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Tara Viswanathan, cofounder of AI-powered construction startup Unlimited Industries, recently put OpenAI’s agentic capabilities to the test and was impressed by the results.

In a post on X, Viswanathan described how she used ChatGPT (Pro version) to find an Airbnb for an October event. This was her prompt:

“I want to find an Airbnb for [event] in [city / neighborhood] in October this year. I want it for at least that Wednesday through ideally the next Monday. And I want a super nice modern spot that is ideally walkable to the event. Tell me about the area nearby. And ideally it’s walkable to coffee shops and things like that too. And I want it to have at least four bedrooms.”

She also helped ChatGPT do preparatory work by getting the chatbot to absorb information about her preferences upfront.

“What are some core things that you need to know about me so that you can execute on more complicated tasks accurately?,” she wrote to ChatGPT. “Different types of preferences or styles, things like that. Give me a list of questions that I can answer so you can remember. And give me multiple choice answers to make it easy for me.”

That resulted in Viswanathan sharing likes and dislikes on topics such as food/meals, hotels, travel, and communication, helping the ChatGPT agent conduct more bespoke research on her behalf.

The AI delivered a spot-on recommendation within about 10 minutes, versus more than an hour if she’d done this online research herself.

“I’m very picky about where I stay,” she wrote. “The benefit is less about the time savings and more about the peace of mind knowing it’s going to handle it. Insane.”

Some travelers love organizing trips more than actually going on them. For everyone else, Viswanathan’s experiment offers a compelling glimpse of the future: A proactive AI concierge that knows you well enough to get travel recommendations right the first time.

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