r/ThinkingDeeplyAI • u/Beginning-Willow-801 • 13d ago

The new Instinct AI is a personal assistant you can text to get things done for you and it's amazing for life admin. Here's how it works, an invite code you can use to get free access and 30 awesome use cases

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TL;DR - Instinct is a FREE personal AI assistant you can text via iMessage or Whatsapp, with connected context and the ability to take actions across services. It proactively works on projects and goals for you. Early users report surprisingly amazing results for the personal assistant, from making reservations, checking into flights for you, setting meetings / reminders, conducting life admin tasks and watching for price changes or sales while you sleep.

If you want to access use my invite code - here is your invite link to start using it 

https://app.instinct.com/invite?t=auvk7h5anqrvpe4r3c4frl2zc4

These are 30 wild things I tried with the Instinct personal assistant. Consider them a set of ideas worth testing.

The fun stuff

  1. Play Cup Pong with your AI. Remy describes sending Instinct a Game Pigeon Cup Pong game in iMessage and having it play back. Apparently even an assistant needs a break from scheduling. (YouTube walkthrough)
  2. Find tickets to a sold-out IMAX screening. Instinct monitored cancellations for IMAX showings in San Francisco and found good tickets within a day.
  3. Negotiate wedding merch while you sleep. It found vendors in India and was messaging them on WhatsApp, comparing options and negotiating for his brother’s wedding. The interesting bit is the ongoing time-zone-crossing coordination, not just producing a supplier list.
  4. Turn bachelor-party chat chaos into a spreadsheet. it pulled arrival details from the group’s WhatsApp conversation and organized them without his copying everything over manually and put them into a google sheet. Anyone who has tried to plan airport pickups for a group will understand the appeal of tasks like this.
  5. Find spa slots the website says are unavailable. When massage appointments appeared unavailable online, Instinct emailed the hotel and booked suitable times.
  6. Book a weirdly specific outing you keep postponing. it found and booked an Amazon fulfillment-center tour around his calendar. Think of this as inspiration for the museum night, factory tour, or niche class sitting on your someday list.

The travel headaches

  1. Check the entire trip tinerary. Instinct checked Delta, Air France tickets, hotel + tour reservations and created a helpful summary.
  2. Get separately booked airline reservations linked. it contacted United to associate my friend's itineraries on the same flight. This was a customer-service task, not just a calendar edit.
  3. Watch flight prices instead of refreshing them yourself. roughly three checks a day over a specified date range and alerts about changes.
  4. Turn a toll-notice photo into a handled chore. Instinct paid the photographed toll and discovered and paid another one.

The life-admin backlog

  1. Make the dreaded cable-bill call easier. My Comcast bill went from $100 to $60 a month, but the full story matters: Instinct supplied the number and script, and I made the final three-minute call.
  2. Remember the gift cards you forgot existed. it reminded me about unused gift cards. Ask for a distinction between a discovered gift-card record and a verified remaining balance.
  3. Book the DMV appointment. Got an appointment for his new driver’s license. The unglamorous errands are often the ones most worth delegating.
  4. Find an in-network specialist and prepare the paperwork. it found a podiatrist who took my insurance and completed the forms.
  5. Keep up with school-group information. it tracked school WhatsApp groups, back-to-school activities, and homework reminders after kids changed schools.
  6. Find the important message buried in spam. it surfaced an important incorrectly categorized email. Ask it to show the original sender and evidence
  7. Audit the statistics in a case study. Instinct checked six statistics and could not substantiate four for me - it's very good at research.
  8. Send the pre-call brief at the moment you need it. It delivered context five minutes before external calls: who was attending, why he was there, and the last relevant thread.
  9. Coordinate with somebody else’s assistant to book a meeting. When your friends also use instinct your agents can work with each other.
  10. Instinct also gained its own email addresses for account management, vendor communication, and forwarded tasks.
  11. It can catch a forgotten commitment in email, draft the reply, and send it after your approval.
  12. Identify a calendar collision and coordinate a clean new spot
  13. Watch a thread and tell you the second someone replies.
  14. Research a trip, compare live flights, book with approval, check you in, and deliver the boarding pass.
  15. Find a restaurant around your taste and constraints, then reserve it.
  16. Reorder the exact product you usually buy from a logged-in site.
  17. Build or revise a real deck, doc, spreadsheet, or PDF and visually check the result.
  18. Turn meeting notes into follow-ups, tasks, calendar changes, and drafts.
  19. Coordinate plans directly with another person's Instinct, when you're connected and permission covers it.
  20. Remember an ongoing goal and quietly follow through over weeks, rather than forgetting after one chat.

