When banks, airlines, and Yelp start blocking consumer agents
At a glance
Users of Meta Muse, Grok, OpenAI Dots, and Instinct report hit blocks on major sites—Yelp gating licensed agents, Delta refusing ticket bookings, and big banks keeping external agents out of accounts. This workflow is listed under Meta-Muse, Grok-Bot, Travel, Money-Bills, Access-Blocks.
After a Grok Bot cut one user’s Comcast bill by $43/mo, a coffee-shop tester gave Grok Bot, ChatGPT Dots, and Meta Muse the same retention/negotiation job to compare how agents handle real bills.
A first-time Muse user gave it a real errand—dispute a Verizon travel charge—and noted it needed help finding support chat, highlighting agent limits on carrier sites.
At a fund launch, a founder's agent stack (Grok Bot, Claude, Instinct, Muse, Dots) and the CMO's agents negotiated budget while the humans typed nothing—exposing the need for agents that can talk across stacks.
Zack had Grok Bot fill out a refund request for a canceled flight; less than two minutes later the airline emailed confirmation that the whole form was submitted.