Draft replenishment orders from demand signals for inventory-manager approval
Microsoft outlines an agent that combines logistics context and demand forecasts, flags stock risks, and prepares reviewed replenishment orders before updating the ERP.
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AI agent use cases: 13 examples
Source-linked workflows that name AI agent. Part of the AI agent use cases on UsecaseBoard, or browse all use cases.
Guide an employee through a complete, reviewable recognition nomination
The Copilot Studio scenario collects nomination details, drafts a summary, requests the user's confirmation, and keeps nomination and recognition history accessible.
Build a work-learning assistant that connects a course plan with enrollment and progress
Microsoft outlines an agent that organizes learning materials, recommends role-relevant training, supports enrollment and scheduling, and reports completion data.
Track cross-entity balance-sheet mismatches through a reviewed reconciliation process
Microsoft describes an agent that aligns records across systems, flags missing or mismatched entries, and routes proposed explanations and adjustments for manager review.
Prepare collections priorities from overdue balances and actual payment history
The scenario describes analyzing business payment records, ranking overdue accounts, and preparing contextual follow-up actions and reminders.
Explain invoice exceptions using purchase orders and goods-receipt evidence
Microsoft outlines an agent that matches invoice, order, and receipt data, checks policy rules, and recommends a review path for unresolved discrepancies.
Route unusual vendor transactions to an evidence-backed review queue
Microsoft outlines a Copilot Studio agent that normalizes ERP transactions, checks payment patterns and explicit risk rules, and documents flagged exceptions.
Keep a padel booking agent conversational while n8n owns availability
A builder reports that a two-court booking system became more reliable after moving availability checks, resource assignment, and booking IDs out of the LLM and into deterministic n8n workflows.
Route education inquiries before handing them to an AI support agent
A builder's LinkedIn post describes preprocessing and routing chat inquiries for an educational institute so the LLM receives the relevant request type instead of every raw message indiscriminately.
Give an AI agent a dedicated inbox and process incoming message threads
AgentMail's Product Hunt page describes per-agent inboxes, incoming-message events, threaded replies, semantic search, and attachment extraction. This lead is an infrastructure recipe rather than a measured customer result.
Draft occasion-specific greetings from a relationship notes sheet
An AI agent checks a Sheets list of birthdays and anniversaries, uses relationship notes to personalize messages, and passes matching greetings to an email step.