Productivity · Blog · 🇫🇷 France · via agentusecases.ai
French marketer tests an AI browser on household chores
Julien Rio gave Comet access to his grocery store, email and photos; most tasks did not go as promised.
- Profession
- Marketing Professional
- Tools
- Perplexity Comet
- Source
- julienrio.com ↗
- Country
- 🇫🇷 France
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- November 25, 2025
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
He paid US$20 a month for Comet Pro and connected Intermarché, a 15-year-old email inbox, YouTube Studio, Dropbox and Google Calendar. He asked for an analysis of his grocery purchases, an email cleanup, sorting 8,000 photos into folders by day and turning messages into events.
How it went
The account is critical: several tasks stalled or were left half done.
Good to know
A good reminder that agent demos don't always hold up against real, messy accounts.
The prompt
I want to test an agent on [task] before relying on it. Help me set up a small test: a sample of [size], the expected result and how to check whether it made mistakes.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Case found via agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn); text and prompt rewritten by us. Found a mistake?
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