Big Idea

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Meta Muse works best when you skip heavy setup, chat with it in one thread, and hand it recurring chores that it can run on a schedule and connect to your apps as needed.

Who This Is For

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READ IF YOU ARE…

You keep putting off chores like comparing insurance rates, tracking price drops, or chasing a restaurant reservation, and want an AI agent to do them for you.
You've heard of Meta Muse and want a concrete, step-by-step picture of what it can do before installing it.
You want a free AI assistant that reads your Gmail and calendar and gives you a spoken morning briefing.
You're in the US or Canada, where Muse is currently available, and have a Meta or Facebook login.

SKIP IF…

You're outside the US and Canada, since Muse isn't available there yet.
You want a technical comparison of Muse against other AI agents. This is a practical demo, not a benchmark.
You're uncomfortable giving an AI agent access to your email, calendar, or insurance documents.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Meta Muse is a free AI agent built around a single chat thread, and the video argues you should skip upfront setup and let it learn what you need. After naming it and giving it a profile image, you connect apps only when it asks. Seven uses follow: a scheduled morning briefing with a voice file, savings hunts on insurance and bills, a personal shopper that watches for deals, hard-to-get reservations via OpenTable checks and AI phone calls, automatic goal tracking, a personalized news feed, and a curated ideas list. The advice is to start with one annoying task and add more once it works.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:20

01 · Cold open

Muse is free yet can shop, manage email, save money, and make phone calls.

00:20 – 03:52

02 · Setup: name it, one thread

Download the app, sign in with Meta, name your Muse, and understand the single main chat. No upfront app connections needed.

03:52 – 06:30

03 · Use case 1: Morning briefing

A scheduled 7:30 a.m. report from Gmail, Calendar, and Google Tasks, delivered as a voice file.

06:30 – 08:15

04 · Use case 2: Saving money

Insurance rate shopping, bill negotiation, and a weekly Saturday savings scan of your email.

08:15 – 09:40

05 · Sponsor: Reception.ai

Sponsor read for an ElevenLabs AI receptionist that answers business calls and books appointments.

09:40 – 11:40

06 · Use case 3: Personal shopper

Choosing a game console under $900, viewing game images, and scheduling a deal check every three days.

11:40 – 13:20

07 · Use case 4: Hard reservations

Daily OpenTable checks plus AI phone calls to a hard-to-book Denver restaurant.

13:20 – 14:20

08 · Use case 5: Goals

The Goals section auto-creates and checks off goals based on your chats.

14:20 – 15:30

09 · Use case 6: Personalized feed

A zero-setup news feed curated from what you chat about.

15:30 – 16:37

10 · Use case 7: Ideas

A curated list of suggestions for when you don't know what to use Muse for.

16:37 – 17:04

11 · Wrap-up and next video

Start with one annoying task, then add more. Points to a follow-up video on five more features.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

Muse is built around one main chat thread, like texting a person on WhatsApp, instead of a pile of separate conversations.
You don't need to pre-load an AI agent with information about yourself. Muse learns what it needs as you use it.
You can ask Muse what it can do or which apps it connects to, and it will tell you and walk you through connecting them.
Scheduling is what turns a one-off prompt into automation: a morning report at 7:30 a.m. runs every day without being asked again.
Asking for the briefing as a voice file means you can listen while getting ready instead of staring at your phone.
Muse has its own browser and can navigate the web like a human, which is how it hunts for better insurance policies.
One user reported Muse finding a car insurance policy that saved $3,500 a year, buying it, and canceling the old one in about five minutes.
Another user reported Muse negotiating his cable and phone bills for roughly $800 a year in savings.
A weekly Saturday task can scan your past week of email for subscriptions and purchases where a cheaper option or price match exists.
For hard reservations, Muse checks OpenTable daily and, if nothing opens, phones the restaurant itself and sends you a transcript.
Muse can set a recurring check, such as every three days, for a deal on a product and alert you only when one appears.
The Goals section fills itself from your chats, so mentioning a PlayStation 5 purchase creates a goal and buying it can check it off.
The Feed tab needs zero setup and gets more personalized the more you chat.
The Ideas tab suggests uses tailored to what you've already discussed, which solves the blank-page problem.
Start with the one task you've been procrastinating on, then add more once it works.

