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title: "Find something useful to do with AI"
description: "Explore 18 original AI walkthroughs with requests, illustrative results, follow-ups, and checks."
author: Graham
date: 2026-09-05
url: https://powerofai.ca/use-cases
---

# Find something useful to do with AI

Explore 18 original AI walkthroughs with requests, illustrative results, follow-ups, and checks.

Pick something from your own life. Every walkthrough gives you a request, an illustrative result, a follow-up, and a check before you use it.

- [Make dinner from what you have.](/use-cases/dinner-from-what-you-have): Turn a half-full fridge into a plan for tonight.
- [Understand a confusing letter.](/use-cases/untangle-a-letter): Find the action, the deadline, and the questions to ask.
- [Plan a weekend everyone likes.](/use-cases/weekend-plan): Build a flexible itinerary with room for rain.
- [Rehearse a difficult conversation.](/use-cases/practice-a-conversation): Try your words before the real moment.
- [Turn messy notes into next steps.](/use-cases/meeting-to-action): Find the decisions buried in a meeting.
- [Write a thoughtful customer reply.](/use-cases/customer-reply): Respond clearly without promising the impossible.
- [Find what looks wrong in a spreadsheet.](/use-cases/spreadsheet-check): Investigate duplicates, missing values, and odd totals.
- [Make a useful FAQ for your business.](/use-cases/business-faq): Answer the questions customers actually ask.
- [Learn something until it sticks.](/use-cases/learn-by-being-quizzed): Use AI as a tutor who waits for your answer.
- [Practise for a job interview.](/use-cases/interview-practice): Build better answers from experience you really have.
- [Make sense of a stack of sources.](/use-cases/read-a-stack-of-sources): Find agreements, contradictions, and unanswered questions.
- [Make a story together.](/use-cases/family-story): Let a child choose what happens next.
- [Edit a draft without losing your voice.](/use-cases/keep-your-writing-voice): Find the weak sentences and keep the good ones.
- [Find the hole in your story.](/use-cases/story-stress-test): Check what your characters want and why events happen.
- [Find the words for a visual idea.](/use-cases/design-direction): Turn “make it better” into useful creative direction.
- [Build a small tool you wish existed.](/use-cases/first-web-tool): Start with a useful calculator, checklist, or tracker.
- [Bring order to a messy project folder.](/use-cases/organize-project-files): Get a proposed structure before anything moves.
- [Take on a project you kept putting off.](/use-cases/ambitious-project): Break a bigger idea into work you can inspect.

Time labels are suggested practice sessions, not measured savings.