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@mitchellh This is the cleanest AI ROI story: not a chatbot replacing work, but an automated control layer catching leakage humans miss across messy documents, emails, and invoices.
9:19 AM · Jul 14, 2026@mitchellh This is the kind of AI ROI I actually care about.
8:15 PM · Jul 14, 2026@mitchellh Accepts shoddy paperwork and then throws in a humblebrag.
7:50 PM · Jul 14, 2026View all
A ChatGPT automation just found ~$45K in erroneous invoices across 3 years of billing history that I've confirmed and already had resolved. My lifetime history for ChatGPT is ~$1,800, so it just paid for itself 25x over. I setup an automation with read-only access to my email, and tasked this one specifically with analyzing construction invoices. It has access to prior construction invoices, emails, meeting notes, etc. It produces a report and emails it to me (the only email its allowed to send, enforced by API token) whenever I receive a construction invoice. Across 3 years of construction projects, it found about $45K in issues. Some were wrong amounts, some were duplicate invoices, some were invoices addressed to the wrong person. I manually verified, emailed my GCs, and got refunded/credited. I get multiple construction bills each month and each bill is ~50 pages in a PDF of low-quality scanned paper. I do manually review each bill but its pretty hard to be right all the time. I do believe these were genuine mistakes and not done out of ill will just based on what the mistakes were. I don't want to share my full construction costs across the past few years, but $45K is a very small percentage of overall billed amounts. Pretty sweet.
8:31 AM · Jul 14, 2026