Takeaway

Start small and let the agent learn you

WHAT TO LEARN

An AI agent pays off when you skip the heavy setup, hand it one recurring chore, and let it connect apps and learn your preferences as it goes.

02Setup: name it, one thread

Skip upfront configuration: Muse asks for the apps it needs when a task requires them, so a long profile or connection checklist is wasted effort.
Treat the single main thread like a messaging contact, and use side chats only when you want a recurring task kept organized.

03Use case 1: Morning briefing

Phrase requests as questions about capability, like which to-do apps it works with, and let the agent tell you what's possible and how to connect it.
Pair a scheduled task with a voice output to get a daily briefing from email, calendar, and tasks without looking at a screen.

04Use case 2: Saving money

Point an agent at your biggest recurring costs, such as insurance and phone or cable bills, and ask for equal coverage at a lower rate.
Automate the savings hunt with a weekly email scan for subscriptions with cheaper options and purchases eligible for price matching.

06Use case 3: Personal shopper

Turn shopping into a standing job: set a check every few days for a price drop and get alerted only when a good deal appears.
Ask follow-up questions in plain language, including what jargon like disc versus digital means, before committing to a purchase.

07Use case 4: Hard reservations

For scarce bookings, combine a daily availability check with an AI phone call to the venue, and read the transcript afterward to see what was said.

08Use cases 5 to 7: Goals, feed, ideas

Use the agent's auto-built views, like goals, feed, and ideas, to stay on top of projects and discover uses you haven't thought of.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Meta Muse: Meta's free AI agent app, available on iOS, Android, Mac, and the web, that you sign into with a Meta or Facebook account.
Side chat: A separate, topic-specific conversation alongside Muse's main thread, useful for keeping scheduled tasks like briefings organized.
Scheduled task: A recurring instruction, such as a daily 7:30 a.m. report, that Muse runs automatically without being prompted again.
Connected app: A service like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Tasks, or OpenTable that you authorize Muse to read or act in.
AI receptionist: A voice AI that answers a business's phone, answers common questions, and books appointments during the call.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

00:20productMeta Muse app (iOS, Android, Mac, web)

03:52productGmail, Google Calendar, Google Tasks

07:20linkJoe Devoy's insurance savings post on X

08:20productReception.ai (ElevenLabs)

11:40productOpenTable

Quotables

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03:53

“Don't feel like you have to give it a lot of information upfront about who you are. It's going to figure that out as you start to use it.”

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16:35

“Pick the one task that annoys you or that you've been procrastinating on. Give it to Muse and see how it does.”

clear single action with no setup→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

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It's pretty insane that Metamuse, despite being such a powerful AI agent, is completely free to use. This can shop for you, manage your emails, save you money, and it can even make phone calls for you. So if you're not using Metamuse yet, you're leaving a lot on the table.

Because with the right setup, Muse can automate pretty much anything you throw at it. And it won't cost you a single dollar. In this video, I'll show you the best way to set up Metamuse and seven practical ways you can start using it today.

To get started, you'll want to download the Muse app. On your phone, just search for MetaMuse in the App Store or in Google Play. There's also a Mac app, or you can use Muse right in your browser.

With the app downloaded, you can sign in with your existing Meta or Facebook account, so you don't need a new login. It's currently only available in the US and Canada, but more countries are coming. And then this is Muse.

I'm showing you this on the desktop app because it's bigger and easier to see in a video. But on your phone, it's going to look exactly the same, except this left side menu bar will be at the bottom on your phone. The first thing you should do is give your Muse its own name and profile photo and have a little fun with this.

If you notice, up here is my avatar's name and their profile image. But you can change yours just by telling it down here in the chat what you want its name to be and what you want it to look like. For instance, you could tell it something like, help me come up with a new name for you.

I really like Pokemon, so something Pokemon related would be cool. Of course, you can tailor that to however or whatever it is that you are interested in or what kind of name you want to give it. Or if you have a specific name you want it to have, you can just tell it that is your name.

Your name is now Thalia or your name is now... muse bot whatever you want it to be here for example is the way i set up my muse i just told it the name that i wanted which was dahlia and then we brainstormed on the look first it came up with this look which i didn't love so it came up with these cute designs and then we were kind of going with an eevee look from wally some animal ones and then i realized i want mine to look like the default muse but just styled a little bit differently.