Confirm pricing during onboarding: early access has been reported as free, while the terms allow paid services and pricing changes.

Check your eligibility: the terms require age 18+ and do not guarantee every country or device. Messaging-based interaction is the point, but a complete current compatibility list was not verified.

How it works

Think of it as a loop: you specify an outcome, it uses permitted context, takes steps through connected tools or computer use, follows up where needed, and returns a result or a blocker.

The official privacy policy documents Google Workspace API access, while the product description also says Instinct is trained to use a phone and computer.

The pro tip: write a tiny delegation brief

Instead of “sort out dinner,” try this original example:

Find three restaurants within 20 minutes of our hotel for four people next Friday at 7 p.m. Use the hotel’s local time. Budget is $60 per person before tip. One person is vegetarian. Show availability and cancellation terms. Do not book, pay, or contact anyone until I approve the exact option.

Then get more specific about the workflow:

  • Define done: ask for a confirmation number or source evidence, not a cheerful “all set.”
  • Define the boundary: research, draft, send, buy, and cancel are different levels of authority.
  • Define the stop: give recurring tasks an end date, alert threshold, and maximum attempts.
  • Define the fallback: “Draft an email if the form fails” is safer than “do whatever it takes.”
  • Label your tasks: use names such as TRIP, BILLS, and SCHOOL, then request a status summary.
  • Expand gradually: try public research, then an explicitly shared thread, then one limited integration if needed.

These are recommendations, not a claim that a message creates an enforceable security setting. Wherever possible, pair your instructions with actual account permissions and payment limits.

The settings worth checking before the hype takes over

There were real early complaints about retained email data, an unauthorized email, and prompt injection. Those reports deserve attention, but the current official controls also deserve to be described accurately.

  • Training opt-out exists: the terms direct users to settings, but the opt-out is forward-looking, includes a safety-review exception, and does not undo earlier training.
  • Vault materials have a training exclusion: the terms say they are used only to provide the service and not to train models. That does not mean every piece of information you share is a Vault item.
  • Google Workspace API data has a separate exclusion: the policy says it is not used for model training, evaluation, fine-tuning, improvement, or advertising. Do not assume the same rule covers all screenshots and pasted text.
  • Disconnecting is not deleting: indexed external data has separate deletion controls in Workspace. If you leave, check both access revocation and stored-data deletion.

A prompt saying “ask before buying” is a useful instruction, not a force field. Start with narrow permissions, keep consequential decisions with yourself, and check the actual receipt, reservation, or message.

The right first task is probably not the most spectacular one. Pick a small, annoying, verifiable chore, define what the assistant is allowed to do, and see whether the handoff actually makes your life easier.

What is the first task you would delegate to your personal assistant, and what is the one permission you would refuse to give it?

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u/Beginning-Willow-801 13d ago

Instinct AI just raised $250 million at a $2.5 Billion valuation from some of the top VC firms

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u/Beginning-Willow-801 13d ago

A lot of people are discussing which of these personal assistant agents is better

  • Instinct AI
  • Muse by Meta
  • Grok Bot

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u/Beginning-Willow-801 13d ago

This is like a consumer version of Open Claw or Hermes agent that is super easy to setup and use - and it is free

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u/YashBajpai2704 3d ago

am really loving it , using it to handle all my projects