Custom agent use cases: 9 real examples
Custom-built, lesser-known or unnamed agents. Here is what people have got it to do.
9 use cases · Most often: science · business · finance · Updated Oct 16, 2026
All 9 Custom agent use cases
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Run biomedical analyses with a 150-tool agent
Stanford researchers built Biomni, an agent that runs biomedical analyses with 150 tools; the authors report it nears human level on tasks like searching databases and planning gene cloning.
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Let an AI agent run a small office shop
Anthropic and Andon Labs let Claude run an office snack shop for a month; Anthropic says it found suppliers but sold items below cost and invented a payment account.
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Run a 12-hour AI scientist on your research data
Edison Scientific's Kosmos reads about 1,500 papers per run; independent scientists judged 79.4% of its report statements accurate, and it highlights seven discoveries.
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Answer legal questions with checked sources and citations
Researchers built L-MARS, a team of agents that searches the web and case law, then checks its evidence; they report more accurate legal answers than leading chatbots.
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Let AI models trade crypto with $10k each
Nof1's Alpha Arena gave six AI models $10,000 each to trade crypto on Hyperliquid with no human help; GNcrypto reports only Qwen 3 Max and DeepSeek finished in profit.
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Spot hidden costs in your health insurance policy
A developer built Insurance Samjho, where a Gemma model reads health insurance policies and flags risks in English or Hindi; he reports 13 findings, four high-risk, on one sample.
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Check your books against your bank and email
A business owner with several companies built an agent that checks the books against bank statements and email; they say it found a year of misfiled contractor payments.
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Write resale listings that claim only what photos show
A developer built Honest Lister to write resale listings from photos; on 7 test items, he reports unsupported claims fell from 1.14 per listing to 0.
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Sort website visitors and book sales meetings automatically
Agency Boldest built a website sales agent for software company Delectable; its co-founder says it sorts visitors by their questions and books meetings with promising buyers unaided.