So we eventually settled on this look with the yellow beanie, and later on, I decided to change it to red. So go back and forth, brainstorm on the look a little bit, and then just have some fun with it. Once you have that set up, I wanna explain one of the things that makes Muse a little bit unique, because unlike a lot of other AI tools, this is centered around one.

main chat. The general idea is you can just chat with your muse the same way you would talk to someone or chat with someone on WhatsApp. So whenever you need to use it, you just come to this one single thread.

If you want though, there are side chats that you can use and these can help you stay a little bit more organized. I'll show you some good use cases for those later, but primarily you're just going to be using this one single thread. And as far as setup goes, that's all you need to do.

With a lot of other AI tools, I would recommend at this point to connect up the apps that you want your AI to have access to and ask the AI to ask questions about who you are. But with Muse, I actually wouldn't recommend any of that.

Once you start using it, it just figures out what you need. So don't make this complicated. Don't feel like you have to give it a lot of information upfront about who you are.

It's going to figure that out as you start to use it. So let's jump in now and we'll talk about the first use case. For this first use case, we're going to treat Muse as an executive assistant who automatically briefs us every morning on everything we need to be on top of for the day.

And this is a great use case for side chats. So to start a new side chat on the left side menu here, click on this plus icon, and now you have a new side chat open. And for this one, I'm going to use the dictation button because that's actually my favorite way of interacting with Muse.

It allows me just to yap away and then pulls in everything that I said and make sense of it. Hey, so every morning for me, I want you to go through my email inbox and through my calendar and Maybe we can set up, connect up a to -do list app.

Which ones can you connect with? And I'm gonna have you kind of go through all of that and give me a morning report of everything that's important that I need to stay on top of for the day. And I would love it if you could send that to me as some voice file so I can just listen to it.

Okay, so there's a couple of reasons I worded it like that, mainly because I wanted to show you that you don't need to know everything that Muse can do for you. Sometimes you can just ask, hey, can you do this? or what apps can you work with?

And it will just figure it out. Like here, I asked it, can you just create a voice file for me? And as you're gonna see in a couple of minutes, it can absolutely do that.

And I asked it, which apps can you connect up with it? And it's gonna tell me in one second which to -do list apps it actually works with. And now check this out.

It gave me a response, told me, yep, voice files are absolutely possible. And here's what it could recommend for different to -do list apps. And this is a suggestion, just connect up.

everything you have in Google, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Tasks, and it's going to take care of all of that. And this is what I was talking about before when I told you don't worry about setting things up ahead of time. As you need different things connected, it will tell you what it needs, and we'll walk you through how to connect it.

It's very easy. So let's go ahead and connect up my Gmail account. I'll click right here where it says connect.

Then, of course, I'll click through this, and then I'll log into my Gmail account and finish this process. Okay, once you're done connecting that one up, make sure you do the same process for the other apps that it needs access to. And then it has some questions here.

It says if you're on Outlook, you can use this, but I'll say I'll use Google since I've already done that. And then what other questions does it have for me? It says Google's now...

connected, both the calendar and tasks. So I'm gonna have this set up at 7 .30 a .m. every day, but I'm also gonna tell it to run one of these tasks right now so we can get an idea of what this looks like.

So go ahead and also run one of these right now so I get an idea of what this looks like. And then it's as simple as that. You can see here it is already set up.

This is the report for today. It tells me I have to go to the dentist later, and then I have a workout class. And besides that, in my email inbox, I have no important emails to look at.

And then these are the last things I have for the day on my Google Tasks. And if I want to listen to that, here's the audio file. Good afternoon, Paul.

First, your calendar. You have two things left today. At 3 o 'clock, the dentist for half an hour.

Then at 5 .30, a workout class. I think you get the idea. And I think it's really nice to listen to these morning reports while I'm getting ready in the morning so I don't have to be staring at my phone.

And yet by the end of it, I still have a good idea of what's going on for the day and I feel completely ready. The second use case I want to show you is something Muse is very good at, which is saving you money. And there are actually countless ways it can help you do that, but I'm going to target some of our biggest expenses.

