Canonical Categories
1. E-commerce Purchases
Automate retail purchases, especially for limited inventory or price-sensitive items.- Includes: BestBuy, Target, Shopify stores, and limited drops.
- Why Guppy: Handles inventory flickers, price changes, queues, and shipping constraints.
2. Reservations
Manage bookings for restaurants, spas, or co-working spaces.- Includes: OpenTable, Resy, and niche booking platforms.
- Why Guppy: Watches for cancellations and manages time-window availability.
3. Travel Bookings
Complex pricing and availability rules for flights, hotels, and car rentals.- Why Guppy: Handles seat/fare class availability and 24-hour cancellation policies.
4. Ticketing & Events
Extreme time pressure and adversarial commerce environments.- Includes: Concerts, sports, and conferences.
- Why Guppy: Navigates queues, captchas, and per-user limits.
5. SMB Procurement & Replenishment
Automated office supplies or raw material reordering.- Why Guppy: Supports Net-terms, invoice workflows, and prevents double orders.
6. Administrative & Appointments
Booking DMV slots, passport appointments, or campground reservations.- Why Guppy: Navigates ancient UIs, lotteries, and timed releases.
What Guppy Does NOT Handle
To maintain focus and reliability, Guppy is not currently designed for:- Negotiated Transactions: Enterprise sales or dynamic bargaining where there is no clear terminal condition.
- Subjective Content: Writing, design, or decisions without a binary success state.
- Autonomous Financial Trading: Stocks or derivatives (due to regulatory and market complexity).
The Meta-Category
Guppy executes any real-world action that can be expressed as: “When X becomes true, do Y safely.” It reduces complex workflows into:- Watch
- Wait
- Execute
- Recover
- Prove