The next Big AI opportunity is a mop? 💥

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🧠 TL;DR – This Day in AI

A new way to turn user feedback into product moves. One big story on robots returning. A 15 minute guide to make a messy folder searchable with TidyDocs and see what it does that ChatGPT cannot. Five useful tools. A copy paste prompt to clean your task list and prepare calendar reminders. Five quick bites. One question for you.

In today’s AI Spotlight :

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Make User Feedback Build Roadmaps

Asha runs product for a small app. Karthik leads support. Every Monday they argue with love and coffee. Asha says, “We need proof, not vibes.” Karthik says, “Users are shouting, but no one hears them.”

They open Enterpret. In one click it pulls tickets, reviews, and survey answers from the past quarter. The tool clusters the language into themes like “login loop,” “slow checkout,” “confusing plan names.” Each theme shows how often it appears, the trend, and sample quotes. Asha clicks “slow checkout.” She sees that the spike started after their last release. A built in view shows which plan types and devices are most affected. Karthik opens two example tickets. They match what his team sees daily.

Asha presses “suggest actions.” Enterpret drafts three clean product proposals with impact score, effort guess, and user quotes. With one button, Asha sends the top item to Jira and adds the exact customer lines as acceptance notes. Karthik turns the second item into a help article using the quotes to write simple steps.

What this tool does, in simple words:
It turns unstructured feedback into clear themes, gives numbers and quotes you can trust, and pushes actions to the tools you already use. It saves the team from reading a thousand lines of text and missing the point.

How Canva, Perplexity and Notion turn feedback chaos into actionable customer intelligence

You’re sitting on a goldmine of feedback: tickets, surveys, reviews, but can’t mine it.

Manual tagging doesn’t scale, and insights fall through the cracks.

Enterpret’s AI unifies all feedback, auto‑tags themes, and ties them to revenue/CSAT, surfacing what matters to customers.

The result: faster decisions, clearer priorities, and stronger retention.

👉 See how top teams do it

On my radar

AI hardware and robots

OpenAI’s quiet return to robots

There is grapevine talk that OpenAI is spending real effort on robots again. Friendly home demos trend online. Funding moves around humanoid startups pick up. The signal is simple: software wants a body.

Snapshot:

• Why now: cheaper sensors, better small models, and new safety tricks for home use

• Early trials: simple chores like pick, sort, roll, carry in controlled spaces

• The bet: a reliable home task becomes the next platform, like phones did for apps

What is the underlying point (my view):
I think the next win is not a smart chat box. It is a boring, safe, reliable chore robot. The first team that makes it never fail at one job will own the store for the physical world. That is where money flows next.

Hands on AI

🎉 Turn a messy folder of PDFs and notes into a searchable brief with citations.

What TidyDocs can do that ChatGPT cannot:

• Persistent index of a folder. TidyDocs builds a local library you can reuse tomorrow. A normal chat does not keep a durable index across sessions.

• Page true citations. It returns page and line level references for every claim. A normal chat can read files, but page exact output is not consistent.

• Large sets with OCR. It handles many long PDFs and scanned images with auto OCR. A normal chat struggles with very large mixed sets.

• Cross file links. It shows where ideas repeat across documents, not only inside one file.

Steps

1. Install and connect. Create a free TidyDocs account. Point it to one folder on your drive or cloud.

2. Ingest. Drop in PDFs, DOCX, images of pages, and notes. Wait for the check mark.

3. Create a project. Name it, choose “semantic search plus summarize.”

4. Ask simple questions. Type: “What are the top three problems across these files. Give quotes and page numbers.”

5. Open the map. Click “themes” to see clusters. Expand one theme to read sample lines with citations.

6. Draft a brief. Click “compose” and select “one page outline.” TidyDocs pulls bullets with sources.

7. Export. Send a doc with citations to your editor or to your manager.

Tip: Keep questions short. Use words from the files. Always open two citations to confirm.

Time: about 15 minutes for a first brief.

AI Toolbox Spotlight

Trending AI tools

• 🔎 Arc Search “Browse for me.” One tap creates a cited page on a topic that you can share. Why useful: saves you from ten tabs.

• 🗂️ Raycast AI. A fast command bar on Mac to rename files, draft emails, and run scripts from one place. Why useful: cuts tiny daily waits.

• 🧠 Perplexity Pages. Turn a search into a clean explainer page with sources at the bottom. Why useful: share answers that others can read fast.

• 🎙️ AudioPen. Talk for a minute, get a clear note in plain English. Why useful: move from messy thoughts to a tidy draft.

• 🧾 Bardeen. Record a browser task once, then repeat it with one click. Why useful: simple web chores become repeatable.

Prompt Power

To Do checker and reminder setter
How to use
Paste this prompt into a new chat. Run it each morning. It will ask for your tasks, rewrite them clearly, and prepare reminder text you can paste into your calendar.

Example reminder
“Review Q3 budget. Start: open last month file and list overspend lines. Due Tue 4 pm. Reminder at 2 pm.”.
Copy/Paste prompt from here

Quick Bytes

• Windows Copilot shows up in more places. Expect rewrite, summarize, and explain buttons across default apps. Takeaway: more tasks will live in the right click menu.

• Apple assistant claims grow. Early users say on device actions feel natural for simple tasks. Takeaway: privacy first actions may become the norm.

• Robots get fresh funding. Several teams raise new rounds for humanoid helpers. Takeaway: money is betting on a simple home chore done well.

• Study says data is the pinch point. New analysis shows high quality data is now the main limit, not only compute. Takeaway: your private data will matter more than before.

• Teens and chat bots. Surveys show many teens use bots for study help and venting. Takeaway: schools will need clear guardrails and language.

Closing Remark

Where do you draw the line at home?
I mean a real line. What task would you gladly hand to a robot, and what task must stay human? Hit reply and tell me your honest take—I’ll feature the best responses in next week’s edition.

Until next time, stay curious and keep exploring!

Srini

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