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title: "Operator use cases: 6 real examples"
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> From Agentic Feats: sourced examples of AI agents at work. Map of the site for agents: https://agenticfeats.com/llms.txt

# Operator use cases: 6 real examples

Agentic Feats lists 6 sourced examples of Operator in real work; 2 link the artifact; most common job type: research (4). Newest first.

## Feats, newest first

- [Compiling a course list](https://agenticfeats.com/c/compiling-a-course-list-operator.md) (Operator; Claim; 2026-10-13): OpenAI's Operator browsed the author's online course site and compiled a list of courses with fees and descriptions while they got coffee. Result: Operator returned the requested list of courses, fees and descriptions without further input, saving the author a few minutes of manual admin work.
- [Hands-on Operator test](https://agenticfeats.com/c/hands-on-operator-test.md) (Operator; Numbers; 2026-10-13): Casey Newton tested OpenAI's Operator on walking tours, a Gatsby lesson plan, Instacart groceries, and an Uber price check. Result: Operator handled tour search and lesson plan but was slow; adding three grocery items took 15 minutes and an Uber price check took five.
- [School financials from ProPublica](https://agenticfeats.com/c/school-financials-from-propublica-operator.md) (Operator; Numbers; 2026-10-13): Operator searched ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer for independent schools and logged their financial data into a Google Sheet; o1 then built a dashboard. Result: Operator collected data for about 25 of 100 schools before the author stopped it; o1 then built a working chart dashboard from that data.
- [Operator concert and product research](https://agenticfeats.com/c/operator-concert-and-product-research.md) (Operator; Shown; 2026-10-13): Operator, OpenAI's browser agent, was tried on finding Berlin classical concerts and researching Anki competitors, using prompts and screen recordings. Result: Both tasks failed. The concert search returned three wrong concerts after 33 minutes, and the Anki competitor list had incorrect data.
- [Operator concert restaurant booking](https://agenticfeats.com/c/operator-concert-restaurant-booking.md) (Operator; Claim; 2026-10-13): Operator, tested by a member of Allie Miller's team, found a gluten-free restaurant near a Minneapolis concert venue and made a reservation. Result: Operator completed the restaurant search and booked the reservation, but a keto meal plan and a quilt pattern search came back weak.
- [Operator review: tweets, news, builders](https://agenticfeats.com/c/operator-review-tweets-news-builders.md) (Operator; Shown; 2026-10-13): The author spent $200 on ChatGPT Operator and tested it on tweet analysis, AI news summaries, website builder pricing lists, and article summaries. Result: It returned duplicate and months-old tweets, summarized one news source, copied a single listicle, and stopped to ask permission mid-task. The author says productivity dropped.