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Unclaimed property

5 public posts of somebody having an AI agent they text handle unclaimed property, from 5 people, on Muse and Instinct. 5 of them posted a figure, $800 to $2,182, each the author's own. None reports going wrong; people post successes.

Every state keeps a database of money owed to people who moved away, and the job is the same each time: search every state the person has lived in under every version of the name, then file the claim forms. Instinct's users posted it first, on 9 September, with $2,182 across five properties and the forms signed from a photograph of a passport; Muse's followed within the week, $800 in ten minutes, $954 from California in a day with $897 more for a wife, and $1,750 for a father-in-law in Florida. It is the clearest case on this site of an agent doing something the person could have done and never would have, and the figures are the largest on the ledger after insurance. What the record does not show is a claim that was refused, or how long a state took to pay.

Screenshot posted by LincolnMuseLincolnScreenshot posted by Matt Van HornInstinctMatt Van Horn

The figures, as posted

Every dollar figure somebody attached to one of these posts. The figures are theirs, unverified, and never added up here.

Muse

4 posts with a figure4 got back

Instinct

1 post with a figure1 got back

  1. $2,182got backunclaimed property owed to him, claims filedInstinctMatt Van Horn2026-09-09
  2. $2,120.95got backsix items in one tallyMusearmand2026-09-15inside Meta
  3. $1,750got backunclaimed property for a father-in-law, plus $120 a month off his billsMuseThe Money Educator2026-09-10
  4. $954got backfrom California in a day, and $897 more for his wifeMuseEric Allen2026-09-11
  5. $800got backunclaimed property across every state lived in, overMuseLincoln2026-09-10

The posts, by agent

Muse4

  1. A user says Muse searched the unclaimed-property database of every state he has lived in, found over $800 belonging to him, and filled in the claim forms in ten minutes, two of the claims above $250.

    Why it is notable

    The unclaimed-property job again, with the mechanism stated: every state of residence, forms filed. It is the errand nobody does for themselves and the one Muse's users report most, in the first week.

    Posted by a user by Lincoln (@WaitWhat): x.com, 2026-09-10. Added 2026-09-17.

  2. A user's father-in-law in Florida had Muse search unclaimed property and it found $1,750; it then reviewed his internet and phone bills, compared plans, and found another $120 a month. The author wishes it were available outside the US.

    Why it is notable

    Second-hand, about a relative, which is how the product reaches people who would not sign up for a beta themselves. Unclaimed property is now the most-repeated money sighting on Muse here, and every one of them is a user's figure.

    Posted by a user by The Money Educator (@moneyeducator): x.com, 2026-09-10. Added 2026-09-17.

  3. The same Meta employee's running tally, the morning after the IKEA return: $2,120.95 that Muse has recovered or saved for him, itemised as $300 a year negotiated off an AT&T bill, $192 of Amazon returns he had never got round to, $47 more returns on the way, $230 for the IKEA unit returned end to end, a $516 vet claim filed for his dog, and $836 of unclaimed property in his name. He asks whether to let it sell his car next month.

    Why it is notable

    It is the shape of entry Meta's $1,000 challenge asks for, a dollar total under the agent's name, and it comes from inside the company that set the challenge, so it is filed as a company account rather than a user's; the post does not say where he works. The list itself is worth having for what it counts: five of the six lines are money owed and chased, a bill, returns, a claim, unclaimed property, which is the same job the outside sightings of Instinct describe, and none of it is spending. The figures are his, not verified here.

    Posted by a user by armand (@armand_ruiz): x.com, 2026-09-15. Added 2026-09-15.

  4. In under 24 hours, by the user's own list: claimed $954 from California for him and $897 for his wife, analysed three life insurance policies with recommendations, pulled four new auto insurance quotes, drafted three local-press pitches for his wife's business, and cleaned his inbox, finding four gift card balances on the way.

    Why it is notable

    The second unclaimed-property claim on this site and the largest sum anyone has put on a single day with one of these agents, $1,851 in state money plus whatever the gift cards held. The list runs from the state's database to the inbox to four insurers, which is three of the site's task shapes in one afternoon, and the speaker is a former revenue chief with no stake in Meta.

    Posted by a user by Eric Allen (@ericallen99): x.com, 2026-09-11. Added 2026-09-11.

Instinct1

  1. iMessage

    A user asked Instinct to search every US state's unclaimed property database under his full name and every city he had lived in, then file whatever it found end to end. It came back with $2,182 owed to him, located a proof of his social security number, and signed the claim forms using a photograph of his passport for the signature.

    Why it is notable

    It is the only recorded case of one of these agents completing a piece of official paperwork rather than a convenience task, and it is the exact job an investor said the same week this category was ignoring in favour of dinner reservations. It also shows the price of that: to do it, the agent needed his identity documents and a signature, which is a long way past reading a calendar.

    Posted by a user by Matt Van Horn (@mvanhorn): x.com, 2026-09-09. Added 2026-09-09.

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