Contracts, grants & applications: 7 real cases

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.

Draft and submit a $20,000 arts grant proposal in 12 minutes with ChatGPT

Mary Catherine Brooks, board president of the Greenville Arts Council in Mississippi, learned at 4:48 PM that a $20,000 grant proposal was due by 5:00 PM. Brooks opened ChatGPT, uploaded the council's past successful proposals and had it use them to produce a new draft. The proposal was submitted before the deadline and won the $20,000, which will support arts and education programming for children and families across the Delta. '12 minutes of ChatGPT is making an impact on the lives of thousands of kids,' Brooks says.

Redline a vendor's standard OEM agreement with Claude for the first three rounds, then have a lawyer do the final check

jedberg regularly negotiates OEM agreements with vendors that mostly use the same template and draw the same objections. They tried Claude first, and their lawyer was impressed that it found things the lawyer had missed. jedberg then used Claude to redline that type of contract, and the other side remarked that the lawyer had been surprisingly thorough. The lawyer did the final check and by then basically said it looked good, and jedberg saved a lot of money by doing the first three rounds with Claude.

Find, negotiate and review a small office lease with Codex

Codex found a 74 sq ft commercial lease near the poster's kids' school, negotiated the terms and reviewed the contract; the poster found it cheaper than a coworking desk.

Summarize a 10-page lease renewal before signing with Grok

An X user says that to renew an office lease with the landlord, they asked Grok to summarize the 10+ pages of legal terms instead of going over them with an attorney, and it took less than 30 minutes to fully review the details themselves. The post includes a screenshot of Grok's summary of the shopping-center lease amendment, covering the term extension and rent schedule.

Draft government-solicitation proposals in 25 minutes with n8n AI workflows

According to n8n's case study, Field Aerospace's self-hosted n8n AI workflows bring a proposal draft that used to take about two weeks of work from three or four people to an 80% starting point in roughly 25 minutes, and replaced two legacy tools, eliminating approximately $30,000 in annual software costs (the case study's headline gives $22,000 a year).

According to n8n:Proposal time cut from 2 weeks to 25 minutes

Fill an accelerator application with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent filled an accelerator application using the poster's context and chat memory; the poster rated it 8/10, and also had it research vendors into a spreadsheet (7/10).