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DuckyHelper
Example story

How a freelancer hands everyday computer chores to DuckyHelper on a schedule

Example · Freelance designer

Check which of last week's invoices are unpaidExample · Early access
When the weekly job runs
Mondays, 9 AM
Messages sent without asking
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DuckyHelper

DuckyHelper is always there on the computer: press one key in any app and ask out loud, or hand it a job to do in that window. In this example, a freelance designer works alone, which means the admin is theirs too: the inbox, the calendar, the invoices and the file handoffs. They started by asking it to do one chore at a time, and now the weekly ones run on a schedule, with DuckyHelper asking before anything is sent or paid. Agent features and schedules are in early access.

The problem

Every chore is a small detour from the work

Answering a scheduling email, sending last week's files, chasing an unpaid invoice. None of it is hard, and all of it pulls a designer out of the design file for twenty minutes at a time, several times a day, usually right when the work was going well.

Each chore lives in a different app, so no single tool covered them, and setting up an automation for each one felt like a second job. What they wanted was help that does the chore the way they would, in the same apps, and checks with them before anything leaves.

How it helped

Say what you want done, in the window it's in

With the email open, the designer drags the orb onto it and says: find a time next week and reply. DuckyHelper checks the calendar, drafts the reply and shows a Send, Edit or Deny card before it goes.

It works in that window with its own cursor while the designer keeps using theirs, so the design file never has to close and the chore never needs a second look unless something is off.

What changed

The weekly chores run themselves

After a job runs once, DuckyHelper offers to make it automatic: when it runs, what it does, then what it shows you. The Monday one now gathers last week's invoices, checks which are unpaid and drafts a polite reminder for each, ready for the designer to approve with their coffee.

It's still built to stop before every send and every payment, and not to type your passwords or card numbers for you. When a sign-in comes up, the designer signs in and it picks up where it stopped. Each finished job ends with a short record of what it did, so nothing happens out of sight.

What's next

One chore at a time, then more

The designer adds a chore when it starts to repeat, and turns one off when it stops being useful. The rule stays the same for every one of them: DuckyHelper does the clicking, the designer makes the calls. This is an example of how DuckyHelper works, not a measured result. Agent features and schedules are in early access on Mac.

DuckyHelper

It drafted the reply, the invoice reminders and the file handoff in the apps they were already in, and asked before each one went out.

What it did · Example
Put DuckyHelper to work

Ask it anything, or hand it the job, in any app.

Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.