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I Asked OpenAI's dots What It Could Do for Me. It Found ₹1.67 Lakh a Year I Was Losing.
· By Vaibhav Vijay · AI, OpenAI, AI Agents, Retention Marketing, Productivity
No task. No prompt about money. I just connected my inbox and asked what it could help me with.
It came back with a problem I didn't know I had.
• About ₹1.67 lakh a year going out across seven subscriptions
• Multiple subscriptions I had no memory of signing up for, renewing quietly every month and every year
• A few auto renewing without the price ever showing up in my inbox, one of them in just 11 days
The funny part? I'm a growth person. I design retention loops for a living. And I was the perfect "set and forget" customer.
Subscriptions don't win because you love them. They win because you forget them.
That's what made dots feel different. I didn't go looking for the problem. It found me first.
Which decisions in your life are you still paying for, long after you stopped choosing them?
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