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Happy Sunday,
Today I'm showing you how to get ChatGPT to negotiate every bill you pay so you stop paying so much (this is the one I'd do this weekend), then Claude just got a big upgrade with Docs, Slides and Design built straight into the chat, and ChatGPT now plugs into Indeed and applies to jobs for you.
Let's get into it.
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IN THIS EMAIL
» ChatGPT can now lower your bills
» Claude can now make your docs and slides
» ChatGPT can now apply to jobs for you
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💰 DO THIS TODAY
ChatGPT Can Now Lower Your Bills
Almost every bill you pay is higher than it needs to be. Your car insurance, your internet, your phone plan, the gym you forgot about. The companies know most people will never call and push back, so they don't lower it. This is exactly where ChatGPT comes in, and it's about to save you a lot of money. It goes through your statements, finds every bill, finds out what the competitors would charge you, emails your current provider to get them to match, and then handles the replies for you until every bill is closed out. You paste three prompts and check your inbox. Here's the whole thing.
Step 1: Open ChatGPT and switch to Work at the top. If you pay for ChatGPT, make sure GPT-6 Astra is the model selected, and if you're on the free plan, pick the newest 5.6 model it gives you. Then paste this. If Gmail isn't connected yet it'll ask you to connect it, or you can drag in your last three months of statements instead.
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@Gmail Go through my statements and emails and list every recurring bill and subscription I pay: provider, amount, how often, and when it next renews. Then split them into three groups: ones I can negotiate down (insurance, internet, phone, energy, anything with competitors), ones I should just cancel because I haven't used them in 60 days, and ones to leave alone. Put it in a table with the yearly total for each group.
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That table is the wake-up call, because it's the first time you see the yearly number for everything in one place, and the "haven't used in 60 days" group is always longer than you think. Now the part that actually saves you money.
Step 2: Stay in the same chat and paste this.
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For every bill in the negotiate group, find out what the three biggest competitors would charge me for the same plan or coverage, using my details. Then @Gmail email each of my current providers: tell them the competitor's price, say I'm ready to switch today, and ask what they can do to keep me. Show me each email before you send it.
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This works more often than you'd expect. Keeping you is cheaper for them than finding a new customer, and most of them have a number they're allowed to go to the moment you say the word "switch". You're not on hold, you're not on their chat, you're just approving emails that ChatGPT already wrote.
Step 3: This is the part I love. ChatGPT will handle the replies for you. Paste this last.
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Set up a scheduled task: every morning, @Gmail check for replies from these providers. If they match or beat the competitor's price, reply accepting it and tell me. If they offer less, reply once with the competitor's price and ask them to match it. If they say no, tell me and I'll switch. Run this until every bill is closed out. Then for everything in the cancel group, @Gmail send the cancellation email or find me the cancellation link.
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So the whole negotiation happens while you're doing something else. A provider comes back with an offer, ChatGPT reads it, replies, and you get a one-line summary of where each bill landed. The whole thing takes about twenty minutes of your actual attention, and it's the same twenty minutes every year.
Get my full ChatGPT Work guide →
🚀 THIS IS BIG
Claude Can Now Make Your Docs and Slides
On Wednesday Anthropic folded Cowork, the do-tasks-for-you side of Claude, into the normal Claude app, so there's no more picking which one to open. And they used the moment to launch three things inside the chat: Claude Docs, Claude Slides and Claude Design.
Here's what that means in practice. You ask for a report and it writes an actual document you can edit with it, line by line, at a link you can share. You ask for a deck and it builds real slides you can click into and change, then export as a PowerPoint or PDF. You ask for a graphic and it designs it in the conversation. The example they gave is one message: "write it the way we always do, flag anything that slipped, and put the highlights in five slides for the leadership meeting," and it hands back the report and the deck together.
It's rolling out on Pro and Max over the next few weeks, on web, desktop and mobile, with Team and Free coming after. If you're on Pro and don't see it yet, that's why. This is the first time Claude has had a real answer to the "make me the thing, not the text of the thing" problem, and it's the one I'd been waiting for.
Two smaller ones from OpenAI this week that matter if you use ChatGPT for work:
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Why you care |
| ChatGPT inside Microsoft Word |
New add-in on Thursday. Draft, summarize, rewrite and format from a sidebar without leaving the document |
| Custom GPTs are being retired |
If you built one, go to My GPTs and hit Migrate to plugin before December 11, when the old ones stop running. Plugins do the same job and can also connect to your apps |
Read the full Claude announcement here →
💼 WORTH KNOWING
ChatGPT Can Now Apply to Jobs for You
Indeed now plugs straight into ChatGPT. Instead of scrolling listings one at a time and pasting your resume into the same form forty times, you connect your Indeed account, ChatGPT pulls the jobs in, ranks them by how likely you are to get an interview, and then goes and applies for you, one tailored application at a time. Setup takes about three minutes. Here's how.
Step 1: Update your resume on Indeed first. ChatGPT can't upload files for you, so whatever is sitting on your Indeed profile is what gets sent. Fix that before anything else.
Step 2: Open ChatGPT, click Plugins in the left sidebar, search for Indeed, hit Install, and sign in to your Indeed account when it asks. That's the whole connection.
Step 3: Start a new chat and paste this in.
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@Indeed Use what is on my resume to find every job I am qualified for that was posted in the last seven days, and rank them by how likely I am to land an interview.
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What comes back is a ranked list with pay, company ratings and an "Apply on Indeed" button on every one. That alone is a weekend of work done in a minute. But the part people are losing their minds over is the next step, and it needs the desktop app and a Plus plan.
Step 4: In the ChatGPT desktop app, stay in the same chat and paste this.
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@browser Go through the ranked job list, starting from the top, and apply to the top 50 jobs. For each one, open the listing on Indeed, read the job description, and tailor my application to it.
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ChatGPT opens Indeed in its own browser and starts applying, rewriting the cover letter for each listing as it goes. Keep your laptop awake while it runs, and when it asks how much freedom to give it, pick "Approve for me" rather than full access, so you see anything weird before it sends. In practice you'll get through 50 to 150 real, tailored applications in a session, which is more than most people send in a month.
Not everyone reading this is job hunting, but everyone reading this knows someone who is. This is the one to forward.
Get all 8 prompts and the full setup guide →
Paste the first bills prompt tonight, even if you don't do the rest yet. Seeing the yearly number for everything in one place is the part that gets you moving.
See you Wednesday.
Maverick
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