Gemini: Ops

Turn a sourdough hobby into a licensed microbakery with Gemini

Inna Pak, a stay-at-home mom in San Francisco's Richmond District, turned to AI to learn how to make a sourdough hobby a business. 'When I was doing my license, I don't think I could actually do it without the A.I. help,' Pak said. Pak used Gemini for everything from how to create labels for the loaves to ingredient measurements and baking schedules, and even the bakery's name, Plum Perfect. Since opening in May, Pak sells 10 to 20 loaves a week through a Saturday pop-up and online orders, and dreams of a brick-and-mortar bakery.

Turn a retailer's carton labeling rules into a label file with Gemini

Jamie Kim, owner of the granola company Jamie's Farm in New York, uses Gemini to work through big retailers' dense delivery-guideline PDFs, where a mistake can mean major chargebacks. When one retailer required every shipping carton to be labeled with its number and destination warehouse, Kim asked Gemini to help generate a custom CSV file for the label template and point to online label-making software, turning a full day's work into one hour. Gemini in Sheets also helped write formulas for a spreadsheet tracking inventory, sales and cost of goods.

Build a five-question Google Form with an AI browser agent: Gemini handed it back, Claude finished it (partial)

Irena Palamani Xhurxhi asked Gemini to build a Google Form. It got partway, then stopped and asked Xhurxhi to take over because it couldn't change the question type in the interface. Xhurxhi gave the same task to Claude in the browser and went back to other work; when they returned, the form was done, with all five questions, correct types, descriptions and required fields. Asked about it, Claude said it had struggled with the same parts, trying clicks, JavaScript workarounds and keyboard navigation, but kept going rather than handing it back.