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Local trades and home servicesAI agent (not named on air)

Hand a government form to an AI agent and spend 30 seconds on it

Picked and checked by Olga Pearson, host of The Practical AI Show · Published

Result

self-reported

An agent filled out and filed a Texas DBA on the Secretary of State site. Ten to fifteen minutes in, it asked for a card for the $25 fee, and the owner spent maybe 30 seconds on it.

Randy Lorensen runs Premium Cabinets, a cabinet company with 30-plus locations, and doesn’t code. On The Practical AI Show, Ep 61, he called this maybe his favorite thing he’s ever used AI for. He needed a DBA and didn’t want to fight the Texas Secretary of State site. So he told an agent to fill it out, answered its questions and went to work on another screen. His advice: ‘Tell it the outcome you want. Don’t tell it how.’

Who did it

Randy LorensenPremium Cabinets (30-plus locations)The Practical AI Show, Ep 61 (with Randy Lorensen) · Oct 16, 2026

Try it now

  1. Pick one government or vendor form you keep putting off (a DBA, a permit renewal, a sales-tax registration, a supplier application).
  2. Tell an agent that has a browser the outcome you want, not the steps: ‘File a DBA for [name] in [state].’
  3. Answer its questions as they come up, and go do other work while it fills in the form.
  4. Pay any fee yourself when it asks, and save the confirmation and receipt where you keep business records.
Copy-paste prompt
Outcome I want: [file an assumed name (DBA) for my business] on [the Texas Secretary of State site / your state’s site]. Business details: [legal name, address, owner, county]. Find the right form, fill it out, and ask me anything you don’t know. Stop before you submit or pay and show me a summary. I’ll enter the card for the fee myself. Then save the confirmation number and the PDF to [folder].

Make it run every week

A play works once. Turn it into a routine in three small steps:

  1. Run it once and check the result yourself.
  2. Give your AI a schedule. Tell it when to run this play (every week, or every month) and to message you with what it found before you act.
  3. Keep a log. One line per run: what was checked, anything flagged, what you did.

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What to watch out for

Told on air, not documented step by step. Read the summary before submitting, since a wrong legal name is a pain to fix. Disclosure: Practical AI is hosted by Olga Pearson (who runs AI Business Plays) and Chris Pearson (who builds PageMotor). Build it with Page: a site under your new business name, live the same day.

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