First impressions on Operator
2025-01-24
I tried using Operator on a couple of tasks.
The most successful one was drafting an update to a document. We have a Partnerships document that we use as a part of our sales materials and we're onboarding a new partner. I needed to go to the Partner's website and draft some language for them to edit / approve.
I've been putting this off for a couple of weeks so I fed it to Operator. It took a little nudging, but eventually it was able to read through their site and write passable copy that I could refine and send to the partner for their review. So that's a success. Worth $200 a month? If I have 2-3 tasks like this each month, I think so.
I also tried seeing if I could get Operator to compile information for me (e.g., create a CSV file with the meeting dates and times of the Roswell City Council for the rest of January). It failed here in two ways:
- First, the meetings were wrong. It grabbed one that was in the past and then chose not to grab some of the meetings upcoming this week. It's possible that some of this was prompter error and could be fixed with more trials.
- There was no easy way to export the information. I wanted it to create a CSV file for me, but couldn't get it to. I do imagine that this will improve over time.
This past summer, I tried out several other products in this space (e.g., AutoTab) and this is a big step beyond what was possible then... but still not there yet.
More to come here over time!