-and-consumer technology Geminiail-000620@Cezar_furdokostolojaHelped me finding my next PC. I looked for builds and scrolled through offers that fitted my budget, so I had Claude analyzing and comparing them. Then it went to a "dude, I'll get you the right one" chat. As a…money-and-consumer daily-life technology Claude