What can a personal AI agent do for a small business?

Each of these is a recipe with a ready prompt and approval rules:

Support inbox triage and reply drafts: Every two hours the agent labels new support email, looks up the order, and drafts a reply in your voice for you to approve.
Weekly FAQ mining from support email: Once a week the agent groups the questions customers asked, finds the top repeats and drafts FAQ entries and macro replies.
Review monitoring and response drafts: The agent watches new reviews on Google, Etsy, Amazon or Trustpilot and drafts a response to each one, with low ratings put first.

Prospect research briefs: Give the agent a list of companies and it returns a one-page brief per prospect: what they do, recent news, likely pain and a suggested opener.
Inbound lead qualification: New form fills and inquiry emails get enriched, scored and routed to you with a draft reply within minutes.
Follow-up and stale-deal tracker: Each morning the agent finds conversations where you owe a reply or the other side went quiet, and drafts the nudge.

Low-stock and reorder report: A daily report of the SKUs that will run out before your supplier can restock, with draft reorder emails.
Late and stuck order watch: Catches unshipped orders past your handling time and shipments stuck in transit, before the customer emails you.
Listing title and tag refresh (Etsy, Shopify, Amazon): The agent finds your listings with views but no sales, researches the search terms and drafts better titles, tags and first lines.
Gumroad and Etsy digital shop manager: A daily check of new sales, buyer messages, refund requests and listing health for a digital-download shop, ending in a short to-do list.

Receipts and card matching: Matches card and bank transactions to receipts from your inbox, files them and lists what's missing before month end.
Unpaid invoice chaser: Lists overdue invoices by age and drafts polite, escalating reminders, so you don't have to write awkward emails.
Subscription and SaaS spend audit: Finds every recurring charge, flags unused or duplicate tools and drafts the cancel list.
Month-end P&L snapshot: On the 2nd of each month the agent builds a one-page profit and loss from your exports, with month-over-month notes.

Content calendar from what's working: Every Friday the agent reviews last week's posts, finds what worked, and drafts next week's calendar for you to approve.
Repurpose one long piece into ten: Turns a blog post, video transcript or podcast into short posts, an email and quote cards, all in your voice.
SEO content briefs from real search results: For a target keyword the agent studies the top results and writes a brief: the questions to answer, the angle and internal links.

Competitor change watch: A weekly digest of what competitors changed: prices, new products, landing-page messaging and promotions.
Supplier and market price tracker: Tracks the prices of the things you buy or resell and alerts you when a price crosses your buy or sell threshold.
Industry news digest that skips the noise: A short morning brief on your niche: only items that could change a decision, each with a source and a 'why it matters' line.

Reseller deal scout with max-buy math: Scans saved searches for underpriced items, checks sold comps and only alerts on deals that clear your profit target.
Cross-listing prep from photos: From item photos and a few notes, the agent drafts titles, descriptions, item specifics and prices for eBay, Mercari, Poshmark and FB Marketplace.
Flip profit and inventory log: Keeps your inventory and profit log current from sales emails, and tells you weekly what's sitting too long.

Meeting prep and follow-up notes: Before each external meeting the agent writes a one-page brief. After it, the agent turns your notes into action items and a draft recap.
Weekly owner briefing (chief of staff): One Monday report across sales, cash, operations and open approvals, so you run the business from a single page.
Applicant screening summaries: Summarizes each applicant against your must-haves and drafts next-step emails, while you make every decision.
Vendor quote comparison: Collects quotes from vendor sites and emails into one comparison table, normalized to the same quantity and terms.