Start by uploading your insurance policies to Meta and then ask it to find you a better rate with identical coverage or to look for ways to reduce your costs by removing coverage you possibly don't need. What's cool about this is that Muse is now going out and actually searching the web for better results. It has its own browser where it can navigate the web just like a human, and it's looking there for better policies.

This is exactly what Joe Devoy did on X, and you can see it saved him $3 ,500 a year. It not only found the policy, but it bought it and canceled his old policy. This is something he knew he was overpaying for.

But the process of going through it was so complicated that he gave up on it many times. And it doesn't just stop with insurance. It can also negotiate your bills.

My buddy Peter Yang asked Muse to look at his cable and phone bills, and it ended up saving him $800 a year. And then, of course, the next step of this is to actually automate those savings. So for this, I'll start a new side chat, and I'll tell Muse, every Saturday, I want you to go through my emails from the past week and look for places where you might be able to save me money.

If I'm currently paying for some subscription, see if there's a cheaper option. If I've paid for something from a store, see if they do price matching. If the price goes down, then check if the price went down.

It'll be your goal to save me as much money as possible. And just like before, it's going to set that up on an automation. You don't have to connect it up with Gmail again because you already did that before.

But now every week it's going to look for different ways that it can save you money. All automatically. And before we move on, let's take a quick moment to hear from the sponsor of today's video, Reception .ai.

Reception .ai is an AI receptionist from Eleven Labs. It answers your business's phone 24 -7, handles the common questions, and books appointments while the caller is still on the line. So let's say I run a small HVAC company.

My techs are out on the jobs all day, so calls... often go unanswered and those customers just end up calling someone else so i just paste my website url into reception .ai from that it learns my services and hours and then i can grab a phone number let's give it a test now thanks for calling meridian air how can i help you today yeah do you work on heat pumps and do you charge for estimates yes we work on heat pumps for service and repairs our diagnostic visit is 79 which comes okay so my furnace stopped working can someone come out tomorrow morning to take a look at it we can definitely have someone come out tomorrow morning It even books the visit on my Google Calendar before I even hang up.

You also get full control over the experience. Calls can ring to your team first if you want, and you can use Reception .ai as a backup if no one answers, or you can route all your calls to it. When it does pick up, every call comes with a summary and a transcript so you can see exactly what it told your customers.

You can try Reception .ai using the link in the description. And now back to the video. Use case number three is to use Muse as a personal shopper.

And it's not only really good at helping you make purchase decisions and doing research around that, but also finding you really good deals. So I'm back here inside my main chat, and I've been thinking about getting back into video games. So...

I want to ask Muse for help with this because I'm kind of out of the loop. I've been thinking about buying a new video game console. I currently have the Nintendo Switch One, but it feels a little old at this point.

I don't even know what's out now. I don't know which consoles have the best games. Can you kind of help lead me in the right direction?

And I don't want to spend more than like $900. Okay, so here it's telling me there's a new Nintendo Switch, there's a PlayStation 5, and there's an Xbox series. So if you're already into Nintendo, you may be happy with the Nintendo Switch 2.

But I'm going to tell it, I'm kind of getting sick of the Nintendo game because that's all I've been playing. So I kind of want something fresh and new. What do you mean by disc when you say PlayStation 5?

So here it's explaining what that means. There's basically a PS5 where you have to download everything digitally, or there's one where you can actually put in physical discs. And you probably want that one because then you can buy used games very easily.

So I think that's the route I'm gonna go with. Actually, I first wanna know what the games are. So I'll say, what games are available for the PS5 that are really popular?

And can you show me images of them so I get an idea of what the gameplay is like? And here we go. It describes what all the games are and then shows images of them.

So I'm pretty convinced this is the console I want. So let's now find a good deal on it. Can you find me a good deal on this?

Maybe on Facebook Marketplace, check if there's anything that's great. Or do you think on Black Friday, this is going to go down in price? Could you actually set up a schedule task?

So maybe every three days you check. for a good deal and then alert me when you find one and so now with all of that set up i don't have to constantly be hunting now for a great deal it's going to do that for me i could have it do it every day if i wanted to and then just let me know once it actually finds a good deal that's not too expensive all right let's move on to use case number four which are reservations specifically hard to get reservations so there's this restaurant in denver called Kizaki.

