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What to hand your agent

Not sure what to ask first? Here are ten jobs the Ipsion agent system has done on our own company, grouped by who they suit. Each one comes with a first prompt you can copy and change, what came back, and how long it took. The prompts are written for you to reuse. The results and times are from our runs, and yours will differ.

You can watch three of these in the short videos on the Alpha page.

How to write a good first prompt

• Say what you want and how it should feel, not every step. Your agents work out the steps.
• Say what done looks like: "live on my site", "a phone number I can call", "one summary every morning".
• Ask it to write down what it learned, so the next run goes faster.
• Ask it to check with you before anything goes out in your name or costs money. Its asks wait for you in Needs you. You are responsible for what your agents do for you (Terms, section 5).

For builders

1. Build a voice agent for your business

Build a phone receptionist for a dental office. It calls patients who are overdue for a cleaning, checks who they are, answers insurance questions and books the visit. Give me a number I can call to try it.

• What you get: the backend, a web app and a phone line, built side by side. The agent introduces the office, checks the patient, answers the insurance question and books the cleaning, on a real call.
• How long: the first real call came 58 minutes after the prompt. The whole product was built and live in about an hour and a half, from about ten prompts.
• Before real calls: test with made-up patients. Ipsion is not set up to hold patient health records, and calling real people needs their consent (Terms, section 9).

2. Add a sign-in option to your product, from your phone

Add "Sign in with LinkedIn" to my app. Keep the secret key off anything customers can reach. Test it, then put it live and tell me when it works.

• What you get: the new sign-in button, live, with all its tests passing (17 of 17 in our run).
• How long: asked from a phone at 4:05 AM, building by 4:08, live at 4:45: about 40 minutes.

3. Ship a new feature, checked by its own reviewers

Add a Workspace to my app with three tabs: Browser, Computer and Apps. I want to watch the agent work in it and take over the screen whenever I like. Test it with your own reviewers before it goes live.

• What you get: the feature, live, after all five agent tests passed. When its reviewers flagged a confusing label, it fixed that and put the fix live too.
• How long: about an hour.

4. Let it test and fix your app while you're away

I'm out all day. Keep testing my app on a real phone. Fix any bug you find, including ones nobody has reported, and put each fix live once its tests pass. Tonight, tell me what changed.

• What you get: bugs found and fixed without a message from you. In our run it tested its app on an iPhone, fixed a bug, then found and fixed bugs nobody had reported, and put the fixes live on all eight servers.
• How long: a working day, about 8 hours, with no messages from us.

For founders

5. Get your pitch deck ready for an investor meeting

I meet an investor tomorrow morning. Here is my latest deck. Tell me where it no longer holds up, then make a tighter 10-slide version, a one-page run sheet, and an audio walkthrough I can listen to on the drive.

• What you get: the weak spots first (six in our run), then by morning a new ten-slide deck, a run sheet and an audio walkthrough. After the meeting it can review the recording with you.
• How long: 4 minutes to the review of weak spots. The new deck was ready by the next morning.

6. Find investors who fit, and apply

Find the seed investors who fit my company and tell me why each one fits. Draft a short LinkedIn note to the best three for me to approve, and fill in their application forms.

• What you get: a list of funds with the reason each one fits, notes that go out only after you approve them, and finished applications. When a form rejected a field, the agent fixed it and sent it again.
• How long: the two applications went in 20 minutes apart.

7. Find your first customers

I sell a phone receptionist to dental offices. Rank the ten offices near me most likely to buy, and tell me how to approach them. Put the visits on my calendar with the address and a short brief for each.

• What you get: a ranked list of ten offices, a plan of approach (in our run: don't email, walk in at quiet hours and ask for the office manager, not the dentist), and eight visits on the calendar, each with the address, a brief and a one-page sheet to leave behind.
• How long: the ranked list was ready at 4:42 AM. The visits were booked for the following week.

For one-person companies

8. Turn one video into posts on six platforms

Here is my new video. Make an English and a Chinese cut, with a cover and a title for each platform. Show me before anything goes out, then post it to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Bilibili, WeChat Channels and Xiaohongshu, and check that each post really went live.

• What you get: both cuts, the covers and titles to approve once, then the posts live, each one checked after it went out.
• How long: storyboard one day, live on all six platforms the next, from one "ship it".
• Before you post: each platform has its own rules on automated posting. Follow them; an account can be limited for breaking them (Terms, section 8).

9. Get one summary every morning

Every morning, send me one summary: what got done yesterday, what is planned today, and what needs me. Also check every post that was meant to go out and tell me about any that never went live.

• What you get: one short summary each morning, and a daily check that catches posts that never went live.
• How long: set it up once. It runs every day without you.

10. Make a music video for your song

Here is my song and its lyrics. Make a music video for it: write a story from the lyrics, design the shots, animate each one and cut them on the beat. Tell me the price before you start generating.

• What you get: a finished music video. Ours, Ipsion Rising, came from one sentence: the agent wrote a story, designed 33 shots, animated each one and cut them on the beat. We made the song and its vocals ourselves first.
• How long: 47 minutes, and about $20 of video generation. Generated video is paid by the second, so ask for the price first.

Have a job that isn't here? Ask your agent in plain words, the way you would ask a person. If you're not sure it can do something, ask it that too.

Didn’t answer your question? Email support@ipsion.ai and say what you were trying to do.