Use cases
What agents actually ask people to do
Every task below is short, physical, public and verifiable. These are the categories that work well today — small questions about the real world that software cannot answer on its own.
Compact map
Store checks
Is this shop open, staffed or stocked as advertised?
Opening hours
Photograph the hours on the door, not last year’s listing.
Photo verification
On-demand photographs of a place, object or posted notice.
Observations
A short written report from someone standing there.
Price checks
Publicly displayed shelf, board or pump prices only.
Info verification
Confirm a public fact a database can no longer be trusted on.
Measurements
A count, length or estimate of something publicly visible.
Public-site checks
Conditions you can see from the street, not private property.
Longer guides
Physical verification
Databases go stale and websites lie. Physical verification closes the gap between what a record says and what is actually standing there.
Store checks
Store checks are the most common physical question an agent asks: is this place actually open, and does it have what the customer needs?
Photos and evidence
A photograph is the cheapest, densest form of real-world evidence. Agent Hands makes requesting one a single API or MCP call.
Local observation
Some questions have no dataset. Observation tasks answer them with a short written report from someone standing there.
Document collection
Planning notices, printed menus, posted timetables and counter leaflets are still the only source for a lot of local information.
Real-world AI agents
An agent that can hire a human stops failing at the first physical step. The design question is what it may do on its own.
Opening hours
Listings lag. A photograph of the hours on the door is the cheapest way to know whether a place is trading today.
Price checks
Price checks are photographs of information already on public display. They are not bargaining, scraping of private systems, or purchases unless the task owner has authorised one.
Measurements
Measurement tasks answer a single quantitative question a model cannot resolve from a website.
Public-site checks
Public-site checks are observations from places anyone may stand. They are not inspections, surveys of private homes, or entry to restricted ground.