It's really hard to get a reservation here. Like right now, for the next week, there are no reservations. And like a week and a half from now, there is one time slot and it's 8 p .m.

at night. But other than that, there's nothing open. So I want something sooner.

I'm hoping to go to this restaurant this weekend. Luckily, Metamuse can handle this for me. So let's go over to Metamuse and I will tell it.

Hey, I need you to get a reservation for me for this weekend to this restaurant in Denver called Kazaki. They're on OpenTable, but I've also heard that there's no reservations. You can also call and ask for one.

Can you get on top of that and just like check every day? and try to get me whatever time slots open up. I don't even care what day it is this weekend or what time.

I just want to be able to go this weekend. So this is utilizing a bunch of the stuff I've already shown you that Muse can do, but it's also showing you something new, which are phone calls. Because Muse can actually make phone calls for you for things like this.

So of course, first thing I'll do is connect up OpenTable. now that's all set up so every single day it's going to check open table to see if there is an opening and if there isn't one it's going to actually call the restaurant on the phone there'll be an ai talking to the restaurant asking if there's any openings and if there is one it's going to make a reservation for me now you can't listen to those conversations but they do send you a transcript afterward so you can see exactly what was said Use case number five is to have Muse automatically track your goals for you.

And this one is built right into the app. If you click on the menu where it says goals, this is the goals section. And this is a list of things that you are working on with Muse or that you added yourself.

What's cool about this is that Muse creates a lot of these on its own based on what you chatted about. So right here, for instance, One of my goals is to purchase a PlayStation 5.

Why is that there? Because just a few minutes ago, I told Muse I wanted a PlayStation 5. And when that's done, I can just come here and check this off.

Or when I'm chatting with Muse and understands that I actually purchased one, it will check that off for me. You can also create your own goals down here. So if I have one related to my health, I would select this one.

This will open up a little side chat here. And I can get very specific. about what my goals are all this is totally optional but i find it really helpful it reminds me about the projects i started with muse so i actually follow up on them for use case number six we're gonna have muse create for us a personalized news feed and this is one that requires zero setup All you have to do is click in the menu where it says feed, and this will show you a feed that is curated for you by Muse.

As Muse learns more about you, it fills this up with things it thinks you'll find interesting. So it knows I'm really interested in AI agents. So here's a new story about AI agents.

It knows that I've been asking a lot of questions about the new iPhone Duo. So here's an article about that. It knows I use Gmail and often talk about AI automations and things like that.

So here's one about Gmail's AI inbox. So instead of scrolling through a bunch of news that isn't relevant to you, you get news picked around the things you actually care about. And the more you chat with Muse and use it, the more personalized these results are going to get.

And then finally, we have use case number seven. This is the one you're going to use when you're not sure what to use Muse for. If you click on the light bulb icon in the menu here, this is your idea section.

This is automatically generated for you, and it gives you a list of different things that you can use Muse for. And this is curated for you.

This isn't a generic list that is given to everyone. So recently I was looking at different e -ink readers. And here it suggests you might want to ask Muse to compare these three e -readers.

Just yesterday, I was telling Muse that I was considering going to CES 2027, which is an event in Las Vegas where you can look at all the tech that's coming out that year. And here it's saying before prices rise, you should probably start planning out this trip because the hotels are only gonna get more expensive. And every single one of these suggestions is tailored to me based on things I've chatted with Muse about.

So if you ever get stuck and you're not sure what to use Muse for, this is where you wanna come. So that's how you can outsource your life to Metamuse. Connect your apps, tell Muse what you need, and then hand off the chores that you keep putting off.

My advice is to start small. Pick the one task that annoys you or that you've been procrastinating on. give it to Muse and see how it does.

Once that works, you can add another and another. And since Muse is free, the only thing it really costs you is a few minutes to set up. Let me know in the comments down below what you end up automating with your Muse.

I would love to hear what you guys come up with. And then if you wanna see five more things Muse can do, like making podcasts and controlling your computer from your phone. click on this video right here.

That's a video I did recently about five incredible features inside of Metamuse. So if you want the full story on that, click on this video right here, and I'll see you over there in one second. Bye for now.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Meta's Muse agent costs nothing, yet it can shop, handle email, hunt for savings, and phone a restaurant for you. This walkthrough shows the lightest-touch setup and seven ways to put it to work.

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