I Let AI Work for Me for 6 Weeks. Here’s What Actually Worked
Chris Koerner shares what happened when he spent 6 weeks letting AI agents like Muse, Grockbot and Instinct buy, sell, negotiate and build for him. He lays out six businesses you could start with them this week.
The gist
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Koerner had Muse contact 82 Dallas pool builders overnight and got eight quotes in 24 hours, ranging from $120,000 to $240,000 for one pool.
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He uses Muse to sell on Facebook Marketplace, dropping prices 10% on any day with three or fewer inquiries. It also found a $1,200 spray foam quote versus $12,000.
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An $11 crane rental site in Laredo, built by an agent, brought leads worth $3,000, $23,000 and $9,000, which he passes free to a local operator.
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For AI consulting clients, his agent filters Google Maps for businesses with 4+ stars, 50+ reviews and no booking link, then he pitches audits by Loom video.
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Koerner had Instinct act as a go-between, passing Claude's prompts to Replit, to secure his free church waiver app while he just watched.
Chris Koerner recommends it
"Here's why Muse is my new favorite... Muse you want to use for anything that touches Meta, any Meta product, Facebook Marketplace, Instagram, Facebook groups, Meta Ads, it's extra seamless if it's a Meta product, extra frictionless. And then most Google products it's very frie..."
▶ Play at 10:0011 creators recommend it, including Peter Yang, Claire Vo, and Kevin Rose.
See all on the Muse page
Chris Koerner uses it
"Where are all the best deals and all the best subcontractors? Facebook Marketplace, right? Not on Thumbtack, Angie's List. Those are expensive ones, guys... I want to hire the guy that you're going to hire. You want to find that guy? He's going to be on Facebook Marketplace."
▶ Play at 14:169 creators recommend it, including Braden Harman, Brendan Schaub, and Ed Bolian.
See all on the Facebook Marketplace page
Chris Koerner recommends it
"You get a Loom account for free. Videos up to five minutes are free. And you don't need to be longer than five minutes... Open the audit on the Loom video. You got your big, bright, beautiful face in the bottom left corner. Talk through it for 3 to 7 minutes."
▶ Play at 34:1912 creators recommend it, including Ali Abdaal, Codie Sanchez, and Corey Ganim.
See all on the Loom page
Chris Koerner uses it
"Instinct is interesting because there's no app. It's all done through iMessage or WhatsApp. You just text it... The limiter is that it's one big long forever chat... So, I use it the least of the three, but it did the single coolest thing in this whole video."
▶ Play at 41:1916 creators recommend it, including Harry Stebbings, Kevin Rose, and Sheel Mohnot.
See all on the Instinct page
Chris Koerner uses it
"Remember, I'm not technical, but Claude is. I screenshotted all of the support emails, gave them to Claude, and said, 'How do I make this app secure?' This was in the same chat that had been helping me prompt Replit to build this app."
▶ Play at 42:46216 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Peter Yang, and This Week in Startups.
See all on the Claude page
Chris Koerner recommends it
"You don't know how to build code? No problem. Get a Replit account. Connect Muse to Replit and say... 'Log into my Replit and go build it for me and then test it and debug it.' That's the thing. I'm doing that every day. I'm building tools every day."
▶ Play at 8:4411 creators recommend it, including Jason Lemkin, 20VC with Harry Stebbings, and Brandon Doyle.
See all on the Replit pageWhat they recommend · 10 picks
AI tools
4 picks · Chris Koerner ·Chris's AI tools →
"Here's why Muse is my new favorite... Muse you want to use for anything that touches Meta, any Meta product, Facebook Marketplace, Instagram, Facebook groups, Meta Ads, it's ext..."
"Instinct is interesting because there's no app. It's all done through iMessage or WhatsApp. You just text it... The limiter is that it's one big long forever chat... So, I use i..."
"Here's a prompt that you should steal. Go to whatever AI you use the most... and say tell me everything you think you know about me. I'm going to give your output to a different..."
Software & apps
4 picks · Chris Koerner ·Chris's software & apps →
"You don't know how to build code? No problem. Get a Replit account. Connect Muse to Replit and say... 'Log into my Replit and go build it for me and then test it and debug it.' ..."
"Where are all the best deals and all the best subcontractors? Facebook Marketplace, right? Not on Thumbtack, Angie's List. Those are expensive ones, guys... I want to hire the g..."
"Go to Google Trends, type in plumbing, roofing, HVAC, electrical, and then compare those Google Trends lines with something like spray foam installation, spray foam repair, show..."
Other picks
2 picks · Chris Koerner
"You get a Loom account for free. Videos up to five minutes are free. And you don't need to be longer than five minutes... Open the audit on the Loom video. You got your big, bri..."
"If you really trust the agent, which I think you should, give it a card. I use Mercury. And in Mercury, you can spin up an agentic credit card with limits on it in one click."
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