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Use Cases

Households

Parents, partners, caregivers, anyone running a home that involves more than one schedule, more than one set of school emails, and more contractor quotes than you'd like to admit. Deck works just as well outside of work as inside it.

If your day looks like this​

  • Your inbox holds school emails, doctor portals, contractor quotes, travel confirmations, and a hundred Amazon receipts.
  • You're the household's "person who remembers things" by default.
  • Family schedules — soccer practice, the dentist, the dog walker — live in your head or a shared calendar that nobody actually reads.
  • You'd love an assistant for life-outside-work without paying for one.

Set up first​

  1. A Family project — kids' activities, important dates, family contacts, school logistics.
  2. A Home project — contractor quotes, warranty docs, appliance manuals, lease or mortgage paperwork, home-insurance policy.
  3. A Travel project — itineraries, booking confirmations, passport scans, loyalty programs.
  4. A Health project — visit summaries, lab results, prescription details, insurance correspondence.

Use cases worth setting up​

Subscribe your assistant directly to school and family lists​

When the school portal, the doctor's office, the kids' activity coordinator, or anyone else asks where to send updates, give them your assistant address (your-name@agent.hellodeck.ai) instead of your personal inbox. Deck files everything against the right project as it arrives — no manual forwarding. See Use your assistant address directly.

Then Friday: "what's coming up at school next week?" — pulls dates, deadlines, and that one form you forgot to sign.

For lists you're already subscribed to and can't easily switch (an existing newsletter, a school mailing list where you can't change the address on file), set up a Gmail or Outlook auto-forward rule as a fallback — Deck handles forwarded mail the same way.

Contractor-quote comparison​

Forward three contractor estimates for the same job into Home. Ask: "compare these quotes — what's included, what's not, where do they differ on materials?"

The decision becomes easier; you also have a record of who quoted what.

Travel-day briefing​

The night before a trip: "summarize tomorrow's travel — flight time, gate if known, hotel address, who I'm meeting, what time I land."

You walk out the door the next morning with the day already pre-loaded.

Family-calendar Q&A​

Connect Google Calendar and ask: "is anyone double-booked Saturday afternoon?" or "what's everyone doing on the kids' first day back at school?"

Receipt and warranty recall​

Forward Amazon order confirmations, warranty registrations, and appliance manuals into Home. Two years later: "when did we buy the dishwasher and what's the warranty status?" — answered in seconds.

Doctor-portal context​

Where the patient portal lets you set a notification email, point it at your assistant address so visit summaries, lab results, and prescription renewals land directly in a Health project. Otherwise forward them in. Before a follow-up: "what did the doctor say at the last visit and what was the follow-up plan?"

Birthdays, anniversaries, social upkeep​

A monthly scheduled task: "any birthdays or anniversaries in the next 30 days from the people in Family?"

The kind of thing that gets remembered every other year by accident. Now it gets remembered every year on purpose.

One-time reminders​

"On May 14, email me a one-line reminder that the lease auto-renews the next day." See On-demand and one-time tasks.

What good looks like after two weeks​

  • The school inbox stops being a source of dread.
  • Travel days are smoother because tomorrow's brief is in your inbox tonight.
  • Contractor decisions are easier because comparisons are visible.
  • You remember birthdays the way you wish someone else would.